Four 80-year-old men finished a 100-mile race. Here’s how they did it.
WAPO - At a 100-mile race in Nevada earlier this month, the winner crossed the finish line in about 14 hours. But you had to wait another 15 hours for the real excitement to begin.
These Two Articles Make Me Mad
Senior care is crushingly expensive. Boomers aren’t ready.
WAPO - A wave of Americans has been reaching retirement age largely unprepared for the extraordinary costs of specialized care. These aging baby boomers — 73 million strong, the oldest of whom turn 77 this year — pose an unprecedented challenge to the U.S. economy, as individual families shoulder an increasingly ruinous financial burden with little help from stalemated policymakers in Washington.
Americans are knee-deep in medical debt. Most owe hospitals.
WAPO - For millions of Americans, a trip to the doctor’s office or hospital can be a prescription for debt. But who do the estimated 100 million people with medical debt owe?
A new analysis suggests bills for hospital care make up most medical debt in the United States — and that low-income people and people of color are disproportionately affected by overdue medical debt.
Observation - I have ranted enough about senior living. Sorry but I don’t get how residents paying 5k-10k a month still leaves the industry in distress. Activity directors have limited budgets and have to resort to bake sales for supplies just like teachers. Appalling because these assisted living organizations are often sitting atop a complicated maze of for-profit entities. Then to hear the industry perspective. Government should reimburse us more. And at the same time they complain as voters that government should not be funding all of the things that is does. Now on to hospitals. Prime example where I live. A large health system makes headlines for suing people. The same health system that is sitting on billions in reserves and uses its “non-profit” status to fundraise. Combine the top 10 salaries of this organization and you can run a small town. Insurers are no better. It’s called greed.
GRANNY CAMS AND CARE HOMES – SHOULD YOU? CAN YOU?
Sixty and Me - My latest article. We will run the full article in one month.
Sage Stream for Senior Living
Just Because This Was Funny
CNN - See pair of boxer dogs go crazy over inflatable T. rex in their backyard.
Understanding the Differences Between Nursing Homes and Assisted Living
US News - This is an updated article where I was cited as an expert source.
Great Site for Understanding Social Prescribing
http://cultureonprescription.org.uk
Using the arts as prescription is catching on. Here are more resources:
Why Some Doctors Are Prescribing Ballroom Dance or a Day at the Museum
Social Prescribing USA - advancing the US Movement, CHC Convening 2022
Older adults spending billions on home repairs to age in place
McKnight’s - Older homeowners spent over $84 billion on home improvement projects in 2021, an amount that is expected to grow significantly as baby boomers modify their homes in order to age in place. Those findings are part of a 2023 housing study released Thursday by Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Being ‘socially frail’ comes with health risks for older adults
CNN - Three sets of social circumstances, three levels of risk should the women experience a fall, bout of pneumonia or serious deterioration in health.
Ms. Green stays home most of the time and sometimes goes a week without seeing people. But she’s in frequent touch by phone with friends and relatives, and she takes a virtual class with a discussion group from a nearby college.
Ms. Smith also stays home but rarely talks to anyone. She has lost contact with friends, stopped going to church and spends most of her time watching TV.
Ms. Johnson has a wide circle of friends and a busy schedule. She walks with neighbors regularly, volunteers at a local school twice a week, goes to church and is in close touch with her children, who don’t live nearby.
More testing of nursing home staff would have reduced covid-19 deaths, study says
WAPO - Insufficient coronavirus testing of nursing home staff was a driver of waves of coronavirus infections and deaths of elderly residents in 2020, the most vulnerable time before vaccines became available, according to a study published Wednesday.
Observation - Yeah. No kidding. Oh right, it costs money to do that and staff time.
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