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Stories tagged with: elderly
Senior Parents Living Alone
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Baby boomers find ways to delay going into nursing homes; medical alerts.
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Tags: elderly, aged, nursing home, independent living, medical ale
Finding Care For Your Elderly Parents | Able Mart
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Alternatives to nursing homes for the elderly.
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Tags: nursing home, elderly, Disabled, disability, senior
Investigators: Elderly Abused In Nearly One-Third Of Nursing Homes.
http://findthetruthaboutanyone.blogspot.com/2007/11/nursing-...
Some 5,283 nursing homes were cited for abuse violations, according to a review of state inspection records requested by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif. These homes were cited for nearly 9,000 abuse violations from January 1999 to January 2001.
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Older Americans Celebrate Thanksgiving and Other Holidays at Home
http://www.nursing-homes.com/pages/older-americans-celebrate...
Thanks to Homecare, millions of older Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving this year at home. November is National Homecare Month. The American Association for Homecare is reminding families and policymakers that medical equipment and therapies provided in the home offer clinically sound, cost-effective care in a patient-preferred setting.
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Tags: thanksgiving, older americans, elderly
Mail Carriers Saving Lives of Elderly
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The National Association of Letter Carriers said there have been hundreds of cases nationwide of homebound people being saved because their letter carriers noticed mail piling up and alerted someone.
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