On the heel of the mortgage crisis and housing decline comes a kind of doom and gloom article on the Economist.com. The article discusses a new study by Dowell Myers and SungHo Ryu of the University of Southern California, which suggests that as the 78 million baby boomers retire, the rush to sell homes will […]

Posted on January 25th, 2008 by Emme Levine
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When many Americans hear the term “adult day care” they conjure up ideas of babysitting for the elderly. Adult day care is more than a glorified babysitting service. Many adult day care centers offer medication management and physical therapy, to nursing care, exercise and grooming. States generally require that adult day-care centers be registered or […]

Posted on January 16th, 2008 by Tabitha Grace Smith
Filed under: Adult Day Care, Care Facilities, Caregiving, Checklist, Eldercare, Working Caregivers | No Comments »

Last week we featured a story on how long-term care facilities were excessively using anti-psychotic drugs to sedate elders with Alzheimer’s and dementia. Despite warnings from the Food and Drug Administration that many of the types of antipsychotic drugs used increase the risk of injury, or even death, for elderly dementia sufferers. According to the […]

Posted on December 26th, 2007 by AGIS Staff
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