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Health websites are notoriously misleading. So we rated their reliability.
Posted on September 17, 2019 - Where do you get your health information? STAT reports that there’s a lot of unreliable and fraudulent information online—and those sites are getting a lot of traffic. How can consumers avoid being caught up in the growing “plague of health misinformation”?
Reducing the Fall Risk of a Loved One Who Has Dementia
Posted on September 12, 2019 - September 23 is Falls Prevention Awareness Day, a time to call attention to the serious problem of falls among older adults. Each year one-third of all older adults will fall, and many of them are seriously, even fatally, injured.
Parents Refuse To Talk About Getting Old? A Conversational Guide
Posted on September 10, 2019 - Forbes offers tips for nudging aging parents into having important planning conversations. One bit of advice: “If the situation is dire, engage a geriatric care manager.”
USC study finds older adults pay less attention to negative information
Posted on September 3, 2019 - An interesting study from USC demonstrates that seniors are better able to filter out negative thoughts.
Labor Day Focus: Working Caregivers Are Having a Tough Time of It
Posted on August 29, 2019 - This Labor Day, more workers in the U.S. than ever before are juggling two jobs—their paid work, and caring for a disabled spouse, their parents, or other older loved ones. Did we say two jobs? Make that three! According to new research from Baylor University, “A big and overwhelming consequence of America’s aging population is that so-called sandwiched caregivers, typically middle-aged, are caring for ailing parents while trying to work full-time and raise their own children.”
