Senior Health Update, August, 2010

AAA Warman Home Care’s E-Update is intended to bring to you timely and useful articles and information at the click of the mouse. It is sent monthly in an effort to keep you apprised of what is happening across the healthcare continuum of care effecting hospital, hospice and rehabilitation social workers and case managers, as well as Assisted Living, Independent Living and Skilled Nursing facility executives. Warman understands that time is limited and has undertaken to share with you important industry information without your having to search for it.

  1. Reducing Injuries for Older Adults Using Motion Tracking Technology
  2. Adequate Zinc Eases Pneumonia in the Elderly
  3. Aiming for Earlier Detection of Melanoma
  4. Alzheimer’s or Just “Senior Moments”?
  5. New Defibrillator May Lead to Safer Heart Treatment

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1. Reducing Injuries for Older Adults Using Motion tracking Technology

Reducing senior injury with motion-tracking technology Exercise is an important part of recovering from an injury, illness or surgery, but many older adults lack the knowledge and guidance needed to properly perform exercises. University of Missouri researchers have developed technology to track exercise motions and provide feedback to patients to reduce the chances of future injuries and re-hospitalization...(Click for more)

2. Adequate Zinc Eases Pneumonia in the Elderly

Adequate zinc eases pneumonia in seniors A high proportion of nursing facility residents were found to have low serum (blood) zinc concentrations during an observational study funded by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the National Institute on Aging. The scientists found that those with normal blood zinc concentrations were about 50 percent less likely to develop pneumonia than those with low concentrations...(Click for more)

3. Aiming for Earlier Detection of Melanoma

Detecting melanoma earlier Scientists are reporting development of a substance to enhance the visibility of skin cancer cells during scans with an advanced medical imaging system that combines ultrasound and light. The hybrid scanner could enable doctors to detect melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer, in its earliest and most curable stages...(Click for more)

4. Alzheimer’s or Just “Senior Moments”?

Alzheimer's or senior moment? With the help of volunteers aged 18 to 89, UC Irvine researchers have identified for the first time in humans a long-hidden part of the brain called the perforant path. Scientists have struggled for decades to locate the tiny passage, which is believed to deteriorate gradually as part of normal aging and far more quickly due to Alzheimer's disease...(Click for more)

5. New Defibrillator May Lead to Safer Heart Treatment

Image from NEJM.org A new under-the-skin device is being tested that uses an electrical shock to interrupt possibly fatal heart rhythms, restoring a normal heartbeat for patients at high risk of sudden cardiac arrest... (Click for more)

AAA Warman Home Care is a family-owned Residential Service Agency which has been providing in-home health care services to thousands of clients for the past twenty years. Warman specializes in providing the highest quality of private duty, non-medical care and companionship for the elderly, those recuperating after hospitalization / rehabilitation, the terminally ill, disabled, alone or at-risk. It is our goal to assist our clients in living the most independent, healthy and comfortable lives in the privacy of their own homes.

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