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Bloomington Avenue Investments | There’s no need to fear dementia. The end of the epidemic is in sight

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Comfort First Assisted Living & Memory Care. There’s no need to fear dementia. The end of the epidemic is in sight. July 31, 2015. The risk of getting dementia is actually decreasing and the prospect of living to a fulfilled old age is better than ever before. Thursday 30 July 2015 23.18 EDT Last modified on Thursday 30 July 2015 23.19 EDT. It is not difficult to think of somebody really old who is still as sharp as a razor blade. That sole fact is scientific logic against the notion that old age tur...

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Bloomington Avenue Investments | The Strange Drinking Habits Of The Aging Affluent

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Comfort First Assisted Living & Memory Care. The Strange Drinking Habits Of The Aging Affluent. July 28, 2015. According to new research, there’s a quiet health concern among the affluent and otherwise healthy aging population: Heavy drinking. The new study. Perhaps the heavy drinking message isn’t reaching them? In any case, the researchers urge that healthy aging people be aware that drinking, too, contributes strongly to health, and that it can do a lot to reverse good health. Of people who were doing...

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Bloomington Avenue Investments | Why Falls Should Be Part Of The Doctor-Patient And National Conversation For Older Persons

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Comfort First Assisted Living & Memory Care. Why Falls Should Be Part Of The Doctor-Patient And National Conversation For Older Persons. July 28, 2015. It’s important to realize that falls among older persons, with their staggering physical, emotional as well as economic consequences, have the potential to impact not only patients, but all members of a family. In fact, The White House Conference on Aging. Held earlier this month, provides an ideal forum as a lead-in to this important topic. MD, Director,...

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Bloomington Avenue Investments | Why Senior Citizens Are Flocking to Uber

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Comfort First Assisted Living & Memory Care. Why Senior Citizens Are Flocking to Uber. July 26, 2015. I still remember the first senior citizen I picked up as an Uber driver. It’s a well known fact that the United States is seeing a dramatic shift in the age demographic of the population. Census data. The social impact of this aging demographic has been discussed ad nauseam but seniors have already started taking the matter of transportation into their own hands. Despite technical challenges and unfa...

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Bloomington Avenue Investments | BUILDING A BETTER DOCTOR’S VISIT THROUGH TELEMEDICINE

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Comfort First Assisted Living & Memory Care. BUILDING A BETTER DOCTOR’S VISIT THROUGH TELEMEDICINE. July 26, 2015. WHEN YOU’RE REALLY SICK, A VISIT TO THE DOCTOR IS DAUNTING, WHICH IS ONE REASON MEDICAL PROVIDERS ARE TURNING TO TELEMEDICINE. Arizona Palliative Home Care started over three years ago as a small, experimental program within the massive Hospice of the Valley. Which is why Arizona Palliative. From the outset, has used technology provided by Avizia. 8220;Before, we would go in once a month and...

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Bloomington Avenue Investments | The War on Doctors and the Destruction of Healthcare

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Comfort First Assisted Living & Memory Care. The War on Doctors and the Destruction of Healthcare. May 17, 2015. Walking the hospital corridors, it often amazes me many of the comments I overhear patients and others speaking about doctors. On this day, I took notice to the conversation of two elderly women who were none too happy with doctors, whom they stated only cared about their computers these days and not about their patients. And why is the government turning patients into data? These are historic...

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Bloomington Avenue Investments | Caring for a parent with Alzheimer’s Disease

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Comfort First Assisted Living & Memory Care. Caring for a parent with Alzheimer’s Disease. August 9, 2015. How to balance the demands, responsibilities and emotional strain of caregiving. Friends and family members of those with the Alzheimer’s provided an estimated 17.9 billion hours of unpaid care in 2014, according to a Alzheimer’s Association report. Aug 7, 2015 9:00 am EDT. The number of Americans with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Many people don’t realize how progressive the disease is, ...

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Bloomington Avenue Investments | How aging cripples the immune system

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Comfort First Assisted Living & Memory Care. How aging cripples the immune system. August 8, 2015. Aug 8, 2015. Thymus (credit: Wikimedia Commons). Aging cripples the production of new immune cells, decreasing the immune system’s response to vaccines and putting the elderly at risk of infection, but antioxidants in the diet may slow this damaging process. That’s a new finding by scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI),. Published in an open-access paper. The team found...

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Bloomington Avenue Investments | CEO of health care company charged in undercover fraud probe

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Comfort First Assisted Living & Memory Care. CEO of health care company charged in undercover fraud probe. August 7, 2015. By Patrick M. O’Connell. Feds arrest health care company CEO on charges of bilking Medicare of $1.2 million. Doctors and nurses made visit after visit to the elderly man’s home, even after watching him walk the dog, take a stroll down the street and repeatedly talk about visiting his grandkids. One former employee told federal agents that if documented services provided to patients d...

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Bloomington Avenue Investments | This 80 Year Old Man Has Not Taken A Bath In 60 Years. Just Wait Til You See Him… Whoa.

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Comfort First Assisted Living & Memory Care. This 80 Year Old Man Has Not Taken A Bath In 60 Years. Just Wait Til You See Him Whoa. August 1, 2015. Jun 30, 2015. This 80 year-old man looks like a character that stepped straight out of a Lord of the Rings movie. This Iranian man, Amoo Hadji, hasn’t bathed in over 60 years. It’s hard to tell what you’re looking at, but those are human hands. He blends in seamlessly with his surroundings. You can tell he lives a dirty, but simple, life. Not showering for ov...