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By Alan O’Keeffe, Wednesday August 31 2011 From: The Evening Herald (herald.ie) An elderly woman unable to get out of a very hot bath died from severe burns. Evelyn Attwell (78) was trapped in the scalding bath at her home in Dublin as her daughter desperately tried to break down the locked bathroom door. [...] From the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Elderly people (that is, people aged 65 years and older) are more prone to heat stress than younger people for several reasons: Elderly people do not adjust as well as young people to sudden changes in temperature. They are more likely to have a chronic medical [...] Recent reports allege that security officials at a Florida airport forced a 95-year-old woman with cancer to remove her adult diaper as part of a security pat-down. While this is an extreme example, some medical equipment and assistive devices– such as pacemakers, wheelchairs and oxygen tanks – can hinder airport security screening procedures. In response to [...] Here is an example where a walk-in tub would help in a dangerous situation. From heraldexpress.co.uk. An elderly man was rescued by firefighters after locking himself in the bathroom at his home in Paignton, UK. He became stuck in the tub, but no one else in the property was able to help him out because [...] An estimated 44 million adults in the United States provide unpaid care to another adult. A 2004 study commissioned by the AARP and other organizations estimated that caregiving is more stressful on women, who make up more than six in 10 caregivers: 40 percent said caregiving stressed them at high levels, compared to just 26 [...] There was no thermo-static mixing valve! A company which runs a nursing home in Essex has today been fined after an elderly man was lowered into a bath filled with water possibly as hot as 72°C. Michael Ginn (72) was living at West House Nursing Home in St Vincent’s Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, Southend, when he suffered [...] The fear of falling can ironically lead to more falls among the elderly, according to new research. Gait disturbances, or difficulty walking as a result of old age, often have many causes, according to the researchers from the Neurological Hospital and Health Center of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Germany. These can include visual defects, [...] Why not? They’re also called “mother-in-law apartments” but they’ve come a long way. This beautiful cabin is produced by Emory Bakdwin, ZAI principle architect and 2009 Certified Aging-in-Place Specialist (CAPS) of the year. This new pre-fabricated ADU (Assisted Dwelling Unit), called a FabCab, is worth checking out. The FabCabs are available in 3 sizes: [...] (ARA) – An emerging health trend where a relatively simple illness leads to a number of physical and lifestyle changes is impacting seniors around the country, say immune system researchers from Embria Health Sciences, co-founders of the Nourish America Senior Health Project. They’ve dubbed this trend the Senior Sickness Snowball Effect, which impacts the overall [...] More research indicates that being overweight can be less harmful for the elderly than for younger people. In fact, dieting may not be helpful for the post-70 crowd. An Australian study published in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society tracked the number of deaths over 10 years in 9,200 people who were aged 70 [...] |
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