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Tampa, Florida – Looking more like a grandpa than a wanted bank robber, 73-year-old James Bruce toddled front and center at Orient Road Jail. Bruce was arrested on Thursday after detectives said he was robbing banks to pay his mortgage. According to a criminal report, Bruce walked into three different banks in south Tampa. Each [...] Calvin, Rebecca, and Jim have always informed, guided, and helped us in many ways — your employees are outstanding in their customer service skills and their kindness to us! You even resolved the issue of getting approval of our state plumbing board for your nationally tested product! Well done, that should benefit other Massachusetts customers! [...] Shirley Madsen, who turned 90 Thursday, survived three days trapped in her bathtub by drinking water from a rubber duck. “I have never been so terrified in my life,” Madsen, of Walnut Creek, said of her harrowing experience. Madsen’s daughter, Diane Weber, of Walnut Creek, said doctors at John Muir Medical Center-Walnut Creek Campus were [...] It can be hard to bathe when you are elderly disabled, or overweight. People often buy bath aids such as chairs, wall bars, bathtub rails and showers that attach to the tub spout. However, these bath aids do not address the real issues of safety: step-in height, reach for the bath controls and safe entry [...] Every morning at 10 a.m. sharp, Juanita Wood, 87, taps “okay” on a screen to start up a device that takes her blood pressure and transmits the information to her medical clinic. At 10:30 a.m., her husband, Arthur, 91, touch-starts his own device, neatly lined up next to hers. The machine calculates his blood pressure [...] Falls among elderly people are significantly associated with several classes of drugs, according to a study by the University of British Columbia. The study, published Nov. 23 in the Archives of Internal Medicine, provides the latest quantitative evidence of the impact of certain classes of medication on falling among seniors. Falling and fall-related complications such [...] Ker Than for National Geographic News Who would have thought? Using search engines may help stave off dementia and memory loss, a new brain-scan study suggests. Scientists found that middle-aged and older adults with little Internet experience showed increased activity in key brain regions after surfing the Web for an hour a day for just [...] The “Big Idea” is finally making its way through Medicare in Florida. Instead of putting seniors in nursing homes because they need care, the care is being brought to them, at home. They don’t need doctors or nurses, but they do need assistance with meal preparation, medication, cleaning, and so on. And Medicare is paying [...] Thirty-four million Americans provide care for a frail, aging family member. This number is likely to increase dramatically as the nations seventy-seven million Baby Boomers age. As a result, millions are and will be grappling with the question: how will we respond when a loved one grows too fragile to live alone? In WHEN [...] Remember all those care packages your parents sent you to heal a broken heart, feed you at college or make your birthday memorable? Now children/grandchildren can send aging relatives a care package of their own with the Senior Swine Flu Prevention Package. Some senior groups complain senior citizens did not make the government’s priority list [...] |
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