- Friendship Centers of Emmet County (Council on Aging) offers in-home services on a donation basis to adults age 60 and older. Available programs include home delivered meals, homemaker, personal care and respite care. Call the COA at 347-3211.
- Northern Michigan Regional Hospital offers a monthly cardiovascular health screenings the first Thursday of every month at the Community Health Education Center (360 Connable Avenue in Petoskey) from 8-10 a.m. and 4-6 p.m. During these screenings, health professionals measure your height, weight, and body composition (body fat content), blood sugar and blood pressure and offer follow-up recommendations based on same-day screening results. This 15-minute screening could change your life. The cost is $20. No registration is necessary. For more information call HealthAccess at (800)248-6777.
Seniors' Health
People in the U.S. are living longer than ever before. Many seniors live active and healthy lives. But there's no getting around one thing: as we age, our bodies and minds change. There are things you can do to stay healthy and active as you age. Eating a balanced diet, keeping mind and body active, not smoking, getting regular checkups, and practicing safety habits at home and in the car will help you make the most of life.
- Seniors, substances and suicide: A silent epidemic? 11.17.08 Maybe there’s a problem, family members have often wondered. But maybe not; they’re getting older, and who has the right to tell them how to live their life?
- Advancements in treating macular degeneration showing clear results 11.17.08 Bebe Corts knew something was happening to her eyesight when she had to keep moving closer to the monitor during regular Bingo outings with a girlfriend.
- Elderly brace for more costly drug coverage in ’09 11.14.08 No matter what the problem, there are things you can do to help protect your vision from aging.
- Elderly fare well in open-heart surgery 11.11.08 Eighty-year-olds with clogged arteries or leaky heart valves used to be sent home with a pat on the arm from their doctors and pills to try to ease their symptoms. Now more are getting open-heart surgery, with remarkable survival rates rivaling those of m
- End of Life Issues 11.04.08 Sometimes, in spite of treatment, a condition or illness will cause death. In those cases, patients can decide what they do and do not want done.
- Medicare online tools help with prescription drug and health choices 10.14.08 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced that beneficiaries, their caregivers, and family members can begin to review 2009 Medicare prescription drug plan and health plan information online through the Medicare Prescription Drug
- Aging healthily not a mystery 09.25.08 Whether it’s fruitful or not, people tend to worry more about their health as they age. For some, the worrying can be productive, forcing them to overhaul a lifestyle that might not be healthy. For others, the worrying might only compound existing probl
- Health Quackery: Spotting Health Scams 08.15.08 Quacks — people who sell unproven remedies — have been around for years. Today they have more ways than ever to peddle their wares
- Depression Information 08.15.08 Being "down in the dumps" over a period of time is not a normal part of getting older. You do not need to suffer.
- Did You Know? 08.08.08 Roughly half of the American population will have a cataract by the age of 65.
- ‘Building Better Bones’ focuses on osteoporosis prevention 08.08.08 Osteoporosis can be a silent disease, one that causes thinning of the bones which then causes the bones to become fragile and more likely to fracture.
- Heart patients should be screened for depression 08.08.08 Depression is about three times more common in heart attack survivors and those hospitalized with heart problems than the general population, according to the recommendations published in the journal Circulation.
- Arthritis Advice 07.24.08 There are many kinds of arthritis, each with different symptoms and treatments.
- Alzheimer's Disease Fact Sheet 07.24.08 The most common form of dementia among older people is Alzheimer’s disease (AD), which initially involves the parts of the brain that control thought, memory, and language.
- Aging and Your Eyes 07.24.08 No matter what the problem, there are things you can do to help protect your vision from aging.
- State Budget Shortfalls Force Cuts In Home Care For Low-Income Elderly, People With Disabilities At least 15 states facing widening budget shortfalls are cutting funding for services for low-income elderly residents and people with disabilities, mostly for programs that allow low-income "shut-ins" to receive personal care in their own homes, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the
- Impact Of Aging Society To Be Examined By New MacArthur Network The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is creating a new inter-disciplinary research network to help America prepare for the challenges and opportunities posed by our aging society. In the middle of the next decade, the United States will become an aging society, one feature of which is that those over age 60 will outnumber those under age 15.
- Using The Ant To Model Human Aging Aging-we are all doing it. It is relentless and terminal. Auguries and alchemists, mendicants and magicians, philosophers and science fiction writers, researchers and plastic surgeons have employed all their various arts in the pursuits of "turning back the clock." Yet, we stand in modern times with a span of a century to our name, at most.
- More Than 2,000 New Medicines In Development For Older Americans More than 2,000 medicines for older Americans are currently being tested in clinical trials or are waiting for Food and Drug Administration approval, according to a new report released today by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). This latest PhRMA report on new, cutting-edge medicines in the research pipeline comes as a growing number of older Americans face severe health challenges and greater life expectancy.
- Growing Old In Good Health: Significant Disparities Between European Countries Although life expectancy is constantly increasing in the countries of the European Union, living longer is not always synonymous with ageing well and knowing to what age a person will live in good health remains a very different question. Jean-Marie Robine, Inserm research director, conducted research within the scope of the European Health Expectancy Monitoring Unit to answer this question.
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- AARP Health Page 08.04.08 A link to the AARP.org health section.
- Medline Plus: Seniors' Health 08.04.08 Links to senior health topics provided by Medline Plus
- USA.gov Health for Seniors 08.04.08 Links to government health information for seniors.
- NIH Quick Links - Senior's Health 08.04.08 Page of quick links on seniors' health topics.
