07 Jul The Joy of Old Age. (No Kidding.) By Oliver Sacks
LAST night I dreamed about mercury — huge, shining globules of quicksilver rising and falling...
19 Jun Wii by Nintendo: An Effective Way For Elders To Exercise and Have Fun
Part of elder care is ensuring seniors are getting enough physical exercise, and using Wii is one great way to do this...
16 Mar Putting Seniors In Jail, and Criminals in Nursing Homes
Are criminals living a better life in jail than the seniors in nursing homes? My Elder looks into the issues of the quality of life of nursing home residents...
22 Feb Go to Sub-Standard Nursing Home, or Face Court Ordered Eviction
Are our seniors forced to stay in inferior nursing homes? My Elder shares one of its many challenging cases...
11 Nov Death Panels For New York State Elderly
New York State Cuts Home Health Care; Elders and Disabled Forced into Substandard Nursing Homes...
09 Sep Some Medicaid Home Care Cuts in New York Are Stopped by Court
Earlier this year, he received a notice saying that his help was being cut to one live-in aide per day, who would sleep through the night...
09 May Antipsychotic Drugs Called Hazardous for the Elderly
More than half of the antipsychotics paid for by the federal Medicare program in the first half of 2007 were “erroneous,” the audit found, costing the program $116 million for those six months. Read Article My Elder provides elder advocacy services to families. Talk to us about long-term planning, finding the right home for your loved ones, preventing crisis and abuse, and ensuring they receive the best care possible....
08 May Ten Tips for Communicating with an Alzheimer’s Patient
Ever feel like your loved one is ignoring you or that you just weren’t getting through to your loved one...
25 Feb Equality For Same-Sex Couples Under New York Medicaid
Since same-sex marriage is now legal, will same-sex married couples be able to enjoy Medicaid benefits other married couples enjoy when one enters a nursing home...
18 Sep Settlement Changes New York Housing Policy for the Mentally Ill
The settlement resolved a case that was filed in Brooklyn federal court in 2006 and that accused the state of violating the spirit of its own longstanding rules...
