Positive Lights'
Elder Care Digest
A free eMail News Monitor for the Elder Care Community
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The Elder Care Digest is a free email news service that monitors significant news about elder care issues for members of the elder care community. We monitor and summarize significant news from a wide variety of news sources.
We welcome relevant press releases and contributions from authors of articles, book reports and research material for this web site. Due to the vast quantity of information and news about elder care, priority will be given to reporting the good news that can be a positive aide in helping the elderly or disabled.
We also need volunteers to serve as news correspondents dealing with different aspects of elder care -- such as elder law, professional caretakers, geriatric medical news, federal and state Medicaid rules, Hospice and other end of life issues, financial planning and many other topics. For details contact Vernon Jacobs, Editor at vernjacobs@yahoo.com
As a service to those who have loved ones that need long term care, this web site also provides an extensive Internet portal to locate many types of legal and financial information that is likely to be useful to family members and the varied professionals in the long term care community. We welcome suggestions for links to articles and other public information relating to the care of the elderly and disabled.
Our free weekly email newsletter is distributed through the Yahoo Groups service. There is no cost or obligation to join and you can sign off easily at any time. For more details about the Elder Care News service, see About Elder Care Digest.
E-Mail Inquiries should be sent to
editor @ positivelights.org
Gregg Gimlin
President
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Elder Care Digest - June 14, 2006 |
Positive Lights, Inc. Elder Care Digest June 14, 2006 Note: Some of the links to stories in the digest may be removed by the time you attempt to review the information. We have no way to control how long any web site retains a story or news item. ELDER CARE AND ELDER RAGE: Jacqueline Marcell is baby boomer who discovered the problem of elder care the hard way. Both of her parents developed Alzheimer's and she had to stop her career to take care of them. From her experience, she wrote "Elder Rage" -- which has become a best seller. She has established a web site to promote her book, which is appropriately called http://www.elderrage.com/ Hers is a story about coping with parents who
Make unreasonable demands, wanting all of your time Are experiencing memory loss or dementia / Alzheimer’s Are obsessed with ill health, but refuse to see the doctor Have become depressed, manipulative, distrustful or hostile Refuse any mention of caregiving or elder care help
PITFALLS IN SELECTING A RETIREMENT CARE FACILITY: Here is a story about one person's problem with trying to find a retirement residence for her mother. It is worth reviewing as an aide to avoid the many pitfalls she encountered. ELDER FRAUD IS A GROWING "INDUSTRY": Elder law attorney Deb Speyer of Philadelphia says elder fraud is a major industry in America. And Carole Moore at Bankrate.com describes 9 common scams on the elderly. Vern Jacobs Editor Elder Care Digest Copyright, 2006, Positive Lights, Inc. All rights reserved www.positivelights.org
For Links to Previous Issues, go to
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Positivelights/
Volunteer Correspondents Wanted
Would you be able to help us locate one or two significant news stories about elder care each week? We need some help in locating significant news about elder care issues. Each correspondent will deal with one area of interest such as scams on the elderly, hospice, elder care facilities, conferences, medical developments, elder law, financing long term care and other related topics.
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