Animal studies support a cancer-promoting role for fat, and in humans, epidemiological data strongly suggest that dietary fat intake may be associated with incidence and mortality of cancers of the breast, colon, rectum, and prostate. There are also data implicating fat in cancers of the ovaries, uterus, pancreas, and lung, but the evidence is not as strong. There is still a debate as to whether it is total dietary fat, specific fats, or total calories that are involved in carcinogenesis. In any event, cancers of breast, colon, and prostate are highest in North America and western Europe and lowest in Asia, and are directly related to the intake of total fat in the diet even when adjusted for total calories. (more…)
Cancer occurrence rates in a period of time for a given population is expressed in various ways. The incidence rate is a direct mea ...
Potential benefits of T treatment in older men must be weighed against risks of adverse effects. In young hypogonadal men, physiolo ...
Not all body fat is equally bad for your health. It is widely known that body fat distribution is extremely important. Ther ...
Everybody wants to stay healthy at any age, but this is something we wanted to have over a lifetime. But you can still begin ap ...
A single drug can shrink or cure human breast, ovary, colon, bladder, brain, liver, and prostate tumors that have been transplanted ...
Elder maltreatment and abuse of the elderly is found in almost all countries of the world. According to the World Health Organization, elderly abuse is expected to continue to increase, particularly as many countries experience rapidly aging populations. Throughout the world, both elderly men and women are at high risk of abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Although older men are at risk of abuse in about the same proportion as women, elderly women are at higher risk of abuse, neglect, and exploitation in cultures where women are devalued. (more…)
Elderly abuse or elderly neglect can be put within the general category of violence that may be designed for different populati ...
The population of man aged over 65 will exceed the number of children under 5 years old in 2040, for the first time in history, ...
The economic status of older adults in the United States today is greatly improved, and there is much diversity of circumstance ...
Not only that the low birth rate leads directly to the aging population, a purely arithmetic on the number of young people, and ...
Spanning twenty-seven independent countries, the populations represent all possible situations in which people aging. The speed ...
Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) is the core daily personal care activities that are necessary in order for people to be able to live independently. Loss of mental functioning is measured by other standardized tests and referred to as cognitive impairment. Activities of Daily Livings are particularly important because along with cognitive impairment, and in some cases “medical necessity,” they are the mechanism used by the insurance industry to determine qualification for long-term care benefits and may also be used to determine qualification for admission to a nursing or assisted living home facility. (more…)
There are numerous basic Activities of Daily Living instruments that seek to quantify basic physical functions and obtain a numeric ...
In better facilities, the design of the building reflects the philosophy of promoting independence. Residents usually live either i ...
The proportion of elderly at any age without any chronic conditions is small, and disease can trigger a cascade of events res ...
The Costs of Senior Care Options When planning for our retirement, most of us allocate money into a 401K or another savings prog ...
The overarching goal of physical therapy rehabilitation is to return the individual to as close to the premorbid level of funct ...
The overarching goal of physical therapy rehabilitation is to return the individual to as close to the premorbid level of function as possible or, alternatively, to maximize a person’s current potential for function and maintain it as long as possible. This goal is achieved by promoting changes in the individual, by altering his or her physical health elderly or social environments, or by implementing a combination of both strategies. (more…)
The proportion of elderly at any age without any chronic conditions is small, and disease can trigger a cascade of events res ...
Beneficiaries of the Medicare program have three rehabilitation-related benefits established by federal statute: physical thera ...
There are numerous basic Activities of Daily Living instruments that seek to quantify basic physical functions and obtain a numeric ...
Older Person Care • Older persons should benefit from family and community based care and protection in accordance with e ...
An international consensus statement on physical activity, fitness and health (Bouchard et al 1994) identifies six areas affect ...
The principal reversible dementias are metabolic. Hypothyroidism and exposure to industrial or environmental toxins should be considered; iatrogenic cognitive impairment due to medications is a common example. Depending on the acuteness and intensity of the metabolic disturbance, the clinical presentation may be more similar to delirium than dementia. These dementias are reversible, but often not completely, depending on the length of exposure of the brain to the abnormal metabolic environment. (more…)
Unfortunately, many dementias are partially or completely biologically irreversible. However, as mentioned previously, it is im ...
It is always important in the treatment of dementia to have clear therapeutic goals established in partnership with the patient ...
There are a number of issues that must be considered in geriatric pain assessment. The major issues that merit attention are pr ...
Neuroimaging is widely used in the evaluation of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Traditionally, imaging in Alzheimer’s disease has be ...
Alzheimer’s disease is a concept in evolution; it is considered by most to be a degenerative brain disease that was first describe ...
Rheumatoid Arthritis affects approximately 1% of the world’s population. Rheumatoid Arthritis
is a chronic, multisystem, autoimmune, and inflammatory disorder that involves peripheral joints in a symmetric distribution. The potential of the synovial inflammation to cause cartilage damage and bone erosions and subsequent changes in joint integrity is the feature of the disease. (more…)
Fibromyalgia and myofascial pain (MP) are among the most common musculoskeletal disorders from which older adults suffer. These dis ...
Chronic diseases are not generally prevented by vaccines or cured by medication, nor do they just disappear. To a large degree, ...
Mounting evidence points to fibromyalgia as a heritable disorder. This evidence includes familial aggregation of fibromyalgia as we ...
Involuntary weight loss is the result of many chronic progressive diseases, often leading to diminished lean body mass, frailty, su ...
Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) is the core daily personal care activities that are necessary in order for people to be able to l ...
Australia’s health policy is funded and delivered by several levels of government and is supported by private health insurance arrangements. In place are systems for the delivery of health, income support, and housing and community services to support aging people. Medicare, the national health insurance scheme, is funded and administered by the Australian (commonwealth) government and provides coverage for a range of primary care services, including visits to medical practitioners. (more…)
New Zealand also initiated an Older Peoples Health Strategy with the following eight objectives: • Older people, their families ...
Adult Day Care Services Programs are day programs for adults care community groups that provide services outside during the day ...
Several efforts, both public and private, are helping assisted living become more affordable by lowering the cost of constructing a ...
Developers have built and marketed assisted living primarily for middle- to upper-income older persons—those able to pay $2,000 a m ...
As the United States people age, the focus on the number of looked for services will have to line up with the quality of the ca ...
For trained physicians, aging is often defined by the age-related diseases and disorders people experience as they grow older. In fact, aging is often portrayed as a disease that is amenable to treatment, just like any other elderly chronic diseases that physicians are trained to diagnose and treat. This is not an unexpected view of aging given the Western disease-oriented model of medical education. Examples of the conditions that anti-aging practitioners endeavor to treat or postpone include cardiovascular disease, cancer, sensory impairments, muscle and bone loss, loss of skin elasticity, and decline in sexual activity in elderly function. (more…)
HGH is the current buzz word in anti aging circles. It has gained wide media coverage and is being hailed as the ultimate in an ...
Many people believe that if you are aging and your face has some damage on them because of this, you can not reverse the aging ...
The prevalence of sexual dysfunction in women approaches 43%, and age is an important correlate. The underlying etiology of sexual ...
When approaching menopause or during post-menopause period, most women suffered from menopausal symptoms irritability like ...
The systemic benefits of exogenous Growth Hormone therapy in the healthy elderly remain unclear and controversial. Studies have ...
There are two basic considerations on how to prevent accidents and injuries in elderly. First of all, we should make our surroundings safe by removing or altering objects that are hazardous. And secondly, we should learn how to handle ourselves so as to reduce the likelihood of injury. (more…)
A lot of pretty painful back problems can be solved with relatively simple exercises. However, you need to diagnosis your pro ...
Prevention is the best cure for back pain. If I had practice proper lifting techniques and /or the box I lifted had been proper ...
There are many at home treatments for back pain. They all involve simple exercises that you can do to stretch the muscles and spine ...
Herniated disc - just the name brings shivers down my spine! More serious than a muscle strain it is one of the more common cau ...
Many people in this country suffer from lower back pain, including pain in lower left side of back. Because the pain is only on ...
It is difficult to see someone suffer when others have plenty. Civilized societies deplore that scenario and establish programs to lessen that suffering. That is the underlying basis of many government programs that provide economic security for the elderly; it makes good policy sense, which is why the Social Security program is strongly supported by a large majority of the population. (more…)
American aging population makes up a substantial social challenge. These social problems will increase significantly over the n ...
Not only that the low birth rate leads directly to the aging population, a purely arithmetic on the number of young people, and ...
Developers have built and marketed assisted living primarily for middle- to upper-income older persons—those able to pay $2,000 a m ...
Australia’s health policy is funded and delivered by several levels of government and is supported by private health insurance arra ...
Adult Day Care Services Programs are day programs for adults care community groups that provide services outside during the day ...