ELF News Archives
April 2007
- Swiss ill-prepared for aging workforce: Report -
The survey points out that by 2020 there will be over one-third more Swiss workers aged 50 to 64 than in 2000 and one-fifth fewer workers 30 to 44 years old. Workers aged 60 to 64 will be 50% higher. As early as 2010, workers older than 40 are expected to make up 55% of the Swiss workforce, according to the survey.
Mercer Report 04/30
- Avoiding a crisis in caregiving -
Careful planning eases stress of coping with aging parents
Richmond Times Dispatch 04/30
- NextSteps: Reverse mortgage one way to help retired couple -
Last week, we replied to an adult child of a retired couple in their late 60s. He was concerned that his parents -- on fixed incomes -- were having problems making ends meet, owing not only to rising costs of living but also to large homeowner's insurance payments, property taxes, life-insurance premiums and the like.
Post Gazette 04/30
- Enforce quality care for elders -
THE UNITED States has more than 16,000 nursing homes, caring on an average day for about 1.5 million patients. More than two-thirds of them are Medicaid or Medicare recipients, which gives the federal government a heavy responsibility to ensure that the homes are providing quality care. Unfortunately, the Department of Health and Human Services is failing in its duty to make sure that nursing homes correct their shortcomings and then continue to meet quality standards.
Boston News 04/30
- More seniors off to retirement homes -
CARING for the elderly is expensive business.
With costs rising every day and the working world becoming increasingly hectic for Jamaicans, many family members, who are faced with the task of tending to elderly relatives, are being forced to choose between putting these older family members in nursing homes or risk keeping them at home where regular (and sometimes round-the-clock) attendance to their needs is not guaranteed.
Jamaica Observer 04/30
- Age-restricted neighborhoods pop up across county -
‘‘Maybe if there was no market for age-restricted housing [we wouldn’t build], but there is ... The political wind is blowing and now people are saying [developers will] do anything not to pay our share.”
Gazette 04/28
- Nursing Home & Elder Abuse Information -
As the population of the United States ages, the demands placed on the medical system to care for the elderly are becoming overwhelming. There are approximately thirty-four million people over the age of 65. Nearly one in twenty will require some form of assisted living. Unfortunately, our senior citizens are becoming victims of intentional abuse and neglect within nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
Injury Board 04/28
- Healthy Old Europe -
Over the past generation, western Europe has fallen behind in its long-term economic competition with the United States. Since 1980, the United States' total gdp growth has outpaced that of the EU-15 (the 15 states that belonged to the European Union then) by an average of 0.8 percent per year. Social and economic policies are, of course, partly responsible for western Europe's economic deceleration. But demographic trends have also had a major influence. As is widely recognized and commonly bemoaned, the population of western Europe is steadily aging, and the region's birthrate, looking ever more anemic, is well below the replacement level. The specter haunting western Europe today is the prospect of inexorable demographic decline.
American Enterprise Institute 04/27
- Making the golden years precious -
The up and coming trend for independent senior housing in retirement villages, which offers an alternative for the high-end active adult community, has opened a new world for Michal Shvekey, clinical gerontologist and marketing manager...
JPost 04/27
- Humanizing Elder Care May Extend Patients' Lives -
Through an intensive comparative study of two nursing home units using contrasting approaches to dementia care for elders with severely disturbed behaviors, Central Michigan University professor of anthropology Athena McLean has found that "humanizing" approaches to dementia care may not only extend quality of life for patients, but also their length of life.
Science Medical 04/27
- Some Nursing Homes That Repeatedly Provide Low-Quality Care Subject To Minimal Penalties -
Nursing homes with repeated safety compliance problems usually face only minimal penalties from the federal government,...
Medical News Today 04/27
- Comprehensive elder care needed -
Nothing is to be gained by characterizing long-term care as an either-or choice, pitting nursing homes against in-home care...The important word is options. We need nursing homes for critical and acute care during rehabilitation and at the end of life. We need a wide range of in-home services for those who are moderately to severely impaired, but not in need of costly institutional care. And we need all sorts of living arrangements in between - from assisted living, to congregate homes, retirement communities - the gamut.
Enquirer 04/26
- Face the Costs of Long-Term Care -
No one wants to think about getting old, losing control of basic living skills or needing assistance 24/7. But with in-home care and nursing home costs soaring, the best time to prepare financially for this chapter of life is long before you get there.
Insurance News 04/26
- End of line for mandatory retirement -
New bill will prevent employers from forcing workers to retire at 65
The Province News 04/26
- Help Stop Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect Sunday May 6 -
Although one hopes that nursing homes operate at the highest level of safety and comfort, research consistently indicates that this is not true. One recent government report, Quality of Care in Nursing Homes, found an alarming increase in health and safety failures in the nation's nursing homes.
PRW 04/26
- Housing in short supply -
Loretta Urquidi, 64, wanted to help a lonely, elderly friend find a better place to live.
SVG Tribune 04/20
- Ethical Perspectives on Elder Care program -
They (Topics)include the Elderly and the Law, End Stage Dementia Care and Driving in Old Age: An Exploding Ethical Dilemma to name a few.
Wilkes News 04/20
- A good session for retirement sector -
Reimbursement boost in Legislature higher than expected; bills that help seniors pass
Spokane Journal 04/20
- Your Money: Elder Care -
Early action eases way when it's time to take care for parents' financial affairs..."Seventy million baby boomers are not educated about elder care because their parents never took care of their parents, so they didn't learn how,"
Inside Bay Area 04/18
- Big demand, short supply: caregivers for elderly needed -
Arizona faces a growing demand but a short supply of caregivers for the elderly, a problem that will get more attention now that the state has hired a person to find solutions.
Arizona Star 04/18
- Fewer nursing home services may be available to boomers if funding levels aren’t increased -
If the state continues to underfund nursing homes the baby-boomer generation can expect fewer available beds than will be needed...“Right now, state funding provides $18 a day less than needed to take care of residents,” Zwiers said. To provide residents with needed care, operations are funded by borrowing from the property (building and maintenance) fund. “You can only do that for so long and then other problems develop.”
Fergus Falls Journal 04/18
- Eldercare Issues a Growing Problem for Employers -
Aging with Grace, a geriatric caremanagement company that operates in several east coast states offers employers, benefits consultants and labor unions assistance in providing solutions to escalating costs associated with caregiver stress. Aging with Grace provides custom programs that include on-site educational programs that address elder caregiver stress and its impact on rising employer costs.
PR Web 04/11
- Beware of firms that overcharge for 'reverse mortgages' -
Recently, there has been a spate of publicity surrounding the practices of some mortgage lenders.
Many borrowers are feeling the pinch as interest rates on their variable rate mortgages rise, making it nearly impossible to keep up with the payments. As a result, foreclosures are on the increase.
Gloucester Times 04/11
- Caring for the elderly -
Any enterprise is bound to be hurt by human error. Nursing homes, because they serve a particularly fragile population, have high standards. That's why they have stringent procedures and protocols - and, at least theoretically, systems in place to ensure they are followed.
Ky Post 04/06
- Expense of elder care grows -
A key driver of nursing-home cost is labor -- the employees who staff the facilities,
Richmond Times Dispatch 04/06
- Free Internet Forum Addresses Complex Elder Care Questions -
In an effort to assist families facing complex questions regarding elder care, Elder Options of Texas (www.elderoptionsoftexas.com) an Internet based information and resource site for individuals 50+, announces the launching of a new senior forum moderated by industry experts. It's called simply "Ask a Question".
Fast Pitch Networking 04/06
- Elder care outrage -
Insurers deny 1 of 4 long-term care claims...financial troubles within this insurance business, combined with lax regulation, have resulted in thousands of elderly people being denied claims, many of them unfairly.
Star Tribune 04/03
- Growing need for senior housing drives development in south metro -
"Certainly, assisted living is the wave of the future, versus rehab..."People want larger, more homelike settings."
Star Tribune 04/03
- To IRS, Dad isn't a dependent -
Local accountants are fielding more questions from clients curious about whether helping their elderly relative pay for food, housing or medical expenses might land them a tax break.
Concord Monitor 04/02
- To Canadian REIT Buys U.S. Seniors Housing Portfolio for $347M -
"We are the largest owner and operator in Canada and the fifth largest in North America with growing presence in the U.S.,...
CPN On-line 04/02
- Many care homes lack state oversight -
The state office in charge of inspecting and investigating complaints against nearly 2,000 homes for the elderly is short-staffed and months behind in its inspections.
AZ Central 04/02