Balancing an Elder's Sense of Purpose with Their Safety
Photo credit Zubair Kahn
...As caregivers, we walk a thin line between keeping our loved ones safe and helping to preserve their independence. One of my first experiences with this concept occurred with my elderly neighbor and first care recipient. Joe was in his 80s and lived in his own home. He was completely deaf, so to communicate with each other, he would speak and I would write on a large legal pad. One day, I hurried into his house at my typical visiting time and immediately sensed that something was off. Joe would usually sit at his kitchen table waiting for me to arrive, but this time there was no sign of hi...
Source: Minding Our Elders - August 10, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Betrayal
Tweeteth Il Duce: “With Universal Mail-in Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE& FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote??? ” [sic]Steven Calabresi, a founder of the Federalist Society (the rightwing lawyers ’ outfit that’s sent Trump all his unqualified but young and ideologically pure judicial nominees), who voted for Trump and previously argued against his impeachment, referred to the tweet as “fascistic” and called it grounds for impeachment. There ’s exac...
Source: Surgeonsblog - August 5, 2020 Category: Surgery Authors: Sid Schwab Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 3rd 2020
In this study, we examined the effects of oxytocin on the Aβ-induced impairment of synaptic plasticity in mice.
To investigate the effect of oxytocin on synaptic plasticity, we prepared acute hippocampal slices for extracellular recording and assessed long-term potentiation (LTP) with perfusion of the Aβ active fragment (Aβ25-35) in the absence and presence of oxytocin. We found that oxytocin reversed the impairment of LTP induced by Aβ25-35 perfusion in the mouse hippocampus. These effects were blocked by pretreatment with the selective oxytocin receptor antagonist L-368,899. Furthermore, the treatment with the...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 2, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Age Related Hearing Loss is Caused by Damage to Hair Cells
Researchers here provide evidence for age-related deafness to be caused by the loss of viable hair cells in the inner ear, rather than other possible mechanisms. As pointed out, this is perhaps the best outcome for such a study, given the numerous approaches to hair cell regeneration or hair cell replacement that are underway in the scientific community. While it is interesting to compare this result with earlier data suggesting that hair cells survive in old individuals, but are disconnected from the brain, it nonetheless boosts the prospects for near term reversal of age-related hearing loss.
Scientists have dem...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 27, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Healthy headphone use: How loud and how long?
As our society and culture become more connected through technology, the use of headphones has increased. Headphones allow people to enjoy music and have conversations from anywhere at any time. The ease of headphone use and the mobility that they afford cannot be overstated. This is particularly true currently, as our society spends more time with virtual meetings and headphones during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the convenience of headphones and the increased utility, questions about safety of use have been raised. There is such a thing as healthy headphone use; you just need to know about safe sound levels and when t...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 22, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: James Naples, MD Tags: Hearing Loss Prevention Safety Source Type: blogs
Glove Interprets Sign Language in Near Real Time
People that have to use sign language to communicate with others can feel like foreigners in their own land. Very few random strangers can read sign language, but a new technology out of University of California, Los Angeles may make all of us be able to understand someone speaking using signs.
The UCLA team developed gloves that use stretchable sensors, that can detect when individual fingers are bent and the hand motions that are produced, to interpret each sign as it is displayed by the wearer.
“Our hope is that this opens up an easy way for people who use sign language to communicate directly with non-sign...
Source: Medgadget - July 6, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Informatics Rehab Source Type: blogs
7 Ways Successful People Handle Criticism
Criticism can come from people you know: your co-workers, your boss, your colleagues, and even your loved ones. It can also come from strangers, people commenting on social media, rude customers, a driver on the road, and so on.
Criticism is that look that precedes the silent treatment the wife gives you (and you probably deserve) when you forget her birthday.
The point is you can’t go through life without criticism.
You will often find criticism hard to ignore. Criticism attacks who you are, how you see yourself, and your sense of confidence. The way you choose to deal with criticism affects other areas of your...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - June 23, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Bernz JP Tags: featured happiness motivation self-improvement criticism pickthebrain relationships self improvement Source Type: blogs
CIVILITY Mask Lets People See Each Others ’ Faces During Pandemic
Since it seems that the virus that causes COVID-19 is going to be with us for a while, face masks will be around as well. As everyone who hasn’t worked in the OR before just noticed, not seeing the entirety of people’s faces influences how we interact with each other. Smiling, for example, completely loses the effect that it is meant to produce in others. And while this is a nuisance and discomfort for most people, those that are deaf or hard of hearing can’t see lip movement and therefore lose important information they use to communicate with others.
We’ve seen clear face masks created earl...
Source: Medgadget - June 22, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Public Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Some good stuff!
And some weirdness. BTW I ' m going to start doing Wednesday Bible study as well or we ' ll never get through this. Anyway Leviticus 19, as I foretold, contains some rules for daily life which for the most part conform with our present ethical culture. There are however a few that seem arbitrary or weird, and at least one that is definitely not good. This is the New Revised Standard Version.19 TheLord spoke to Moses, saying:2 Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them: You shall be holy, for I theLord your God am holy.3 You shall each revere your mother and father, and you shall ke...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 14, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Nurses, George Floyd, Racial Disparities, and the World We'd Like to See
At this unsettling time in the United States and around the world, racism is being confronted head-on by citizens who ' ve simply had enough of the status quo. The knowledge of deep racial disparities in healthcare are nothing new, and the understanding that people of color are treated more poorly within the American healthcare system is also an old story that never seems to change.But now, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and rampant global fear, economic insecurity, and a population tired of lip service to diversity and inclusion, millions are saying, " No more! "We nurses are part of the conversation because we ' re c...
Source: Digital Doorway - June 8, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: nurses Source Type: blogs
Gradual Hearing Loss “Reorganises” Brain’s Sensory Areas And Impairs Memory (In Mice)
By Emma Young
In 2011, a US-based study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that people with hearing loss were more likely to develop dementia. This alarming result prompted a number of follow-up studies, which have substantiated the link and further explored the risk. But the mechanism of how hearing loss raises this risk has not been clear.
Now a new study, by a team at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany, offers an explanation. The researchers found that gradual hearing loss (the sort commonly experienced into older age) “profoundly” alters normal processes in the brain’s cortex and h...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 27, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Brain Perception Source Type: blogs
Adverse effects of hydroxychloroquine
In case you were ever stupid enough to follow Trump’s lead you would have already injected ultraviolets in your eyeballs by now to save you from Covid and maybe bathed in Domestos or sulfuric acid or both! Anyway, his latest bullshine claim is that he’s been taking the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine to keep Covid at bay.
Well, for starters there is no evidence that this drug acts as a prophylactic against infection with SARS CoV-2 or indeed any pathogen other than the causative agent of otherwise drug-resistant malaria. It’s primary use is in treating lupus. There was some testing done weeks ago to...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - May 19, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Health and Medicine Source Type: blogs
A pediatrician ’s silver linings during the pandemic
A few weeks ago, while I was still seeing a full schedule of patients and the crisis was just beginning, I asked myself,“How can I reach this little person on the exam table in front of me?” It was our first meeting. He was deaf and partially blind, neither of those affecting his spirit […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 17, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/lauretta-stombaugh" rel="tag" > Lauretta Stombaugh, DO < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Stores That Reopen Face ADA Compliance Puzzles
Walter OlsonAround much of the country retail stores and small businesses are struggling with how to reopen, or carry on operations online, consistent with public health recommendations on social distancing and protection of customers and workers. And as they do they find their task complicated in many ways by the requirements of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) and related state laws. So I conclude from anadvice column by Minh Vu and John Egan of the law firm Seyfarth Shaw. Some questions:*Can you make customers wait outside, and if so how? Under one format commonly approved for reopening, stores m...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 14, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
After COVID-19, What Next? A Recovery Blueprint for Health System Leaders
By JAMES GARDNER
Is the beginning of the end in sight? Perhaps. After much stress and strain, many experts believe we’re seeing early signs of a COVID-19 plateau in some states and cities. Everything could change tomorrow, but healthcare leaders should be preparing now to reopen their shuttered operating rooms and get back to business.
When restrictions loosen, lost days and weeks could have dire implications for health systems already weakened by months of deferred and canceled elective procedures. These surgeries — joint replacements, tumor biopsies, gallbladder removals, and cosmetic procedure...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy health system James Gardner Source Type: blogs
