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Featured Health IT Job: Support Technician – C.N.A.
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Support Technician – C.N.A. position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Arrowleaf and is in Vienna, IL. Here’s a description of the position: About Us When you join the Arrowleaf team, you are committing to a meaningful career where your work will make a difference for your neighbors throughout Southern Illinois and strengthen our region as a whole. You’ll have a chance to build well-being not just for the people you work with, but for yourself a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 8, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Arrowleaf Arrowleaf Jobs CNA Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs IL Jobs Job Seekers Support Technician Source Type: blogs

Geriatric foot care 101: How shoes can help reduce the risk of falls
If you did not know all that I know about feet, you would think geriatricians (doctors for patients 65+ years old) have a foot fetish. We are obsessed with feet, but in a good way. You see, feet play a big role in balance and preventing falls. We really care about our elder patients’ health, Read more… Geriatric foot care 101: How shoes can help reduce the risk of falls originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 7, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Geriatrics Source Type: blogs

Dramatically Improving Population Health Through Remote Patient Monitoring Data
The following is a guest article by Anish Sebastian, CEO and Co-Founder of Babyscripts. As winter storms sweep the country and complicate transportation, healthcare access becomes a front-and-center issue. Rural hospitals across the U.S. are shuttering their labor, delivery, and maternity wards, in many cases closing altogether. Pregnant women in remote rural areas are even more at risk this winter than previous years. Thirty-six percent of U.S. counties now fit the designation of “maternity care desert,” meaning they have no obstetric hospitals or birth centers and no obstetric providers. For hospitals that have manag...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Anish Sebastian Babyscripts Blood Pressure Data Collection Hypertension Maternal Care Maternal Mental Health Source Type: blogs

When the doctor ’ s advice isn ’ t enough: a caregiver ’ s perspective [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! In this episode, Nancie Wiseman Attwater discusses her husband Bill’s struggle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Despite the doctor’s advice to change his diet, Nancie realized that it was probably too late for that to make a difference. Instead, she focuses on making him comfortable Read more… When the doctor’s advice isn’t enough: a caregiver’s perspective [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 24, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Geriatrics Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 9th 2023
Fight Aging! publishes news and commentary relevant to the goal of ending all age-related disease, to be achieved by bringing the mechanisms of aging under the control of modern medicine. This weekly newsletter is sent to thousands of interested subscribers. To subscribe or unsubscribe from the newsletter, please visit: https://www.fightaging.org/newsletter/ Longevity Industry Consulting Services Reason, the founder of Fight Aging! and Repair Biotechnologies, offers strategic consulting services to investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in the longevity industry and its complexities. To find out m...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 8, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

The Stage is Set for More Rapid Progress Towards Human Longevity in the Next Decade
Today's popular science article is a tour of a few of the higher profile lines of research and development relevant to treating aging as a medical condition. The state of the field has changed greatly over the last decade, not least of these changes being a vast increase in the funding devoted to clinical translation of age-slowing and rejuvenation therapies. Cynically, I suspect that it is the funding that ensures that the popular science press takes a more respectful tone than they did ten years ago. It is much harder to advance (in writing!) a knee-jerk dismissal of a field of science when billions of dollars of funding...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 6, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs

Care aides in long-term care were traumatized during COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on long-term care in Canada. During the first two waves in 2020, over 80 percent of all Canadian COVID-19 deaths happened in long-term care homes. While vaccination and policy changes have helped to reduce the number of deaths, long-term care homes are still experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks and severe staffing shortages. Read more… Care aides in long-term care were traumatized during COVID-19 originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 4, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions COVID Geriatrics Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 2nd 2023
In conclusion, circulating monocytes in older adults exhibit increased expression of activation, adhesion, and migration markers, but decreased expression of co-inhibitory molecules. MERTK Inhibition Increases Bone Density via Increased Osteoblast Activity https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/12/mertk-inhibition-increases-bone-density-via-increased-osteoblast-activity/ Bone density results from the balance of constant activity on the part of osteoblasts and osteoclasts, the former building bone, the latter breaking it down. With advancing age, the balance of activity shifts to favor osteoclasts, pro...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 1, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

A Conservative View of Aging Research and Development of Treatments Targeting Mechanisms of Aging
A present, the conservative scientific viewpoint on aging is that significant progress has been made in understanding how to produce therapies that might target mechanisms of aging, but these are still very early days in both (a) understanding in detail how those mechanisms give rise to the observed outcomes in aging, and (b) the development of age-slowing and rejuvenating therapies. It is most likely the case that more could be accomplished than is presently being accomplished, given greater will and funding. But the creation of a new field of medicine is a slow process, proceeding incrementally, taking years to convince ...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 27, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 12th 2022
In conclusion, selective removal of senescent dermal fibroblasts can improve the skin aging phenotype, indicating that BPTES may be an effective novel therapeutic agent for skin aging. Non-Dividing Neurons Do In Fact Become Senescent, Impairing Brain Function https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/12/non-dividing-neurons-do-in-fact-become-senescent-impairing-brain-function/ Cellular senescence is generally thought of as a characteristic of replicating cells; it is an end state reached when telomeres, reduced in length with each cell division, become too short. This is followed by programmed cell death...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 11, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Adaptive Footwear Can Aid Comfort and Joint Health While Helping You Prevent Falls
Sponsored While the average person is unlikely to do high jumps or run marathons, even daily life can wear out our joints. Over time, this wear may become apparent through pain. Age aside, diseases...              Related Stories10 Things Not to Say to a Person Living with DementiaWhy Do Some People with Dementia Who Never Swore Use Coarse Language?Ways to Comfort and Minimize Grief for a Surviving Spouse with Dementia  (Source: Minding Our Elders)
Source: Minding Our Elders - December 9, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Tags: Caregiving Dementia care Disability @egosancares @silverts adaptive clothing Alzheimer's Muscular Dystrophy Source Type: blogs

Start walking to improve health and well-being
I just walked 120 km over five days on the South Downs Way along the southeast coast of the United Kingdom. It was a beautiful walk through the pastoral English countryside, culminating in the dramatic chalk cliffs near the coastal town of Eastbourne. While not a technically difficult walk, there were certainly enough hills to Read more… Start walking to improve health and well-being originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 8, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Geriatrics Source Type: blogs

Ways to Comfort and Minimize Grief for a Surviving Spouse with Dementia
Deciding whether to tell someone who is cognitively impaired that their spouse has died is a serious and often recurring struggle. Dementia and death are sad and challenging enough on their own, but when...              Related Stories10 Steps Toward Gratitude During Difficult Times10 Things Not to Say to a Person Living with DementiaFor Older Adults, Competence and Cognitive Capacity Override Age  (Source: Minding Our Elders)
Source: Minding Our Elders - December 8, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Tags: Alzheimer's Caregiving Death and dying Grief Death of a spouse dementia dementia and greif Source Type: blogs

The slow progression of aging: Let compassion reign
There is one guarantee in life: you will age, no matter how hard you try not to. Some age with more grace than others, and some age so quickly it’s astonishing. Aging can come quickly or slowly, it is not necessarily determined by your age but the whole dynamics of the life you have lived Read more… The slow progression of aging: Let compassion reign originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 7, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Geriatrics Source Type: blogs

Welcome To Our New Look!
Hello new readers and loyal subscribers! You may have seen a few days go bywithout new posts and/or perhaps you haven’t received your customary newsletter. …Or maybe your experience was seamless. I can always...                (Source: Minding Our Elders)
Source: Minding Our Elders - December 7, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Tags: Uncategorized #caregiving #NewBlogDomain #newlookcaregiving #mindingourelders Source Type: blogs