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Canada’s aging population will strain the health-care system
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:20:41 -0800
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Health care industry sees employment gains
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:05:13 -0800
WASHINGTON - The aging of America may be good for the labor market.A growing number of older people and rising health care spending are driving demand for workers from nursing aides to surgeons. While the economy lost 7.5 million positions during the r...
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Employment Rising as Health Care Eclipses Factories With Aging Americans
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:09:48 -0800
The aging of America may be good for the U.S. labor market.
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Aging Groups Say Health Reform Provisions Affecting Seniors Should Not Be Tied to Supreme Court's Ruling on Individual ...
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:06:16 -0800
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Six national aging groups filed a friend of the court brief with the Supreme Court last Friday saying that there are extensive provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) that are of "vital importance to the health and well-being of people 65 and older" and that Congress did not intend for any of them to be contingent on ...
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Employment gains as health care eclipses factories
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:44:28 -0800
Posted Feb. 05, 2012, at 7:36 p.m. WASHINGTON — The aging of America may be good for the labor market. A growing number of older people and rising health-care spending are driving demand for workers from nursing aides to surgeons.
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Groups prepare to care for aging baby boomers
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:02:05 -0800
The items in the geriatric sensitivity toolbox are basic: bulky gloves, dark, obstructed glasses and a pillbox full of M&Ms.
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New study to assess 3 simple, cost-effective strategies to promote healthy aging
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:43:54 -0800
( International Osteoporosis Foundation ) A new international study announced today by the University of Zurich hopes to provide definitive evidence that three effective, affordable and safe measures can be taken to significantly reduce the burden of chronic diseases in the elderly. The DO-HEALTH study will be Europe's largest healthy aging study. It expects to provide solid evidence for the ...
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Aging America creates demand for health professionals, strategies to meet it emerge
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:33:37 -0800
News outlets report on efforts to meet the nation's demand for health professionals -- whether in rural areas or in primary care specialties.
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Aging out of health care?
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:56:22 -0800
Ever-increasing costs prompt some doctors to ask if a patient can be too old for a lifesaving but expensive procedure More than 11 years ago, at age 89, Mary Cipolla, of Roselle, went through surgery for a rare type of pancreatic cancer, a "Hail Mary" procedure that removed parts of her stomach, pancreas, bile duct, gallbladder and small intestine — and saved her life.
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Cognitive problems common among non-demented elderly
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:44:11 -0800
Both subjective and objective cognitive impairment are highly common among non-demented elderly Swedes, with an overall prevalence of 39 percent and 25 percent respectively, according to a nationwide twin study by researchers at the Aging Research Center of Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. The study confirms higher education as a major protective factor and stresses the importance of environmental ...
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