Tag Archives: caregiver assistance

1. Medicare in Maine: learn what’s new in Medicare at free workshop

   Caroline Irwin from Coveside Senior Solutions will be discussing the latest in Medicare news at Home Instead’s March Educational Series at the Baxter Memorial Library in Gorham on Thursday, March 29, 2012, from 5-6pm. Some of Caroline’s discussion … Continue

2. Long Term Care Insurance in Maine: What you don’t know just might lose you a few hundred thousand dollars.

   By Nova Ewers, Beach Glass Transitions, LLC Patricia Nelson-Reade, R.N., CELA, recently gave a presentation on Long Term Care planning to  the Cumberland County Networking Group for Senior Service Providers at Sedgewood Commons in Falmouth, Maine. Today Patty … Continue

3. Living with Diabetes: help for diabetics in Maine

   A few facts: Diabetes affects 25.8 million people, or 8.3% of the U.S. population. Among U.S. residents aged 65 years and older, 10.9 million, or 26.9% had diabetes in 2010. That’s  an incredible number of people living … Continue

4. Incontinence: new hope with sacral nerve stimulation

   New Hope for People with Urinary and Bowel Incontinence By Roxanne Jones, Freelance writer specializing in health and medicine If you think that incontinence is a normal part of aging and something you just have to live … Continue

5. Eating for MS & Alzheimers: brain cell biology

   We see daily articles about eating various high-protein/low-carb or low-fat/low-calorie or other permutations of diet that will make us thinner, healthier or better looking. Check out this video, in which a doctor talks about the hunter-gatherer diet … Continue

6. The Dreaded Dead-of-Night Phone Call: Preparing Yourself and Your Parents for a Medical Emergency

   Answering the Call: Emergency Help for Seniors The midnight phone call. It’s something we all dread, first when we have teenagers, then when the kids go off to college and lives of their own, and finally when … Continue

7. Alzheimers: family assistance in diagnosis, and increased federal funding

   Dr. Laurel Coleman, a geriatric physician at Maine Medical Center, has been on CBS and quoted in other news outlets recently for her assertion that family members should learn the symptoms and be asked to help in the … Continue