by Vladimire Herard, M.S. | Mar 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
Connecting supporters of aging in place with advocacy for the disabled is the wave of the future for senior long-term care, government agency chiefs said in a keynote speech at a conference on aging. It will take all the different segments of the senior long-term care...
by Vladimire Herard, M.S. | Feb 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
This is because Canada’s rural areas have residents with lower incomes, less education, less adequate housing, less access to rail and public transit services and lower quality of health care than in the country’s urban areas. “Our rural areas are elderly,” Novik...
by Vladimire Herard, M.S. | Feb 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
Greater improvement and coordination of government policy programs and community resources would improve the mental health of rural seniors in Canada, university researchers said during a conference on aging in Chicago. During their panel presentation titled “Aging...
by Vladimire Herard, M.S. | Feb 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
Falls and Loss of Mobility Bacsu added that loss of mobility and falls were other prime concerns. They reflected gender differences and involved no discussion of health care to resolve them. Both worsened respondents’ sense of social isolation, limited activities...
by Vladimire Herard, M.S. | Feb 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
A multi-prong strategy of solutions by government agencies, businesses and nonprofits would promote healthful and successful aging for seniors and protect the environment at the same time, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) representatives and pesticide control and...
by Vladimire Herard, M.S. | Feb 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
Twenty years since the passage of the Clean Air Act under President Richard Nixon in 1970, health benefits begin to manifest, Sykes said. In 1990, when the Act was re-authorized by President George H.W. Bush, clean air programs were found to prevent 205,000 premature...
by Vladimire Herard, M.S. | Feb 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
Comprehensive, Multi-Disciplinary, Sector-wide Solutions To combat the unhealthful aging practices of seniors and environmental pollution, government, business and nonprofits must unite to strategize over public policy to reduce exposure to poisonous chemicals,...
by Vladimire Herard, M.S. | Feb 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
Researchers from the Collaborative said the effects of air pollution on aging are also reflected in nutrition. Changes in agricultural practices and the food industry in terms of production, processing and distribution have changed how individuals consume food....
by Vladimire Herard, M.S. | Feb 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
Sykes explained that, in scientific research, a fine particle is 2.5 microns, a particle of flour is bigger and a grain of beach sand is blown up to 1,000 times of the size of the fine particle. Yet, despite its small size, the fine particle is powerful and possibly...
by Vladimire Herard, M.S. | Feb 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
Connections to Air Quality In a presentation titled “Aging Initiative: Protect Your Heart, Know Your AQI,” Sykes stressed that seniors and individuals in general ought to know their Air Quality Index, also known as AQI, as accessed on the EPA’s Air Now websites at...
