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Manager Comment by deZengo on February 8, 2012 at 10:54am

Thank you khelil omrane - for your support & love of this community. 

Aging is going to happen!  How we prepare and deal with it makes all the difference!

Much Love & Light.

dZ

Comment by khelil omrane on February 8, 2012 at 7:39am

Winter and cold weather for the elderly
We here in February, large cold period. Older people are physically vulnerable and sensitive to cold, as also the hot dog days for example.
The change of season is a difficult one.
How to cope with winter?
As soon as cold weather arrives, many older people suffer from the hands, fingertips become sensitive to cold: the numbness due to poor circulation, chilblains, which is inflammation that can be at the heel, knee, on the nose ....
Respiratory diseases are increasing and the cold have reduced immune defenses. Colds are more common elsewhere I would give a little advice: it is better to use disposable paper handkerchiefs on, that cloth handkerchiefs which are real nest for germs!
Outside the elderly should therefore wear gloves, massaging hands to avoid it cools.
Against by attention, in case of frostbite or numbness (very painful) it is necessary to warm slowly to turn the venous return if aie aie aie!
The OA also reappears as soon as a change in weather arrives.
The influenza virus (great about the year 2010) is daunting for the elderly who are struggling to recover from the disease.
Namely that the flu vaccine is free to over 65's is a great way to protect themselves. Do not hesitate to get vaccinated!
Although protection from the cold!
At home, the unit is old, care must be taken regularly air to avoid poisoning risks related to a faulty heating.
Outside, the elderly must dress warmly as a function of temperature (gloves and hat if too cold).
The fight against the cold requires a great expenditure of energy, so food has an important, favor carbohydrates like bread, rice, pulses, etc. ..
Do not make too much of fat as some claim!
And of course continue to drink enough.
I would add, it takes for the elderly continues to walk, move, stretch to avoid become stiff, visiting with friends, get friends ...
Inactivity is not good for morale or good for physics!
We arrive in a festive season, Christmas and the first year, the mood is there, but sometimes as early as January the moral decline in some people. The days have shortened it generates depression due to this change of season.
As advice: plan activities, innovate other activities!
The new year should be a way to motivate other new things.
Take advantage of the slightest ray of sunshine to go out even if the desire is not there!
And you, what are your tips?

Comment by khelil omrane on February 3, 2012 at 2:22pm

US: Number of Aging Prisoners Soaring
Corrections Officials Ill-Prepared to Run Geriatric Facilities

JANUARY 27, 2012

Territorial Correctional Facility, Canon City, Colorado, on the yard.
© 2011 Jamie Fellner/Human Rights Watch
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US: Aging Behind Bars
Prisons were never designed to be geriatric facilities. Yet US corrections officials now operate old age homes behind bars.
Jamie Fellner, senior adviser to the US Program
(New York) – Aging men and women are the most rapidly growing group in US prisons, and prison officials are hard-pressed to provide them appropriate housing and medical care, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Because of their higher rates of illness and impairments, older prisoners incur medical costs that are three to nine times as high as those for younger prisoners.

The 104-page report, “Old Behind Bars: The Aging Prison Population in the United States,” includes new data Human Rights Watch developed from a variety of federal and state sources that document dramatic increases in the number of older US prisoners.

Human Rights Watch found that the number of sentenced state and federal prisoners age 65 or older grew at 94 times the rate of the overall prison population between 2007 and 2010. The number of sentenced prisoners age 55 or older grew at six times the rate of the overall prison population between 1995 and 2010.

“Prisons were never designed to be geriatric facilities,” said Jamie Fellner, senior adviser to the US Program at Human Rights Watch and author of the report. “Yet US corrections officials now operate old age homes behind bars.”

Long sentences mean that many current prisoners will not leave prison until they become extremely old, if at all. Human Rights Watch found that almost 1 in 10 state prisoners (9.6 percent) is serving a life sentence. An additional 11.2 percent have sentences longer than 20 years.

Human Rights Watch visited nine states and 20 prisons to interview prison officials, corrections and gerontology experts, and prisoners. Human Rights Watch found officials scrambling to respond to the needs and vulnerabilities of older prisoners. They are constrained, however, by straitened budgets, prison architecture not designed for common age-related disabilities, limited medical facilities and staff, lack of planning, lack of support from elected officials, and the press of day-to-day operations.

While serving time in prison can be hard for anyone, it is particularly challenging for the growing number of older prisoners who are frail, have mobility, hearing, and vision impairments, and are suffering chronic, disabling, and terminal illnesses or diminishing cognitive capacities, Human Rights Watch said.

Prison facilities, rules, and customs were created with younger inmates in mind, and they can pose special hardships for those who are well on in years. Walking a long distance to the dining hall, climbing up to a top bunk, or standing for count can be virtually impossible for some older prisoners. Incontinence and dementia impose their own burdens. In the prisons with high proportions of elderly prisoners visited for the report, Human Rights Watch found that staff behavior has had to adapt to the realities of aging bodies and minds.

“Prison staff who work with the elderly know it makes no sense to yell at a prisoner who doesn’t understand what they are saying,” Fellner said. “As one sergeant told me, staff have to give older prisoners ‘a little more leeway’ when it comes to enforcing the rules.”

The number of aging prisoners will continue to grow, Human Rights Watch found, unless there are changes to harsh “tough on crime” policies, such as long mandatory minimum sentences, increasing life sentences, and reduced opportunities for parole. Many older prisoners remain incarcerated even though they are too old and infirm to threaten public safety if released, Human Rights Watch said.

“How are justice and public safety served by the continued incarceration of men and women whose bodies and minds have been whittled away by age?” Fellner said.

Among its recommendations, Human Rights Watch urges state and federal officials to:

Review sentencing and release policies to determine which could be modified to reduce the growing population of older prisoners without risking public safety;
Develop comprehensive plans for housing, medical care, and programs for the current and projected populations of older prisoners; and
Modify prison rules that impose unnecessary hardship on older inmates.

Fact Sheet for “Old Behind Bars: The Aging Prison Population in the United States”

The Prison Population is Aging

The number of US state and federal prisoners age 65 or over grew at 94 times the rate of the total prison population between 2007 and 2010.
The number of prisoners age 65 or older increased by 63 percent. The total prison population increased by 0.7 percent. There are now 26,200 prisoners age 65 or older.
The number of US state and federal prisoners age 55 or older nearly quadrupled between 1995 and 2010, growing by 282 percent, while total number of prisoners grew by less than half, 42 percent.
There are now 124,400 prisoners age 55 or older.
As of 2010, 8 percent of the prisoner population was 55 or older, compared with 3 percent in 1995.
The proportion of prisoners age 55 and over varied among individual states from 4.2 percent in Connecticut to 9.9 percent in Oregon.
Fourteen percent of federal prisoners are age 51 or older.
Lengthy Sentences Propel Aging Prisoner Population

Of state prisoners age 51 or older, 40.6 percent have sentences ranging anywhere between more than 20 years to life.
One in ten state prisonersis serving a life sentence.
Fifteen percent of state prisoners age 61 or older have been in prison more than 20 years.
In New York,28 percent of those age 60 or over have been in prison continuously for 20 or more years.
Eleven percent of federal prisoners age 51 or older are serving sentences ranging from 30 years to life. There is no federal parole.
Much Higher Medical Expenditures for Older Prisoners

Depending on the state, medical expenditures for older prisoners are three to nine times as high as for other prisoners.
In Florida, the 16 percent of the prison population age 50 or over accounts for 40.1 percent of all episodes of medical care and 47.9 percent of all hospital days.
In Georgia, incarcerated people age 65 years or older had an average yearly medical cost of $8,565, compared with the average of $961 for those under 65.
In Michigan, the average annual health care cost for a prison inmate has been estimated at $5,801; the cost increases with their age, from $11,000 for those age 55-59 to $40,000 for those age 80 or older.
Number and proportion of older prisoners and their sentences: In addition to national statistics, the report contains data for 24 individual states with particularly detailed information for California, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
Medical Expenditures for Older Prisoners: The report contains data on prison medical expenditures in California, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Virginia, and Texas.
Prisons were never designed to be geriatric facilities. Yet US corrections officials now operate old age homes behind bars.

Comment by khelil omrane on January 4, 2012 at 7:04am

The power of older people affecting their mental

A study by the journal Neurology

Older people whose blood contains high levels of certain vitamins and omega 3 fatty acids have better mental and a better memory than eating foods with low nutritional value, according to a study published Wednesday, December 29, 2011.

The study published in the journal Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology also shows that older people consuming these vitamins and omega 3 fatty acids did not know to reduce the volume of their brain, a typical phenomenon observed in people with Alzheimer's.

This study, one of the first of its kind, specifically designed to measure blood levels of a wide range of nutrients instead of relying on the results of questionnaires on diet, less accurate and less reliable.

The authors of this paper, dated December 28, determined that high levels of vitamins B, C, D and E and omega 3, found primarily in fish, had a positive impact on the mental health and the rest of the body.

"This approach clearly shows the neurological and biological good and bad with the level of various nutrients in the blood," said Maret Traber, Linus Pauling Institute at the University of Oregon (Northwest), co-author of this research.

"The vitamins and nutrients you get from eating a wide variety of fruits, vegetables and fish can be measured using biomarkers blood," she notes. "I am convinced that these nutrients have great potential to protect the brain and make it work better," she said

Manager Comment by deZengo on January 3, 2012 at 3:51pm

Khelil Omrane - thank you for showing me / us that when there is a "will - there is a way!"  And age can be dealt with and managed if you have planned a little in advance and know what services are available.  I used to feel completely alone in the big ole universe - realized a while back, there is no alone as we are all in this together.  Thank you for your constant source of information - for those who want to keep our independence for as long as we can, it takes a little planning and creative moves ... but I think it can be done! 

dZ

Comment by khelil omrane on January 3, 2012 at 3:07pm

In Washington, senior citizens are organizing to prevent nursing home

"Make this give me"

The principle, which relies heavily on the dedication of volunteers, is to provide retirees with services such as transportation, shopping, small repairs, most free or at prices negotiated with professionals.

No question of retirement home for Mr. Gonzalez, a former translator of the Navy, handsome man with blue eyes and white hair, walking with difficulty "because of the knees." But there is no question for him to leave the house, full of art books and jazz records, he lived for 48 years in this charming neighborhood, with rows of Victorian houses. "I like my independence, having to be accountable to anyone," contains the statement of the AFP.

He is a member of Capitol Hill Village, a nonprofit association founded in 2007, one of 66 "villages" existing (120 are currently being established) in the United States, built on a model based in Boston in 2001. This is not to provide medical care but to help people stay in their homes, without the hassles made more complicated to resolve because of age, said Katie McDonough, director and one of only two employees full-time Association of Washington.

Registration costs $ 530 per year for one person, a home for 800, 100 or $ 200 for the lowest income. Subscriptions are roughly half the budget, supplemented by campaign donations.

The "village", as it is called its 360 members (260 households) of Capitol Hill, provides a hotline to which we can seek help from one of 215 volunteers to be taken to a physician, to mow his lawn or fill out paperwork.

The village also hosts conferences, theater outings, dinners, exercise classes, .. "I do not like group activities, but when you retire, you must meet other people. And I want to give me this," said a retired woman.
"In America today we can not count on any help in everything that is around the office," says another "it's very American to meet more and say, do we organize?" .

The U.S., like other countries, is faced with the arrival at the age of retirement of the first of the 78 million American "baby boomers" (born between 1946 and 1964). For Candace Baldwin, co-director of Village to Village Network, which coordinates the villages, the challenge is "huge".

According to the US Care, from 2011 and for 20 years, 10,000 people daily celebrate their 65 years. In 2030 one American in five will be over 65 years and over age 85 are four times more than today.
The movement of "villages" is "a logical step in this evolution," says Candace Baldwin, a way to "age in the neighborhood that interests more and more people."

FG with AFP
updated on 02/01/2012

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Comment by khelil omrane on January 2, 2012 at 6:23am

The power of older people affecting their mental
Posted: January 1, 2012 24:34 AM PST
Older people whose blood contains high levels of certain vitamins and omega 3 fatty acids have better memory and mental abilities than those eating foods with low nutritional value, according to a study published Wednesday, December 28 in the journal Neurology, the journal Medical American Academy of Neurology.

The study also shows that older people consuming these vitamins and omega 3 fatty acids did not know to reduce the volume of their brain, a typical phenomenon observed in people with Alzheimer's.

FRUITS, VEGETABLES AND FISH

This study, one of the first of its kind, specifically designed to measure blood levels of a wide range of nutrients instead of relying on the results of questionnaires on diet, less accurate and less reliable. The authors found that high levels of vitamins B, C, D and E and omega 3, found primarily in fish, had positive effects on mental health and the rest of the body.

"The vitamins and nutrients you get from eating a wide variety of fruits, vegetables and fish can be measured using biomarkers blood," she notes. "I am convinced that these nutrients have great potential to protect the brain and make it work better," said Maret Traber, Linus Pauling Institute at the University of Oregon.

The study also revealed that the small number of participants whose diet was rich in trans fatty acids, among other abundant in dairy products and fried foods, have performed less well on cognitive tests. In addition, the size of their brain was reduced further.

STOP THE BRAIN VOLUME REDUCTION

Overall, the 104 study subjects aged 87 years on average had a good nutritional diet, but 7% had a deficiency of vitamin B12 and 25% of vitamin D. The researchers tested a total of 30 biomarkers of nutrients in blood http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifle participants. In addition, 42 underwent an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) to measure the volume of their brains. "The results of this study are based on ordinary people eating different diets common in the United States," said Maret Traber.

"The results of this study have yet to be confirmed by further research but it is very exciting to think that it is possible for people to stop potentially reducing the volume of their brains and stay cognitively fit by adjusting their diet food, "notes Gene Bowman of the University of Oregon as well.
Source: www.lemonde.fr

Junk food seriously affects the brain
Posted: January 1, 2012 12:27 AM PST

We already knew that eating too many hamburgers, French fries, donuts, chips or pizza rich in saturated fatty acids was not really ideal for the line (or sperm quality, by the way). But U.S. researchers now associate junk food to Alzheimer's disease. People who eat lots of saturated fatty acids are more likely to experience a dégénaration brain tissue.

The study published in the journal Neurology has addressed hundreds of people over 65. The goal? Analysis of unknown factors on the risk of dementia. Scientists have observed that the brains of subjects who have significant levels of trans fatty acids (a type of saturated acid) in the blood has shrunk. A phenomenon that leads to poor memory, attention problems and language.

By cons, people who follow diets rich in vitamins B, C, D and E have larger brains and better cognitive performance. Omega 3 also have a positive influence on the brain, they improve our ability to solve problems, plan and perform multiple tasks simultaneously. (CD)
sources: www.7sur7.be

Comment by khelil omrane on December 27, 2011 at 6:47am

Eating less preserves the youth of the brain
Eating less preserves the youth of the brain in mice by releasing a molecule that plays an essential role in the functioning of brain cells, according to Italian research published Monday in the United States.
This molecule, called CREB1, activates many genes that are related to longevity and healthy brain, says Giovambattista Pani, Institute of General Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Sacred Heart Rome (Italy), lead author of the study.
"We hope to find a way to activate CREB1 with new drugs in order to keep the brain young without having to reduce calorie intake," he said in a statement.
This paper appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) dated December 19 to 23.
The effects of caloric restriction in these mice occur when the animal consumes only 70% of food eaten normally. Many experiments have shown that such a reduction of food prolongs life in laboratory animals.
In most cases, mice subjected to these experiences do not become obese and do not develop diabetes. In addition, they show greater cognitive abilities and memory.
These mice are also less aggressive and do not develop with age the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease or less severe forms than lehttp: / / www.blogger.com / img / blank.gif animals fed more.
CREB1 molecule is already known for its important role in regulating key functions of the brain such as memory, learning, anxiety control. Its benefits are reduced by aging.
The importance of this molecule to preserve the youthfulness of the brain in laboratory mice was also demonstrated by the fact that animals subjected to calorie reduction, but without the same CREB1 suffered brain damage in animals typical overfed or older people.
Source: www.cyberpresse.ca
A new molecule could prevent the progression of Alzheimer's disease
According to the World Health Organization, Alzheimer's disease is the fourth leading cause of death in developed countries, and with an aging global population, it is predicted that this would affect one person in 85 worldwide in 2050 - to unless a cure is found. Scientists from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies led by David Schubert, high hopes of a new molecule they have developed: the J147. It has improved the memory and prevented brain damage in mice and is a promising candidate for the first drug that can stop the progression of Alzheimer's disease in humans.
"The J147 improves memory in normal mice and mice Alzheimer's disease, protects the brain and loss of synaptic connections," said Schubert. "No drug on the market for Alzheimer's have these two properties. "The team says that J147 could be tested as a treatment for Alzheimer's in humans in the near future, thanks to his ability to protect nerve cells, it could also be effective in treating other neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and stroke (stroke).
Source: www.rtflash.fr

Comment by khelil omrane on December 27, 2011 at 6:46am

Hello,
Today we would like to warn you about the risks associated with alcohol.
In a healthy adult (and of course not in pregnant women or children), a small amount of liquor equivalent to no more than two glasses of wine (10cl) for women and for men by three day is not harmful to the arteries.
However excessive consumption of alcohol (more than 3 drinks per day for men and 2 women) raises blood pressure, increases the risk of high blood pressure and increases the risk of developing cardiovascular disease, such as accidents cerebrovascular (stroke) and myocardial infarction.
Finally, it has been shown recently that certain habits, such as "binge drinking" or hyper acute alcohol, that is to say, the consumption of at least five glasses of alcohol (at least 50g alcohol) on one occasion at least once a week increases the risk of serious coronary events.
So, remember to take care of you, limiting your alcohol intake if you drink!

Comment by khelil omrane on December 1, 2011 at 11:47am

 

7 billion people

According to the United Nations Organisation, the world's population has crossed the threshold of 7 billion people in late October
2011.

On the one billion world population in 1800 was seven times in two centuries. It could reach 10 billion by the end of the next century according to the projections.

One of the major demographic changes to come is the exceptional growth of the population of Africa, including North Africa, could more than quadruple in a century, from 800 million in 2000 to 3,600,000,000 in 2100 according to the UN medium scenario. While one in seven men now living in Africa, it will probably be one in four in 2050 and perhaps one in three in 2100.

The aging world population, in developing countries as in developed countries, indicates that health improves over the world. There are, worldwide, 650 million people aged 60 or over and it is anticipated that there will be 2 billion by 2050. It is essential to prepare health care providers and corporations to meet the needs of aging populations.

Caregivers must learn to provide care specific to the elderly and to prevent and manage chronic diseases associated with aging. We must also develop policies for sustainable long-term care, palliative care and develop services and an environment suitable for the elderly.

Two-thirds of the world population, 5.1 billion people living without health insurance, according to a UN report entitled "Social protection for a fair and inclusive globalization", published October 27

At the end of their meeting, November 5, members of the G20 declared "We reaffirm our commitment to work together and we have taken decisions aimed at reviving economic growth, create jobs, ensure financial stability, to promote the social integration and to make globalization work for people's needs. "

 

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