Yahoo! News: Seniors/Aging NewsSeniors/Aging NewsCaregivers Face Multiple Strains Tending Older Parents (HealthDay)- September 22, 2008 HealthDay - MONDAY, Sept. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Middle-aged adults who regularly help their elderly parents get by experience a drop in health and well-being in their own lives, a new study shows.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20080922/hl_hsn/... Institutionalized Medicaid recipients sue Florida (AP)- September 21, 2008 AP - Charles Todd Lee spent a lifetime going backstage at concerts, following politicians on the campaign trail and capturing iconic shots of everyone from Martin Luther King Jr. to Mick Jagger to Mickey Mantle. Today, he enjoys such freedom only in his dreams.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080921/ap_on_he... Medicare's Monthly Premium Won't Rise in 2009 (HealthDay)- September 20, 2008 HealthDay - FRIDAY, Sept. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Good news for millions of American seniors: Medicare's standard Part B monthly premium in 2009 will remain the same as in 2008, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said Friday.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20080920/hl_hsn/... Simple Blood Test Could Spot Alzheimer's Risk (HealthDay)- September 20, 2008 HealthDay - FRIDAY, Sept. 19 (HealthDay News) -- A simple blood test to identify people at risk for Alzheimer's disease may be close at hand, according to researchers at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20080920/hl_hsn/... Aggression among nursing home patients widespread (Reuters)- September 19, 2008 Reuters - Aggression among nursing home residents is extremely common, and often triggered by territorial issues, according to one of only a handful of studies to look at this issue.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080919/hl_nm/ag... Pain is common in Parkinson's disease (Reuters)- September 19, 2008 Reuters - Nearly 70 percent of patients with Parkinson's disease report pain, which is significantly higher than the frequency of pain in healthy controls, according to a brief report in the Archives of Neurology.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080919/hl_nm/pa... Medicare Advantage Plans Get Lion's Share of Insurers' Ad Dollars (HealthDay)- September 18, 2008 HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Sept. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Insurers last year placed three times more ads and spent twice as much money to promote more comprehensive Medicare Advantage plans than they did for stand-alone Medicare drug plans, according to a new study.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20080918/hl_hsn/... Statin use too low among elderly heart patients (Reuters)- September 16, 2008 Reuters - The use of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs by elderly patients with clogged arteries or "atherosclerosis" remains suboptimal despite improvements in the last 10 years, according to a study conducted in Canada.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080916/hl_nm/st... Changes in Seniors' Sleep Patterns Need Attention (HealthDay)- September 14, 2008 HealthDay - SATURDAY, Sept. 13 (HealthDay News) -- While it's normal for older people to have occasional sleep problems, seniors who experience sleep pattern changes that last for longer than two weeks should see a doctor, says Dr. Charles Cefalu, a member of the American Geriatrics Society.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20080914/hl_hsn/... Mediterranean Diet Cuts Death From Chronic Diseases (HealthDay)- September 13, 2008 HealthDay - FRIDAY, Sept. 12 (HealthDay News) -- People who eat a strict Mediterranean diet are at less risk of developing heart disease, cancer, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, Italian researchers report.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20080913/hl_hsn/... |