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Source: AARP Bulletin, July 2010 Who says there’s no more creativity in American business? Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder named for German physician Alois Alzheimer, who first described it in 1906. (He forgot about it shortly thereafter. Kidding!) Alzheimer’s is a progressive and fatal brain disease. As many as 5.3 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s destroys brain cells, causing memory [...] Source: The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) The US Department of Health and Human Services is a broad agency. One of it’s charges is the administration of Medicare and Medicaid. In this time of financial unrest, one of the measures taken by the Department is to reduce the amount of reimbursement to [...] Source: BBC Health; National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) Roughly equivalent to our JCoHA (Joint Commission) here in the US, the NPSA has been taking notes on the administration of medications in English and Welsh Hospitals. Their findings? In every hospital in England and Wales, there were reports of patients not receiving their medications on time or [...] Source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention In 2004 a National Survey was conducted of Nursing homes in the U.S. Unfortunately this is the most recent comprehensive study of its type. Among the Data from the National Nursing Home Survey, 2004 was the following: In 2004, about 159,000 current U.S. nursing home residents (11%) had [...] |
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