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POPSGuide for Caregivers: what you need to know to provide for your loved one
Good list of resources, with descriptions and links: Administration on Aging (aoa.gov): Provides caregivers and their parents information on various services including elder rights. Area Agency on Aging: This government program provides a national network of social services. See n4a.org (National Association of Area Agencies on Aging) or call 800-677-1116 for your local agency. Family Caregiver Alliance (caregiver.org): Offers programs at national, state and local levels to support caregivers. AARP (aarp.org): for people age 50 and older; provides numerous benefits to members. Eldercare Locator (eldercare.gov): A service of the U.S. Admin. on Aging; links caregivers with senior services. Medicare Rights (medicare rights.org): Independent source of health-care info and assistance for people with Medicare. National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (nhpco.org): Offers information on end-of-life issues and state-specific advance directives.
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POPSNew Interactive Television to Help Patients and Elderly In addition to monitoring patients' vital signs, an "interactive dosifier" feature creates reminders that pop up on the television so that people don't forget to take their medication. Patients can send messages to their doctor via the TV set also. Another innovative way to help elderly people remain in their homes instead of uprooting them and warehousing them in nursing homes and retirement centers. This gives me hope. I had planned to be set adrift on an ice floe when the time came that I could no longer live at home, but with global warming that plan may have to be scrapped. Perhaps this telemedicine will be a viable alternative.
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POPSRobotic baby harp seal used for therapy in Japanese nursing homes Robots to help care for the elderly and the disabled--good idea. My Spoon looks useful, but the whole idea of it, and the need for it, depresses the hell out of me. I guess that other people have more of a will to live than I do, and thus will welcome such a robotic spoon feeder. I'm happy for them, but this is not for me.
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