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10/12/2022

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09/23/2021

For decades it has been used to treat divers with the ‘bends’ — potentially deadly nitrogen bubbles that can form in the blood when surfacing quickly from deep water. But pressurised chambers that deliver 100 per cent oxygen to the body can also bump-start the healing process, and they are now being used for a wide range of conditions from diabetic ulcers to damage caused by cancer radiation treatment. It’s even being investigated as a way to reverse ageing.

Research this month suggests that hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), as it is medically known, could be a treatment for dementia.

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09/25/2020

Evidence, laughing is healthy.

Here, we list out the various benefits of laughing with special reference to seniors. Laughing helps them to live a joyful and happy life.

09/25/2020

For health's sake, laugh out loud!

Here, we share some of the useful tips that come helpful when traveling with elderly loved ones. Let’s have a look at them. Click or Call (215) 659-4034.

09/25/2020

Benefits of Laughing

Lowers Blood Pressure
Reduces Aggression
Combat Memory Loss
Cardiac Care
Benefits of Laughing
Cope with Life Issues
Boosts Immune System
Fights Depression
Relieves Pain
Promotes Physical Fitness
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Here, we list out the various benefits of laughing with special reference to seniors. Laughing helps them to live a joyful and happy life.

09/21/2020

Finding the right caregiver to take care of your loved ones is not always an easy task. It is very essential to choose right caregivers to ensure safety and health of the elders. When you have decided that your elderly parents need a little help to manage at home or perform daily activities, you should find a caregiver that takes care of their needs in the best manner. Here, we list the essential questions that you should ask the potential caregivers.

These questions help you to choose right caregivers for the job.
1) Ask about their care-giving experience.
2) What draws them to this profession?
3) Have they ever worked with senior who was difficult to taken care of?
4) What’s their approach: one plan for all or customized programs?
5) Ask about their availability
6) Do they help with light housekeeping as well?
7) Have they cared for someone with conditions relatable to your loved one?
8) Ask for their background check
9) What about references?
10) Ask for specific issues
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When you're hiring home care services for your elders, crucial to choose the right caregivers. Here are the critical questions to ask them before choosing!

09/18/2020

Senior Care for Diabetic

Home care allows seniors to live independently while giving their families peace of mind. It becomes more essential in the case of adults with diabetes. Diabetic seniors need such home care services even more as they may find it difficult to manage all of their health needs owing to the complications of this disease. The older individual with diabetes is more likely to have other health problems. The combination of advanced age with diabetes requires senior care for a diabetic.
Proper Monitoring

Though there is currently no treatment for curing diabetes, but it can be controlled with the right medications and healthy eating habits. It is essential to track the senior’s blood sugar levels. But if the seniors themselves track it, the too high or too low levels can affect brain function. A home care health professional gives peace of mind to seniors with diabetes. They assist them with medication monitoring and can get help in any situation. Help-U-Care

The importance of Senior Care for Diabetic Elders needs to be better-taken care of by experienced care elders seniors to live a happy & healthy life.

09/17/2020

Compassionate Care

The senior care services give families the confidence and peace that their aging loved ones are comfortable at home. With home care, you can get almost any type of assistance you want or need. It may vary from simple companion care to more complex personal care needs.

Emotional Support

In addition to providing assistance with activities of daily living, the professional caregivers offer the required emotional support to the elders. They make sure that elders do not feel lonely and always keep them engaged so as to lead a positive and healthy life. Living alone for a significant portion of their life leads to isolation and even depression. So, the caregivers work to provide emotional support to the seniors and encourage them to live happily.

Proper Health

When your loved one is aging, it is essential to ensure that they receive proper nutrition, medication and rest. The caregivers help seniors to maintain their level of happiness for a long period of time. They help to improve the seniors’ ability to walk or move around, get in and out of bed etc.

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As one gets older, senior care services help them to maintain their independence and freedom while assisting them with their daily activities.

09/15/2020

Staying and feeling healthy is important at any age. As our elders grow older, a number of major physical and mental changes occur and it is vital to handle and grow from these changes to stay healthy. These tips can help elders maintain the physical and emotional health of their fullest. Let’s check them out and help improve quality of life for seniors. Help-U-Care

Useful tips that help to improve quality of life for seniors. These small tips can bring a significant positive change in their lives. Call (215) 659-4034.

08/31/2020

August 31, 2020 - A team from Stevens Institute of Technology has developed an artificial intelligence tool that can diagnose Alzheimer’s disease with more than 95 percent accuracy, eliminating the need for expensive scans or in-person testing.

In addition, the algorithm is also able to explain its conclusions, enabling human experts to check the accuracy of its diagnosis.

Alzheimer’s disease can impact a person’s use of language, the researchers noted. For example, people with Alzheimer’s tend to replace nouns with pronouns, and they can express themselves in a very roundabout, awkward way.

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The team designed an explainable AI tool that uses attention mechanisms and a convolutional neural network to accurately identify well-known signs of Alzheimer’s, as well as subtle linguistic patterns that were previously overlooked. Help-U-Care Home care services

An artificial intelligence algorithm can detect subtle differences in the way people with Alzheimer's use language.

08/20/2020

Published in the journal Science, a new study has shed light on a cellular process that occurs in the retinas of people with diabetic retinopathy. This discovery could lead to the development of a treatment for this serious complication of diabetes.

The research was led by Dr. Przemyslaw (Mike) Sapieha and Dr. François Binet in collaboration with Dr. Frédérick Antoine Mallette and Dr. Flavio Rezende of the Center de recherche de l'Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont (CR-HMR), which is part of the Center intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux de l'Est-de-l'Île-de-Montréal, and Dr. Jean-Sébastien Joyal of the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center, affiliated with Université de Montréal and also with Dr. Jean-François Côté of the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM).

Diabetic retinopathy is characterized by vascular degeneration and later the formation of abnormal blood vessels in the retina. This vascular proliferation compromises the nerve cells that carry information from the eyes to the brain.

The study demonstrates that to stop abnormal vascular proliferation, blood vessels apply a series of molecular "brakes" that become activated in a way similar to an accelerated version of natural cellular aging. Collectively, these mechanisms culminate in a process called cellular senescence, which eventually causes tissue scarring in the retina.

When in senescence mode, blood vessels produce inflammatory molecules that become targets of immune cells called neutrophils. Although thought to be the immune system's first responders, the study shows that neutrophils arrive in the retina later on to help clean and remodel damaged blood vessels. They do this through an unconventional cellular mechanism of releasing neutrophil extracellular traps (or NETS) made up of their own DNA onto diseased blood vessels. Help-U-Care

Published in the journal Science, a new study has shed light on a cellular process that occurs in the retinas of people with diabetic retinopathy. This discovery could lead to the development of a treatment for this serious complication of diabetes.

08/20/2020

New research has shown some of our least favorite vegetables could be the most beneficial when it comes to preventing advanced blood vessel disease.

Published in the British Journal of Nutrition the research has found higher consumption of cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli, Brussels sprouts and cabbage, is associated with less extensive blood vessel disease in older women.

Using data from a cohort of 684 older Western Australian women recruited in 1998, researchers from ECU's School of Medical and Health Sciences and The University of Western Australia found those with a diet comprising more cruciferous vegetables had a lower chance of having extensive build-up of calcium on their aorta, a key marker for structural blood vessel disease.

Blood vessel disease is a condition that affects our blood vessels (arteries and veins) and can reduce the flow of blood circulating around the body. This reduction in blood flow can be due to the build-up of fatty, calcium deposits on the inner walls of our blood vessels, such as the aorta. This build-up of fatty, calcium deposits is the leading cause of having a heart attack or stroke. Help-U-Care

New research has shown some of our least favorite vegetables could be the most beneficial when it comes to preventing advanced blood vessel disease.

07/30/2020

Modifying 12 risk factors over the lifecourse could delay or prevent 40% of dementia cases, according to an update to The Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, intervention, and care, which is being presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC 2020). Help-U-Care

Modifying 12 risk factors over the lifecourse could delay or prevent 40% of dementia cases, according to an update to The Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, intervention, and care, which is being presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC 2020).

07/29/2020

Home-based care providers are at the forefront of the nation’s fight against the coronavirus; yet they still lack the full federal help they need to succeed.
Meanwhile, regulatory flexibilities for hospitals and other health care providers are creating newfound competition for home health and home care agencies. Help-U-Care

07/28/2020

The family meal has long been associated with numerous health and wellbeing benefits for both adults and children, but researchers from Flinders University's Caring Futures Institute are questioning where the hard evidence is to support this emotive belief. Help-U-Care

The family meal has long been associated with numerous health and wellbeing benefits for both adults and children, but researchers from Flinders University's Caring Futures Institute are questioning where the hard evidence is to support this emotive belief.

07/28/2020

Hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug controversially used to fight COVID-19, was trending again after a string of retweets from president Donald Trump in favor of the medicine. Help-U-Care

Hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug controversially used to fight COVID-19, was trending again after a string of retweets from president Donald Trump in favour of the medicine.

07/28/2020

There are several widely-accepted pillars in the fight to overcome a pandemic. Among them are distancing, density control, testing, contact tracing, isolating, and wearing face masks. But near-universal acceptance – at least by the healthcare community – doesn't mean implementing these measures is simple. Putting politics aside, we face the ongoing challenges of insufficient resources, including hospital space, equipment, staff, and PPE. And, of course, with any type of public health issue, we struggle with getting people to comply.

COVID-19 testing is critically important in our fight to control this pandemic. And, because of the efforts of thousands, we've made incredible strides in our testing capacity. 

07/23/2020

Dr. Lauren Van Scoy, an associate professor of medicine, humanities and public health sciences, and lead author of the study published in JAMA Network Open, said that after playing the game, 98% of participants engaged in some form of advanced care planning, including about care preferences with family members and completing or updating advanced directives, where an individual outlines their preferences for end-of-life medical care. Help-U-Care

A Penn State College of Medicine research team found that playing a simple conversation game may encourage African Americans to make plans for their end of life care. Researchers say the game may be a useful tool in addressing the disparities in end-of-life care in African American communities.

07/22/2020

The standalone home health deals that did take place during the second quarter were highly-targeted, strategic deals, according to Mertz.

Increasingly, home health providers have worked to expand their service offerings to care for patients on a more longitudinal basis. Mergers-and-acquisitions activity in the second quarter of 2020 reflected that trend. Specifically, Q2 saw a number of deals that consisted of home health care and hos...

07/17/2020

A federal appeals court ruled Health and Human Services has the authority to cut Medicare payments to off-campus clinics to bring them in line with independent physician practices, reversing a lower court’s decision. Help-U-Care

A federal appeals court ruled Health and Human Services has the authority to cut Medicare payments to off-campus clinics to bring them in line with independent physician practices, reversing a lower court’s decision.

07/16/2020

On July 14, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) announced an initiative to distribute of point-of-care COVID-19 testing devices to nursing homes across the country. Seema Verma, Administrator of CMS and Admiral Giroir, MD, Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) held a nationwide conference call with nursing homes on July 15 to provide additional information about the rollout.

A blog by the largest association representing long term and post-acute care providers, AHCA/NCAL.

07/13/2020

“We only are heroes when they like it,” he said.

A lawsuit by a nursing home employee in Italy will test whether health care professionals are paying a price for pointing out dangerous conditions at medical facilities.

07/02/2020

It has long been known that the acquired immune system can generate a vast antibody (immunoglobulin) repertoire by gene recombination in developing B-cells. However, it was not understood how the different immunoglobulin gene segments can meet each other in the three-dimensional space of a B-cell nucleus to undergo recombination, thus generating a functional antibody gene. Scientists at Vienna's Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) have now discovered that the transcription factor Pax5 plays a central role in this process by promoting the interaction of immunoglobulin gene segments through cohesin-mediated loop extrusion. These novel findings have been published by Nature today.

It has long been known that the acquired immune system can generate a vast antibody (immunoglobulin) repertoire by gene recombination in developing B-cells. However, it was not understood how the different immunoglobulin gene segments can meet each other in the three-dimensional space of a B-cell nu...

06/26/2020

Palliative (pronounced pal-lee-uh-tiv) care is supportive care. It is specialized medical attention, provided by a specially trained, interdisciplinary team of medical experts to help people who have serious, often painful illnesses. The care covers the management of physical and emotional pain, as well as stress relief and feelings of helplessness. The palliative care team works to provide quality of life for the patient as well as the patient’s family. Montgomery County, PA Home Instead Senior Care

The focus of palliative care is to provide relief from the symptoms of the disease and even the treatment side effects, as well as help with emotional and spiritual issues.

06/26/2020

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing to make telehealth flexibilities for home health providers introduced in light of the coronavirus permanent.

Yet providers would still be forced to provide the virtual care without payment.

CMS detailed that proposal and others Thursday afternoon, along with its annual suggested update to the Medicare rate.

CMS’s proposed rule for 2021 would increase Medicare payments to home health agencies by 2.6%, which equates to a roughly $540 million bump. Last year, the proposed rule for 2020 included an increase of only 1.3%. Montgomery County, PA

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing to make telehealth flexibilities for home health providers introduced in light of the coronavirus permanent. Yet providers would still be forced to provide the virtual care without payment. CMS detailed that proposal and others Thursday...

06/26/2020

The nursing home industry has taken the brunt of the nation’s coronavirus blow, with more than 40% of all U.S. COVID-19 deaths involving skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). Those staggering statistics have prompted fewer seniors to receive care in the setting, both for voluntary reasons and because many SNFs stopped accepting new patients and started discharging others due to transmission concerns.

As a result, nursing home occupancy fell sharply — by about 10% — between the end of 2019 and late May, equating to a loss of about 100,000 residents, Skilled Nursing News reported earlier this month. And given errors in reporting, the true number could be even higher. Montgomery County, PA HelpUCare.net

The nursing home industry has taken the brunt of the nation’s coronavirus blow, with more than 40% of all U.S. COVID-19 deaths involving skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). Those staggering statistics have prompted fewer seniors to receive care in the setting, both for voluntary reasons and because...

06/26/2020

A 77 year-old woman has been evicted from a care home after her family broke lockdown rules.

Barchester Healthcare said the family of bed-bound Lisa Burford had “repeatedly broke the law and lockdown rules” and bullied and verbally abused staff at Tennyson Wharf Care Home in Lincoln.

The care home operator said residents had been put at risk by Mrs Burford’s family members insisting on delivering food to the home, ignoring social distancing and reaching in at her window during lockdown.

A 77 year-old woman has been evicted from a care home after her family broke lockdown rules.

06/25/2020

Proceedings to impose an interim suspension order on HC-One’s operation of Home Farm care home in the Isle of Skye have been dropped by the Care Inspectorate.
Following a hearing at Inverness Sheriff Court yesterday the decision was made to defer court proceedings on the registration of the home to August.
A spokesperson for the Care Inspectorate said: “The court has set a date for a further hearing
“We continue to work closely with partners at NHS Highland and others to ensure people living at Home Farm experience safe care.
“We have noted some improvements in the quality of care experienced by residents at the home.
“However, our concerns remain and we are continuing to seek the cancellation of the provider’s registration through the court.” Home Instead Senior Care Montgomery County, PA

Proceedings to impose an interim suspension order on HC-One’s operation of Home Farm care home in the Isle of Skye have been dropped by the Care Inspectorate.