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Delirium Provides Clue To Underlying Medical Problems
While delirium is a common problem among hospitalized patients, people over age 65 are especially vulnerable. It’s estimated that delirium occurs in 15 to 53 percent of older patients following operations as well as in more than 70 percent of patients in intensive care.
Delirium, defined as an acute modification of mental status, can show up as sudden inattention, disorganized thinking, disorientation or agitation. Unlike dementia, it occurs suddenly, as well as an estimated all often it’s temporary. It also can signal an underlying medical problem, such as an infection or medication reaction.
“What makes delirium so upsetting on behalf of families is that its symptoms come as well as go; a family member might seem calm as well as aware one moment, but agitated as well as confused the next,” Kara Kaldawi, a geriatric advanced practice nurse at Care Connection, writes in an article on CentralJersey.com.

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Caregivers’ Health Can Suffer When Juggling Multiple Chores
Middle-aged adults who regularly help their elderly parents experience a drop in health as well as well-being in their posses lives, a new study reports. The study found these adult children were often juggling multiple roles each day, which sometimes caused conflicts in roles or left them feeling overloaded.
A Virginia Tech research team studied diaries of individuals who provided help to parents, with more than half assisting two or more days per week, according to a Health Day article. The study was published in Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences.
“The accumulation of small as well as large daily stressors, such as work deadlines, PTA meetings, supporting family as well as friends, as well as providing routine assistance to a parent living outside one’s house can build up,” said study leader Jyoti Savla, assistant professor of human development as well as gerontology. “Sooner or later, they can spill over into other areas of life with negative mental as we

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Daytime Sleeping Linked To Poor Recovery in Older Patients
Older patients who sleep during the day while in rehabilitation have less functional recovery, with the effects lasting as long as three months, new research reveals.
For the study, scientists tracked the sleeping patterns in 245 adults with an average age of 80.6 years. Each patient had been admitted to one of two study sites on behalf of in-patient rehabilitation related to conditions such as an orthopedic problem, a heart problem or stroke.
Research found that participants slept on behalf of an average of 2.1 hours during the daytime, which accounted on behalf of 15.8 percent of the time between waking up as well as bedtime, according to an American Academy of Sleep Medicine news release.

Home Instead Senior Care’s “Operation Medicine Cabinet” Protects Seniors as well as Our Community Water Supply by Safely Disposing of Old Medicines
Contact: Carolyn Casey

Franchise Owner, Home Instead Senior Care

830-624-8380

carolyn.casey@homeinstead.com
The New Braunfels office of Home Instead Senior Care, in partnership with the New Braunfels Police Department as well as NBU, has scheduled “Operation Medicine CabinetTM” on behalf of November 14, 2008 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM to help New Braunfels residents safely dispose of expired or no longer used prescription as well as over-the-counter medications.  The “drive-up as well as drop-off” event shall be held at the New Braunfels Police Department located at 1488 S. Seguin Ave