by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Long Term Care, Medicine
Seniors and their families need guidance, instruction and emotional and legal support when receiving care in a hospital on an emergency basis, assisted living center, rehabilitation facility or nursing home, assuming guardianship of an incapacitated loved one,...
by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Long Term Care, Medicine
Comprehensive, Multi-Disciplinary, Sector-wide Solutions To combat the unhealthful aging practices of seniors and environmental pollution, government, business and nonprofits must unite to strategize over public policy to reduce exposure to poisonous chemicals,...
by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Long Term Care, Medicine
Twenty years since the passage of the Clean Air Act under President Richard Nixon in 1970, health benefits begin to manifest, Sykes said. In 1990, when the Act was re-authorized by President George H.W. Bush, clean air programs were found to prevent 205,000 premature...
by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Long Term Care, Medicine
A June 2009 EPA Fact Sheet found that seniors may be more vulnerable to the effects of exposure of pesticides because of the manner in which the human body changes how it processes chemicals with old age. Yet, the EPA fact sheet reported, eight out of ten households...
by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Long Term Care, Medicine
Sykes explained that, in scientific research, a fine particle is 2.5 microns, a particle of flour is bigger and a grain of beach sand is blown up to 1,000 times of the size of the fine particle. Yet, despite its small size, the fine particle is powerful and possibly...
by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Long Term Care, Medicine
Connections to Air Quality In a presentation titled “Aging Initiative: Protect Your Heart, Know Your AQI,” Sykes stressed that seniors and individuals in general ought to know their Air Quality Index, also known as AQI, as accessed on the EPA’s Air Now websites at...
