Reuters - Government spending for Medicare, Medicaid and other healthcare programs will more than double over the next decade to $1.8 trillion, or 7.3 percent of the country's total economic output, congressional researchers said on Tuesday.
AP - The Obama administration wants to spend just over half a billion dollars on Alzheimer's research next year, hoping to battle back against what could become the defining disease of the aging baby-boom generation.
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Creating a home safety checklist can help
seniors prevent injuries and let them prepare if they happen to fall or
hurt themselves.
HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- New guidelines for diagnosing
the mental decline that can come with several diseases of aging may create
confusion among doctors and patients about who has early Alzheimer's
disease and who simply has mild cognitive impairment, a new report
warns.
Reuters - The revised definition of a brain condition called mild cognitive impairment means that many people now considered to have mild or early Alzheimer's disease could easily be given that diagnosis instead, suggests a new study.
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Creating a home safety checklist can help
seniors prevent injuries and let them prepare if they happen to fall or
hurt themselves.
HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- New guidelines for diagnosing
the mental decline that can come with several diseases of aging may create
confusion among doctors and patients about who has early Alzheimer's
disease and who simply has mild cognitive impairment, a new report
warns.
LiveScience.com - Almost everyone currently diagnosed with a mild form of Alzheimer's disease would be downgraded to not having the condition, if new proposed criteria for the diagnosis of cognitive problems were applied, a new study shows.
