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Long-Term Elder Care: What It Costs in Your State
5:05PM 7/29/2011
Genworth Financial's Cost of Care survey tracked average prices of home care, assisted living facilities and nursing homes across the country, and unsurprisingly, found staggering variations. The priciest state for nursing home care in the U.S. averages more than four times as much as the cheapest.
Don't Let Nana Drive You Into Bankruptcy
9:00AM 7/12/2011
By Selena Maranjian, The Motley Fool
Retirement, Health Care, Insurance, MetLife, Family Money, Personal Finance, Saving Money
For children, excursions with grandmother are an adventure. As time passes, however, the ride into the golden years can get bumpy; if you're financially unprepared, it can take a dramatic turn for the worse, and even drive you and your family into bankruptcy. Here are some steps you can take to prevent that.
Who's at Risk of Alzheimer's? GE and J&J Hope to Find Out
10:00PM 12/01/2010
Medical imaging and diagnostics powerhouse GE Healthcare teams up with pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson to research methods of detecting Alzheimer's in patients -- even before they begin to exhibit symptoms of the devastating disease.
Recognizing the Stages of Alzheimer's Can Limit Pain and Expense
1:00PM 11/23/2010
Retirement, healthcare, Insurance - Health Insurance, Saving Money
Alzheimer's is the scariest disease of them all. Slowly losing your sight or your hearing is bad, but relentlessly losing your mind is terrifying.
It's also expensive. The cost of caring for people with dementia exceeds $725 billion annually, the combined 2009 revenues of Wal-Mart and Exxon Mobil,...
Omega-3 Fish Oil Supplements Don't Help Alzheimer's Patients
3:56PM 11/02/2010
Despite earlier studies that hinted that Omega-3 supplements -- commonly sold as fish oil capsules -- might help slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease, a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows absolutely no benefit for most patients.
The High Costs of Dementia Are Set to Soar Worldwide
10:30AM 9/21/2010
Its total worldwide costs for 2010 are estimated to be $604 billion, or around 1% of the world's GDP, according to World Alzheimer Report 2010 from Alzheimer's Disease International. By 2030, that burden could hit more than $1.1 trillion.
Eli Lilly has halted the development of an Alzheimer's treatment after studies showed the experimental drug not only failed to slow the disease's progression, it actually reduced patients' cognition.
What new Alzheimer's research means for today's Baby Boomers
10:00AM 8/10/2010
Radical new thinking in the field of Alzheimer's study holds out the hope that literally millions of Baby Boomers could be diagnosed and possibly treated before the disease's devastation takes effect. While this is good news for middle-aged Americans, it's even better news for certain...
Former White House reporter Helen Thomas' rant against Israel was more than a "senior moment," but the forced retirement of the 89-year-old is a lesson in what the future of the American workforce could look like.
Not that more elderly workers will be telling people where to live in a racist...
Drugmakers Agree to Share Alzheimer's Research Data in Search of Breakthrough
3:00PM 6/13/2010
Health Care, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Sanofi Aventis, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Abbott, Eli Lilly, Astrazeneca
Alzheimer's has been a tough area for medical research, resulting in little help to date for the millions of sufferers. But a new database of patient information from failed trials, built by competing drugmakers, may yield clues to a treatment breakthrough.
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