Caregivers: Help Needed

Among respondents to the 2009 Caregiving in the U.S. study, 78% expressed the need for help or more information in at least one of fourteen topics related to caregiving. Keeping their family members safe
at home (37%), managing their own stress (34%), identifying easy activities to do with their loved ones (34%), and finding time for themselves (32%) were the most often identified needs.

Caregiving in the U.S.: Executive Summary
National Alliance for Caregiving in collaboration with AARP
Funded by the MetLife Foundation
November 2009

From MetLife Quick Facts: http://ow.ly/1piSx

Grandparent Nation

Nearly one out of every four people in the U.S. is a grandparent. This number, 70 million, is more than the number of people in France, and is twice the population of California. Today’s American grandparents are active and energetic. The average age at which someone becomes a grandparent is 48, and many of them are running marathons or dating online.

Welcome to the Grandest Nation on Earth
Grandparents.com
http://ow.ly/1piSx

From MetLife Quick Facts: http://ow.ly/1piSx

Boomerang Children / Multi-generational families

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/nyregion/22singles.html

Images from NYT

It's Never Too Late: Empowering Lives Through Technology

http://www.in2l.com/index.cfm/event/pageview/contentpiecemappingname/sia/

Kinnexxus: Connecting Your Senior Ecosystem™

Adheretx

AdhereTx Corp provides web-based, intelligent monitoring and management solutions to improve the quality and reduce the cost of care in patients with chronic conditions including hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, pulmonary disease, and other disease states. The solution is optimized for patients with multiple chronic conditions and the most complex therapeutic regimens. It enables patients or their proxies to self report information about their medications and “observations of daily living” (ODL) behaviors, as well as to capture biometric monitoring data (e.g. blood pressure). A rules engine makes sense of this data to provide feedback to both patient and health care provider. The patient receives tailored, automated coaching and can be profiled for appropriate therapeutic interventions; the provider is given heuristic information to enable them to adjust medications and therapies on a timely basis to achieve goals for treatment and avoid potentially serious and costly complications.

http://www.adheretx.com/

Aging issues can be tougher on gays

by Tom Watkins
http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/wayoflife/03/17/gays.aging.problems/index.html?hpt=Sbin