Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia
Two Parents with Alzheimer's Raises Child's Risk
Alzheimer's Association, Early Onset Alzheimer's
Living with Early Onset Alzheimer's
Early-Onset Alzheimers: An Interview with a Mayo Clinic Specialist
Sufferers of Early Onset Alzheimer's Describe Life with the Disease
Dementia: It's Not Always Alzheimer's
Closing in on Origins of Main Ingredient of Alzhiemer's Plaques
Memory in One of Three People Over Age 70 is Impaired, Study Shows
Getting Forgetful? Then Blueberries May Hold the Key
Larger Belly in Mid-Life Increase Risk of Dementia, Study Suggests
First Diagnostic Test for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease on the Horizon
When a Mind Begins to Disappear: A Young Family's Journey to the Dark Side
Administration on Aging Alzheimer's Resource Room
CANE Annotated Bibliography: Elder Abuse and Mental Health/Alzheimer's Disease/Dementia CANE Annotated Bibliography: Dementia (2000 - 2004)
Alzheimer’s Association: Dementia Care Training
Alzbrain.org: Resources for Caregivers and Professionals
Alzheimer's Resource Room
National Council for Certified Dementia Practitioners (NCCDP)
Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services, Alzheimer’s Training and Information
Alzheimer's Association Publications
Donna Schuyler, Bryan A. Liang, Reconceptualizing Elder Abuse: Treating the Disease of Senior Community Exclusion, 15 Annals Health L. 275 (2006).
Karen Eltis, Predicating Dignity on Autonomy? The Need for Further Inquiry into the Ethics of Tagging and Tracking Dementia Patients With GPS Technology, 14 Elder L.J. 35 (2005).
Linda Dawson, Preventing Abuse and Neglect in Health Care Settings: The Regulatory Agency’s Responsibility, 77 Wis. Law. 10 (Aug. 2004).
Iris Freeman, Assuring Safety for People with Dementia in Long-Term Care Facilities: A Focus on Staffing, 9 Ethics, Law, and Aging Rev. 107 (2003).
Jennifer Gimler Brady, Long-Term Care Under Fire: A Case for Rational Enforcement, 18 J. Contemp. Health L. & Pol’y 1 (Winter 2001).
John B. Breaux & Orrin G. Hatch, Confronting Elder Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation: The Need for Elder Justice Legislation, 11 Elder L.J. 207 (2003).
Joint Conference on Legal/Ethical Issues in the Progression of Dementia, “Recommendations of the Joint Conference,” 35 Ga. L. Rev. 423 (Winter 2001).
Michelle Stowell, Chapter 434: Protecting Those with Alzheimer’s Disease and Demntia by Increasing Educational Requirements for RCFE Staff, 32 McGeorge L. Rev. 733 (Winter 2001).
Angela Snellenberrger Quin, Imposing Federal Criminal Liability on Nursing Homes: A Way of Deterring Inadequate Health Care and Improving the Quality Delivered? 43 St. Louis U. L.J. 653 (Spring 1999).
Caregivers
Alzheimer's Care: Grief is Heaviest Burden for Caregivers
Dealing with Dementia: Help for Relatives, Caregivers, and Friends
Family Cardiac Caregivers May Have Higher Heart Disease Risk
Support and Counseling Helps Alzheimer's Caregivers Remain Healthy
Alzbrain.org: Resources for Caregivers and Professionals
Judy M. Zarit, Caring for the Caregivers of the Elderly: Having Fun While Doing Good, Family Relations, Vol. 48, No. 4 (Oct., 1999)
Falling
Risk of Falling is Overlooked as the Major Cause of Fractures in the Elderly
Toll-Free Hotline to Help Seniors Avoid Falls
Yoga Poses Can Prevent Falls in Women Over 65, Study Suggests
Worried About Family or Friends Falling? New Guideline Identifies Those Most at Risk
Fitness
A Month of Exercise Helps Ease Heart Failure
Maintaining Aerobic Fitness Could Delay Biological Aging by up to 12 Years, Study Shows
Elderly Improve With Exercise, Too
Older Women Have Harder Time Preserving Muscle Than Men
High Blood Pressure
High Blood Pressure Runs in Families
High Blood Pressure Associated With Risk for Mild Cognitive Impairment
Medicare
Medicare Drug Plan Fuels Health-Care Spending
Medicare's Drug Program Enrollment Up, Costs Down
Home-Based Senior Care Program Has Limited Benefits
Most Medicare Recipients Ignore Colorectal Cancer Screening
Medicare's Drug Benefit Tough to Navigate
Susan Adler Channick, The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003: Will it be Good Medicine for U.S. Health Policy?, 14 Elder L.J. 237 (2006).
Medicine
Medicines and Older Adults
New Drug May Help Rescue the Aging Brain
Stroke
Daytime Dozing Linked to Increased Stroke Risk in Elderly
Early Blood Pressure Reduction May Improve Stroke Outcome
Advance Directives
Put It In Writing is sponsored by the American Hospital Association and has key resources
for patients, their family and friends, and the hospitals that serve them.
Caring Connections is a consumer engagement initiative intended to improve care at the
end of life. This site has information on care planning, financial planning and
links to state specific advance directives,
Aging With Diginity is the creator of the Five Wishes Advance Directive, the most
popular advance directive in the United States. Five Wishes is available in the
following languages:
American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging
Miscellaneous
Elder Care Websites
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Humor Plays an Important Role in Healthcare Even When Patients are Terminally Ill
Health "Shocks" Dimish Wealth More Later in Life
Update to Food Guide Pyramid for Older Adults
Worst U.S. Nursing Homes Listed
Werner Gruber, Life and Death on Your Terms: The Advance Directives Dilemma and What Should be Done in the Wake of the Schiavo Case, 15 Elder L.J. 503 (2007).
Helen Y. Kim, Do I Really Understand? Cultural Concerns in Determining Diminished Competency, 15 Elder L.J. 265 (2007).
Mike E. Jorgensen, The Convicted Felon as a Guardian: Considering the Alternatives of Potential Guardians With Less-Than-Perfect Records, 15 Elder L.J. 51 (2007).
Laura Fernandez Feitl, Caring for the Elderly Undocumented Workers in the United States: Discretionary Reality or Undeniable Duty?, 13 Elder L.J. 227 (2005).
Andrew D. Wone, Don't Want to Pay for your Institutionalized Spouse? The Role of Spousal Refusal and Medicaid in Funding Long-Term Care, 14 Elder L.J. 485 (2006).
Jacqueline d. Farinella, Come On In, The Water's Fine: Opening Up the Special Needs Pooled Trust to the Eligible Elderly Population, 14 Elder L.J. 127 (2006)
Elizabeth D. Tedrow, Social Security Privatization in Other Countries--What Lessons Can Be Learned for the United States?, 14 Elder L.J. 35 (2006).
Susan L. Waysdorf, The Aging of the AIDS Epidemic: Emerging Legal and Public Health Issues for Elderly Persons Living With HIV/AIDS, 10 Elder L.J. 47 (2002).
