Tag: elderly
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Health-care system not ready to deal with baby boomers as they get old, expert says at seminar on aging
When it comes to dealing with aging baby boomers, the nation’s health-care system isn’t ready to deal with them, Dr. Gregg Warshaw, left, said at the University of Kentucky‘s Summer...
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Louisville has highest concentration of nursing-home and extended-care companies in U.S.
Louisville has the largest concentration of nursing-home and extended-care companies in the country. Of the 570,000 people who call Louisville home, 4,000 work in the industry and produce $28 billion...
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National effort to combat Alzheimer’s disease begins; as research continues, there are preventive steps you can take
Country singer Glen Campbell, who has Alzheimer’s disease,stands with wife Kim during a national conference Tuesday.Associated Press photo by Charles Dharapak. With numbers expected to jump to 16 million Americans...
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455 deficiencies found in 72 Kentucky nursing homes in fourth quarter of 2011
State inspectors found 455 deficiencies in 72 Kentucky nursing homes in the fourth quarter of 2011, with one facility accounting for 25 of them alone: Kindred Transitional Care & Rehab-Fountain Circle...
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Free seminar on guardianship to be offered Feb. 26 in Lexington
Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform will provide the opportunity to learn from experts about guardianship Feb. 26. More than 23,000 Kentuckians live in nursing homes. Lexington attorneys Carolyn Kenton and...
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Nursing home ombudsman program at risk because of ‘callous and apparenly clueless’ move by feds, advocate writes
The Kentucky long-term care ombudsman program is at risk in Kentucky due to a change in federal policy. The Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services is “quietly telling some state...
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Jury tells nursing home to pay $1 million to former resident
A Fayette County jury has decided that Lexington’s Cambridge Place Nursing Home will have to pay more than $1 million in damages to a former resident who fell and was...
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Free conference on Alzheimer’s in Louisville Sept. 17
A Washington-based geriatric researcher will join University of Louisville researchers and clinicians a free conference examining Alzheimer’s disease from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 17, at the Crowne...
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Planned merger of Louisville hospitals grows more controversial; C-J devotes considerable space to it and Beshear steps in
UPDATE, July 27, 3:43 p.m.: Gov. Steve Beshear issued a statement saying “It is clear there are growing concerns within the community about issues related to the hospital’s future level...
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Louisville hospital merger could thwart some patients’ final wishes
More concerns are being raised about the merger that would put a Catholic hospital group in charge of the University of Louisville‘s hospital. First, it was the prospect that women...