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2. 10 Useful Tips For Dealing With Irrational Elderly Parents ...

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   2. Understand your parent’s concerns and behaviors. Aging is a difficult process for virtually everyone. Many older adults are living with dementia or mental health issues, including anxiety and ...

3. Personal Care for Elderly Adults: 12 Tips From a Professional ...

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   1. Address elderly hygiene issues with care. Though difficult for anyone to address, lack of hygiene is one of the most important signs an aging parent needs help with their daily living tasks ...

4. Doctors Share The 14 Things You Can Do To Lower Dementia Risk ...

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   Smoking has been linked to dementia because it can increase the risk of problems with the heart and blood vessels, the Alzheimer’s Society says. Toxins in cigarettes also cause inflammation ...

5. Beers criteria - Wikipedia

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   The Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults, commonly called the Beers List, [1] are guidelines published by the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) for healthcare professionals to help improve the safety of prescribing medications for adults 65 years and older in all except palliative settings.

6. Polypharmacy - Wikipedia

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   Many older people living in long term care facilities experience polypharmacy, and under-prescribing of potentially indicated medicines and use of high risk medicines can also occur. [37] Medicine use rises from 6.0 ± 3.8 regular medicines on average when people enter long term care to 8.9 ± 4.1 regular medicines after two years.

7. Aging in place - Wikipedia

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   The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) model was created in the early 1970s in order to meet the chronic care needs of older people through their community. As an assistance program, one must be at least 55 years of age, certified by their state to need nursing home care, are able to live safely in the community at the time of ...