Raising The Retirement Age In The United States Could Save Billions In Social Security Payments
... at which you can get partialpayments." With baby boomers approaching retirement age, the federal government mustact to meet the future needs of the Social Security trust fund, Manton said. "Assuming that fertility stays at a fairly moderate level and you getthese large baby boom cohorts becoming eligible ...Acceptability Of Alternative Health Care Growing In U.S.
... are often poorly distributed." Aging baby boomers are interested in health and wellness, and they are open to using healthcare outside the boundaries of biomedicine. Boomers shop the medical marketplace forsomething that works for them, using both biomedicine and complementary health practices. ...Remembering Your Medications: Older Are Wiser
ANN ARBOR, Mich.--Busy boomers are more likely than older people to forget to take thepills their doctors prescribe, according to a University of Michigan study thatsuggests older really is wiser. "Being too busy, not being old, is what leads people to make mistakes in takingtheir...Study Reveals Possible Link Between Osteoarthritis, Diet
...ecome an increasing national health problem asbaby boomers age, a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School ofMedicine study shows. The study, presented Monday (Nov. 9) at the American College ofRheumatology annual meeting in San Diego, suggests that middle-aged and olderpeople might red...Poor health is a major factor for early retirement, according to UCSF researchers
... poverty than those who retired after age 50. "For boomers who are retiring early, lack of health coverage until age 65 whenthey become eligible for Medicare, is a major concern and a public policy issuethat needs to be addressed at state and national levels," said Dorothy Rice,ScD, professor emeritus, UCSF ...Where you live may help predict risk of early death from heart disease
...group is the first comprised entirely of male baby boomers born after World War II. "The reason we were interested in this specific group of men is because we believe that lifestyle is a major factor in early death from heart disease," says lead researcher Akira Sekikawa, M.D., Ph.D, an epidemiologist at th...Study: Productivity can be increased even as baby boomers retire
... an upcoming conference says that even as the baby boomers retire, a larger-than-projected labor force can be...sasters, both national and personal, when the baby boomers retire. They say that as nations of workers and investors become nations of retired consumers, with...The silent time bomb: divorce, health care and the baby boom generation
Baby boomers now approaching the Medicare years may be bringing a time bomb with them. Half of them have been divorced, and researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that elderly people with divorce in their lives will get less care from their children than people...Nursing profession must be reinvented to ease personnel shortages, according to UCSF report
...ral decades as the health care needs of aging baby boomers increase," he said. The researchers also cite changes in the nursing work environment that have led to more stress among nurses and growing tension between nurses and managers. "Pressure to contain costs has led to efforts to reduce the length of pat...UF study: Grandparents celebrated instead of reviled in children's lit
...lot or ethnic diversity, he said. As active baby boomers age, young people will have more opportunities to get to know grandparents on a normal basis instead of set apart in retirement communities, Mills said. People think of grandparents as being old people, but many grandparents are really middle-aged pe......his century, as many as 14 million of today's baby boomers could have Alzheimer's disease. As you know, the standard wisdom is that there is no definitive way to diagnosis Alzheimer's disease other than by brain biopsy or autopsy. The information compiled by the UCLA group and presented to CMS, from studie...Definitive CWRU study says exercise, no smoking leads to longer life in adults over 75
...efits, she concludes. Kahana provides baby boomers with an optimistic message that if one practices healthy behaviors, it will have a positive impact on their lives and that it is never to late to try to improve ones lifestyle....Vitamins valuable for baby boomers eye disease
...ng high doses of vitamin supplements to aging baby boomers with vision loss due to macular degeneration the leading cause of blindness in patients over 50 years old could save the North American health care system more than $1.5 billion in the next 10 years, a Queen's University researcher has discovered. ...Study: old age wont boost health-care costs as much as some have predicted
CHAPEL HILL -- Baby boomers will increase Medicare and other medical expenditu...ntology, suggests that by living longer, many baby boomers will pass the ages at which the most "heroic," and hence expensive, efforts are made to prolong thei...Do doctors sometimes fail their heart failure patients? New study seeks hard data
...ine. "This is a disease of the elderly, so as baby boomers age we need to start understanding more about how physicians in multiple specialty areas actually treat these patients. Ultimately, we want to figure out how to best take care of patients with end-stage heart failure." The risk of heart failure, whic......ers was less than four percent. Shea says, "Baby boomers who are assisting their parents or preparing for their own retirement need to be aware of the consequences of current national health care policy. We direct very few of our public resources towards providing help with these needs out in the communit...Aortic aneurysm death risk hinges on choice of surgeon, study finds
...than ever as the American population ages and baby boomers enter the highest-risk age groups (60s and 70s) for AAA. But, the researchers feel that the supply of experienced surgeons may be enough, though patients may have to travel to reach the nearest high-volume surgeon and hospital. Meanwhile, the researc...UF 'smart home' demonstrates concept of automated elderly help and care
...h Professions. With the oldest of 78 million baby boomers just about to reach their 60s, that spells a huge wave of assistive care needs -- and ballooning costs -- in the next two decades and beyond, he said. "The real problem for how we're spending health-care dollars is going to occur in 20 years, but m...Keeping grandma safe and healthy with biosensors
..."and this trend is only expected to worsen as baby boomers hit retirement age." "These kinds of embedded tech...are going to start becoming very important to baby boomers who want the best quality of life possible as they age. Family members also will appreciate the home...Largest multistate study finds end-of-life care still 'woefully inadequate'
...l School. "Given the burgeoning population of baby boomers soon reaching retirement age, the need for reform is urgent." Teno and her colleagues examined the deaths of 1,578 people from 22 states. (Those 22 states accounted for 70 percent of all the deaths in the United States in 2000). They interviewed ber...