Patricia Grace, founder and president of the geriatric care management company, Aging with Grace recently taped two segments on The Daily Apple, produced by Retirement Living television.
New research suggests that the widespread use of below body temperature air in breathing tubes, which appears to be common in nursing homes, may produce small drops in the brain's temperature which may prevent recovery of brain injured patients. The introduction of cool air directly into the trachea of intubated patients cools blood to the brain and appears to disrupt its neurochemistry in ways that may inhibit recovery or cause negative effects.
Aging with Grace, the area’s leading eldercare resource, has been named a geriatric care management service provider for Commonwealth Association of School Administrators (CASA).
The National Council on Aging (NCOA) commends the House of Representatives for passing the Senior Independence Act (H.R. 5293) without dissent. The legislation would reauthorize and strengthen services offered under the Older Americans Act, the chief federal law governing the organization and delivery of a number of social services for older Americans.
The attached article, "Nursing Homes: The Perils of an Institutionalized Life", relying almost entirely on past newspaper articles, books and news broadcasts, exposes the abuses and Eldercide of our senior citizens – our mothers, brothers and sisters – inside nursing homes; and the lack of government action. Elder abuses, the mistreatment of senior citizens and Eldercide in nursing homes are now shockingly common and rising.