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Grissam certainly isn’t alone. More than 360 million people, or about 5 percent of the world’s population, have disabling hearing loss, according to the World Health Organization. In the US alone, one in six Americans experience hearing issues, but about 80 percent do nothing about it, according to hearing aid maker Starkey. As the US baby boomer population ages, hearing loss will become an even bigger issue in the country.
via CNET.
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Yes, hearing loss will become an even bigger issue in this country.
- Why Silence Isn’t Golden for Millions in Medicare.
- Hearing aids are incredibly expensive, ranging from $600 to over $5,000 each. These high price tags discourage many seniors from seeking a very basic solution that could dramatically improve their lives.
- Research shows even mild hearing loss can double the risk of dementia. Untreated hearing loss also contributes to balance problems and falls,
isolation, depression and a greater incidence of stress-related diseases
like diabetes and heart disease.
For years, Google Inc’s commerce chief, Stephanie Tilenius, held a demanding job and helped oversee the medical care of her parents, an experience that led her to leave the Internet search giant in 2012 and start a company to help patients combat chronic disease.
Earlier this year, Tilenius’ company launched Vida, a mobile app that lets patients consult with a team of professionals, including doctors, nurses and nutritionists, from their smartphone. The program costs $15 a week and includes reminders to take medication. Caregivers and family members can request access to the app to keep up to date with a patient’s progress.
Founder Of Company That Provided Apple Its Touch ID Tech Develops Connected-Life App For Seniors
K4Connect is named for Moody’s four daughters, Katherine, Kelsey, Kristin and Kourtney. It’s a mission-centered technology company that helps older adults and individuals with disabilities via a connected-life software suite that brings together the best in home automation products, health and wellness technologies and communication and social functionality.
via FORBES.
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- Why Silence Isn’t Golden for Millions in Medicare.
- Research shows even mild hearing loss can double the risk of dementia. Untreated hearing loss also contributes to balance problems and falls,
isolation, depression and a greater incidence of stress-related diseases
like diabetes and heart disease.
Budget cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps, will leave 47 million Americans to survive off of an average of $4.20 for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
WASHINGTON – A food stamp cut that took effect this month will negate cost-of-living adjustments to Social Security benefits for some retirees and disabled Americans.
Asked about the improving economy, McConnell scoffed: Business leaders tell him they have “a hard time finding people to do the work because they’re doing too good with food stamps, Social Security and all the rest.” Rather than cut deals like centrist Democrats of the past, he said, Obama wants to “Europeanize America” with a diet of “massive debt, high taxes on the most successful people, over-regulation.”
via Politico.
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Judy Beals of Belleville, Wisconsin, was getting ready to pay for her groceries at the store earlier this year when she found out that her monthly food stamp benefits had been slashed from $120 to $16.
“I was never even notified,” Beals, 65, said. Calling around to various state offices, she said she was told her benefits would not have gone down if she had been able to document her heating costs by providing the state with a utility bill.
via Huffington Post.
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What working in a nursing home taught me about life, death, and America’s cultural values
“I am working with a 94-year-old woman. She wakes up at 6:30 am every day, makes her bed, goes for a stroll with a walker, eats breakfast, exercises in the “rehabilitation room,” reads, eats lunch, naps, goes for another walk, drinks tea with a friend, eats dinner, and goes to bed. She has a well-defined routine. She pushes herself to do things, some of which are very difficult for her, without asking herself why it is important to do them. And, I think, this is what keeps her alive — her movement, her pushing, is her life.
Observing her, I have been coming to the conclusion that it might be true for all of us. And I often think about her when I am debating whether to go for a run or not, whether to write for a couple more hours or not, whether to finally get up from the couch and clean my apartment or not — she would do it, I know, so maybe I should, too.”
Social Media: How Senior Citizens Interact via The Main Street Analyst.