“National summit leads to 700 dementia recommendations,” by Kimberly Marselas, McKnight’s LTC News Quote: “Participants in a national research summit have recommended nearly 700 new strategies for understanding dementia, working toward a cure and supporting people who have it. … The findings, updated online Wednesday, summarize last year’s National Research Summit on Care, Services, and Supports for Persons with Dementia and their Caregivers held at the National Institutes of Health. … Specific ideas to accelerate the development, evaluation, translation, implementation, and scaling up of comprehensive care and supports were broken out into 12 themes ranging from disease stages to settings
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“How to Protect Yourself and Your Family From Long-Term Care Insurance Scams,” by Brian O’Connell, The Street Quote: “Long-term care insurance consumers — usually upper-middle age and older Americans — face enough hurdles in finding the best policies. Complicated contracts, high fees and charges, and booming premiums await any long-term care insurance buyer. On top of that lurks another, more sinister issue for buyers, and it’s one of the worst forms of elder fraud — long-term care insurance fraud. It’s a big problem, given the skyrocketing costs of long-term care services these days, and the burgeoning need for long-term care
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“AP-NORC Poll: Young adults feel stress of long-term care,” by Emily Swanson, Sacramento Bee Quote: “Most young adults haven’t given much thought to their own needs as they get older, but a significant number are already providing long-term care for older loved ones, according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. … According to the poll, a third of American adults under age 40 have already provided care for an older relative or friend, and another third expect to be called upon to do so within the next five years. … Only 16 percent
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