Given the unprecedented rise in the cost of fuel, home care agencies are struggling to provide services to Medicaid and Medicare home care patients in rural hard-to-serve areas. Home care agencies are finding it difficult to pay workers for the increased cost of fuel needed to visit rural patients, and some workers are leaving for [...]
Last Monday The Wall Street Journal kicked off a debate on how best to allocate scarce resources to solve the world’s problems. Bjorn Lomborg offered a summary of the latest findings from his Copenhagen Consensus project, where he has enlisted some of the world’s top economists to address the issue. Over the next few Mondays [...]
Gontina Building & Design in Clawson is going for platinum certification, the highest U.S. green building level, on a home in Bloomfield Township.
The structure started going up this week on the 3,700-square-foot European estate-inspired home. The 4-bedroom, 4-bath home, when finished early next year, is to feature bamboo flooring, structural insulated panels, a geothermal heating [...]
NSW Health last week announced an investigation was underway into the deaths of 10 elderly people at Endeavour Nursing Home in Springwood, in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney.
It is believed some of the deaths could to be linked to two gastroenteritis outbreaks in June which struck more than 80 residents of the home.
Ageing Minister [...]
An older person’s likelihood of entering a nursing home or other long-term care facility is particularly high immediately after the death of a spouse, new research indicates.
There could be various reasons for this, Elina Nihtila, of the department of sociology at the University of Helsinki, Finland, who led the research, told Reuters Health.
“It may be [...]
Angola’s Home Affairs minister, Roberto Leal Monteiro “Ngongo”, Saturday in Luanda called on chiefs of the Southern African Police to outline efficient mechanisms of fight against crime, aiming the stability of the region.
The Government official was speaking at the opening session of the third meeting of police officials of the Southern African Regional Police Chiefs [...]
Cannabis users could in future be automatically arrested and charged on their second offence, Jacqui Smith announced as she defied her own experts to tighten laws on possession of the drug.
The Home Secretary overrode the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) to confirm that cannabis would be restored from a class C to [...]
After years of living a street life, Woody Easley has finally found a home, and a new life, at a residential facility in Chicago’s Roseland neighborhood.
Easley, 60, was asked to leave another residential house in Chicago when he disclosed he was HIV positive. Now, he is one of six residents of Jo-Ray House, a home [...]
April 3 marked the 35th anniversary of the initial cell phone call, and wireless technology has evolved tremendously over the years. The original mobile phones hardly seem like they’re in the same family as today’s cell phones, said Mike Minnis, NTELOS director of public relations.
Minnis described the early versions of cellular phones as big and [...]
Maybe you ‘ve just had knee surgery and you need crutches and physical therapy.
Maybe you have an elderly parent who is no longer able to leave her home without assistance and would appreciate having meals brought in.
Or maybe your husband has been diagnosed with diabetes and needs to learn how test his blood sugar and [...]