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		<title>Caring For Our Elderly Parents In The Sandwich Generation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have spent weeks, if not longer, researching a variety of topics relating to caring for our elderly parents. As important as it is to lovingly care for our elderly parents, it is also a daunting task at best. While researching the various aspects and responsibilities involved with caring for elderly parents, I was surprised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social care tax &#8216;remains on the table&#8217;</title>
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A compulsory levy to pay for social care &#8220;remains on the table&#8221;, Andy Burnham, the health secretary, said yesterday &#8211; despite the Conservatives&#8217; blanket refusal to back what they dub a compulsory &#8220;death tax&#8220;.
His stance came after a conference of about 40 organisations representing carers, the elderly and other social care recipients issued a summary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Background checks essential For Care Home Workers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since 2006, residential care homes for the mentally ill and elderly in Oklahoma have failed to complete or review criminal background checks for at least 26 employees, records show.
In a case involving the now-closed Green Country residential home in Fairland, administrators were unaware of the requirement for employee background checks.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know I was supposed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allinstew.co.uk/?p=394</link>
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		<title>Studies: Some Nursing Home Elderly Get Futile Care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES (AP) &#8212; A surprising number of frail, elderly Americans in nursing homes are suffering from futile care at the end of their lives, two new federally funded studies reveal.
One found that putting nursing home residents with failing kidneys on dialysis didn&#8217;t improve their quality of life and may even push them into further [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treating Dementia, but Overlooking Its Physical Toll</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dementia is often viewed as a disease of the mind, an illness that erases treasured memories but leaves the body intact.
But dementia is a physical illness, too — a progressive, terminal disease that shuts down the body as it attacks the brain. Although the early stages can last for years, the life expectancy of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elder Abuse, Neglect Make Early Death Far More Likely</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finding illustrates need to report suspected problems, expert says
First Posted Posted August 4, 2009.
By Serena Gordon
HealthDay Reporter
TUESDAY, Aug. 4 (HealthDay News) &#8212; When seniors stop taking proper care of themselves, their risk for death increases nearly sixfold, a new study shows.
In addition, elderly people who are abused physically, emotionally, financially or through withdrawal of care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting Elder Abuse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Advocate Advises How To  Protect Loved Ones.
(CBS)  Investigating physical abuse and outright neglect of patients, CBS News has been exposing the horrors inside some of this country&#8217;s nursing homes.
If you&#8217;re wondering what the government is doing about this, CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports the answer is: not nearly enough.A distress call came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Witness Abuse: What Would You Do?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Caregiver Berates an Elderly Man in a Public Park;  Will Passers-By Take Action? Would you?
What do you do when faced with a difficult decision?
Would you react differently if you knew someone was watching?
What if your dinner out was ruined by kids running wild and out of control  while an oblivious parent ignored [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allinstew.co.uk/?p=380</link>
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		<title>73-year-old man gets probation for elder abuse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A 73-year-old former Edmonton man convicted of tying his mother to a chair and threatening to throw her off a balcony was today placed on 12 months probation.
However, the judge in the case told the wheelchair-bound Clifford Morin if he had been younger, healthier or without reasons for his behaviour toward his now-deceased mother, he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allinstew.co.uk/?p=377</link>
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		<title>The town where you can live 26 years longer: Britain&#8217;s gulf in life expectancy revealed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[t is a tale of two towns that speaks volumes about the state of Britain’s health.
In the affluent Moreton Hall area of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, average life expectancy is 93.4 years – the highest in the country.
But in the deprived Middlehaven district in Middlesbrough, it’s 67.8 – the lowest.
That is a difference of [...]]]></description>
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