Female Incontinence and Prolapse (Part 1)
Written by admin on April 29, 2010 – 5:56 pm -
Overview: Urinary incontinence and disorders of the bladder and pelvic organs affect many women of all ages and can have a major impact on their quality of life. But there are effective treatments. Disorders relating to the pelvic organs Types of urinary incontinence Urge incontinence – definition and treatments Stress incontinence – definition and treatments Guest: Dr. Leslie Rickey, a urologist and urogynecologist at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Dr. Rickey is also an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Links: Female Incontinence www.youtube.com Uterine Prolapse – Causes and Treatments www.youtube.com Minimally Invasive Bladder Repair for Stress Urinary Incontinence www.umm.edu Urogynecology and Reconstructive Surgery www.umm.edu Dr. Leslie Rickey www.umm.edu
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My parents have medicare parts a and b plus a supplementary insurance, should they be receiving a bill?
Written by admin on April 28, 2010 – 3:19 pm -Retired and living in florida, when you visit the physician’s office and they are a medicare provider, are they allowed to bill you or are they to accept what medicare provides?
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Does the Tech-savvy Baby Boomer Exist?
Written by admin on April 24, 2010 – 2:53 pm -Last week my friend spent 4 hours teaching her 64-year-old mother how to program her brand new Ti-Vo to record her two favorite daily soaps. After 4 hours Mama Brown asked her daughter to return the “useless” machine to the store and bring her a good ol’ VCR that could easily record her shows. While there are many baby boomers like Mama Brown who couldn’t send an email to more than one person at once, or take 10 minutes to type a text message, there are just as many who have embraced technology as a crucial facet in everyday life. There are many boomers who instant message, can program their iPod nanos with no difficulty, even keep track of their daily blogs.
Tech-savvy baby boomers are quickly becoming the norm. Recent studies have shown that America’s 78 million boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, are just as likely as Gen X-ers and Gen Y-ers to own a mobile phone or to use the Internet. But the technology products and Web services they use often reflect the concerns boomers have as they move into their 60s. “Kids adopt new technology because it’s fun and cool and they’re curious,” says Dr. Reisen, co-founder of a popular boomer social website. “Boomers adopt technology as they need it.”
The lifestyle of the boomer generation influences the products they buy, says Susan Walker, founder of the Smart-Silvers Alliance, which seeks to promote awareness and development of consumer-friendly technology products for seniors. “Younger generations don’t hang around the house too long; they’re all about having portable media, personal entertainment,” Walker says. As we get older, we develop cataracts, weight gain, arthritis and that makes portable entertainment a tougher sell. The older generation loves TV, but you can’t stare at a 2-inch screen without having to get a stronger eyeglass prescription.
Difficulty of use is a common complaint; mobile phone developers have been chasing the younger generation with slicker, smaller handsets. Those tiny buttons are not made for an adult hand. That is probably why you don’t see many boomers text messaging.
Having witnessed the tech revolution, Baby Boomers are willing to embrace and purchase today’s emerging entertainment offerings, according to the findings in TV Land’s Joy of Tech Study. 78 million strong and $2.3 trillion in annual spending, and outpacing 18-39 year-olds by 53%, Baby Boomers have the numbers, financial means and desire to create their own “digital nest” – a place where new media technology creates both a personal escape as well as an entertainment hub for family and friends.
If you are tired of the teasing and taunting from your younger more tech-savvy counterparts, you can tell them that it is you the boomer that can take credit for shaping the course of this technology if not the entire direction of the digital revolution. Have you heard of Bill Gates? He is among one of digital industry pioneers now in their 50s. But several decades ago he was the annoying tech-savvy kid who seized the moment when the “old folks” had no clue.
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For post-boomers, public education is worth more than Social Security and Medicare
Written by admin on April 19, 2010 – 9:47 am -By Yasmin Anwar, Media Relations | 14 April 2010
BERKELEY — It’s easy to assume retiring baby boomers will benefit from Social Security and Medicare at the expense of younger generations, as analysts estimate that these government-run programs will pay out more than they collect in payroll taxes by 2017.
But a far-reaching new study from the University of California, Berkeley, concludes that younger Americans — specifically those born between 1972 and 2060 — are actually getting the better deal when the value of public education is factored in as an intergenerational entitlement program on a par with Social Security and Medicare.
“Receiving public education is a really big benefit, and the fact that kids get it at the start of their lives rather than at the end makes it even more valuable,” said Ronald Lee, a UC Berkeley demographer and economist who coauthored the study, “Who wins and who loses? Public transfer accounts for U.S. generations born 1850-2090.”
On average, Americans pay the taxes that subsidize education 30 years after receiving the benefits, the study noted. By contrast, people start drawing their Social Security and Medicare benefits 30 years or so after paying taxes into these government funds. Thus, each education dollar is worth $10 in retirement benefits, according to the study, which is published in the March issue of the journal Population and Development Review.
The study marks the first time that analysts have treated public education from kindergarten through college as an intergenerational entitlement benefit, which refers to programs funded by taxes paid by generations other than the recipients. The analysts calculated the value of public education relative to the recipients’ lifetime earnings.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, “older Americans are not making out like bandits when you factor in the value of public education,” Lee said.
Previous studies on government entitlement programs, also called public transfer accounts, have looked at public pension and health plans only when balancing the transfer of benefits from one generation to the next, concluding that the baby boomers — those born between 1946 and 1964 — will strain and possibly even drain Social Security and Medicare, threatening to leave future workers with government IOUs.
Using historical data and future projections, Lee and his research team calculated the net value of Social Security, Medicare and public education at all levels — minus taxes — for Americans born from 1850 through 2090. They found that people ages 38 and younger — including those born 20 years from now — will make net gains in earnings of 4 to 6 percent over their lifetimes. By contrast, those now aged 63 to 80 will have paid out more in taxes than they will have received in Social Security, Medicare and public education benefits, losing 1 to 2 percent in net earnings over their lifetimes.
The researchers’ calculations are based on a person’s “net present value at birth,” which takes into account the taxes paid and benefits received throughout a person’s life, then establishes his or her worth as a lump sum today.
While the study found greater benefits for those born after 1972, it projects that tougher times are ahead for generations born 50 years from now. Unless significant changes are made to the Social Security and Medicare programs, those later generations would have to be heavily taxed — 44 percent of their lifetime earnings — and their benefits reduced, to make up for severe shortfalls due to population aging and escalating health care costs, according to the study.
Nearly 80 million baby boomers are phasing into retirement and by 2017, Social Security is expected to pay out more than it collects in payroll taxes, according to a recent report from the Social Security and Medicare Board of Trustees.
“The current young and future generations are sometimes viewed as victims of profligate public policy in the United States, whereby the current elderly cohorts live comfortably at their expense,” the UC Berkeley study said.
“In fact, however, an elderly person born in 1936 experienced a net loss of about 2 percent of lifetime earnings, while a baby born today is projected to realize a net gain of 5 percent … Evidently, adding education to the mix dramatically changes the generational equity picture,” the study concluded.
In addition to Lee, the study’s coauthors are Tim Miller, a demographer with the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Chile; Antoine Bommier, an economist at the University of Toulouse, France; and Stephane Zuber, an economist at the Universite Catholique de Louvain in Belgium.
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Exercises for Arthritis Pain Relief : Hip & Knee Stretches for Arthritis Pain Relief
Written by admin on April 18, 2010 – 11:08 pm -
How to relieve arthritis pain in the hip and knee with stretching exercise treatments; get expert tips and advice on treating pain caused by arthritis in this free personal health video. Expert: Monica Paradise Bio: Monica Paradise teaches physical therapy and massage at Industrial Hand and Physical Therapy in Phoenix, AZ. She will receive a doctorate degree in Physical Therapy at Northern Arizona University. Filmmaker: Eric Johnston
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