Nominations are now being accepted for the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Centenarian Awards. Those nominated for the Sanders-Brown Centenarian Award must be age 100 or older within the 2016 calendar year and must live in Kentucky. Centenarians will be recognized during the "I Know Expo" on Sunday April 3. The expo is [...]
Being Mortal looks at end of life medicine and the medical professionals who handle it The reviews of Atul Gawande’s best-selling book, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, praise the author’s look at how the medical profession handles aging and death. “Powerful.” ―New York Magazine “Being Mortal, Atul Gawande's masterful exploration of [...]
The AARP Smart Driver Safety Course will be offered from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., March 24 and April 21 at the Fayette County Extension Office, 1140 Red Mile Place. Taking the course could earn you a discount on your automobile insurance premiums for three to five years. The course is offered in a classroom [...]
Survivors, families asked Kentucky legislature to improve quality of life for patients with cancer and other serious illnesses and to establish a quality of life advisory committee Approximately 75 survivors, families and loved ones gathered in the Kentucky State Capitol rotunda Feb. 9 to urge legislators to take steps to improve quality of life for patients with [...]
If you are raising a grandchild or another relative’s child you are not alone. Across the United States, almost 7.8 million children are living in homes where grandparents or other relatives are the heads of households. More than 5.8 million children are living in grandparents’ homes.More than 2.5 million of these grandparents are taking on [...]
A story by Los Angeles Times reporter John M. Glionna looks at the lives of seniors who are, literally, “too poor to retire and too young to die.” A piece of Glionna’s work recently appeared in The Herald-Leader, but it can also be found on the LA Times website at http://graphics.latimes.com/retirement-nomads/ Here’s how the [...]
‘Promise you’ll never put me in a nursing home,’ is not a hard vow to make, but it can be hard to keep Whenever Sarah Harris and her husband, Ernie, drove past a nursing home, he would say the same thing: That’s where you’re going to put me. That’s where I’m going to be sent. “I [...]
Given their druthers, most people would opt for a long and healthy life. Few relish the idea of spending years, even decades, incapacitated by illness, dependent on caregivers and unable to enjoy the people, places and activities that make life worth living. In 1980, Dr. James F. Fries, a Stanford University physician who studied chronic [...]
Captain Jim Lovell, space explorer, Naval officer and test pilot, will be the guest speaker April 7 at the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Foundation dinner. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging. A native of Cleveland, Lovell was the navigator on the historic Apollo 8 mission, man’s first [...]
Evolent Health and Louisville-based not-for-profit Medicaid provider Passport Health Plan have joined forces to create the Medicaid Center of Excellence, which for now will be co-located at Passport’s headquarters in Louisville. Leaders with both organizations touted the partnership as a potential model for the rest of the United States, reported Caitlin Bowling for a story [...]