Baby Boomers Health and Living with Seniors

Studies point out that forgetting where you've put your glasses is not a sign of dementia /Alzheimers, but not remembering you wear glasses can be. Having to remember to order something or keeping a schedule cannot be easy, lets say you need to order adult diapers for a incontinent person in your house hold having to go to the store or pharmacy to achieve this could be a tiresome task. Setting your own schedule for home delivery is the perfect solution. Yes we typically become more forgetful as we age.

Cell loss in regions like the parietal cortex by free radical damage may be some of the cause. High blood sugar levels may be associate with boomer memory loss. Yes high levels of sugar in the blood of aging people have been shown to be associated with memory loss and the shrinkage of a brain structure critical for recall. The rest of the loss might just be chalked up to the passage of time. This doesn't mean memory loss is a given.

A great statement I read today: "If you think about the amount of information that could potentially be stored in a lifetime we would clutter up our neurons. Maybe forgetting is a way to allow you to store what's really important. The fact that you had a granola bar this morning for breakfast, and a bagel the day before, it's ultimately not that important.

With the U.S. population growing grayer, job prospects for home health aides — and every worker providing healthcare to seniors, for that matter — are quite rosy. As the 78 million baby boomers live longer with more chronic illnesses, the country will face a shortage of professionals trained to meet the special needs of the elderly.

"Are we ready for the baby boomers growing older? The consensus is no. We simply don’t have enough health professionals with specialty training in geriatrics."

It’s not just the elderly who will be affected by this shortfall, however. I read that experts predict that fewer medical practices will accept new patients and people will face longer waits to see physicians — if they see them at all. Instead, more nurse practitioners and physician assistants will provide front-line care.

Consider some recent predictions that warn of an upcoming health crisis brought on by an aging population.

If current graduation and training rates continue, the United States could face a shortage of about 130,000 physicians by 2030, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. The physician shortage will likely be exacerbated by two storms at the same time: the aging population, which uses more healthcare, and the possibility of having as many as 32 million newly insured Americans by 2014 under the new national health plan.