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- The 401k Fallout
- Checked your 401k lately? The recent financial collapse has devastated this retirement resource. Older workers are hardest hit, as their financial futures may now be at risk. Steve Kroft reports.
- Videos 2009-04-19
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- Bloomberg: Poverty and Pension Fears Drive Elderly Japanese to Crime
- Trader Mark submits: We wrote a few weeks ago [Oct 28: Pooring of Japan Too?] how we were seeing some troubling similarities in Japan to the US - growth in working poor, temporary employment allowing pay without benefits, income gaps increasing after free market reforms, et al. Now comes this...
- External links 2008-11-17
- Integrating Vehicle Design and Human Factors: Minimizing Elderly Driving Constraints
- With a projected rise in the number of elderly, most of whom have also relied primarily on the private automobile for their mobility; it is likely that future adaptations in vehicle design will be linked in some part to the physical infirmities often faced by the elderly. This paper offers...
- White papers 2005-02-10
- Insomnia Pill Makers Go After Elderly With New 'Fear of Falling'
- For years, drug companies have tried to expand the range of prescriptions of sleeping pills. They're not just for sleeping any more -- now they're also for avoiding "rebound insomnia" in the elderly, "increased risk of automotive crashes, decreased work performance ... or mood changes," generalized anxiety disorder, and depression....
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- -U.S. HHS: Marriage encourages healthy behaviors among the elderly, especially men.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-28 October 1998-U.S. HHS: Marriage encourages healthy behaviors among the elderly, especially men C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:261098 Marriage has a positive effect on the healthy behaviors of the elderly population, and that effect is larger for elderly men than...
- Research articles 1998-10-28
- Elderly music vs. Gibson: leading vintage dealer sued for advertising "Gibson copy".(RETAILER UPDATE)
- THE PRESENCE OF a "Gibson copy" banjo on the Elderly Instruments website has landed the Lansing, Michigan-based retailer in the middle of a lawsuit with Gibson Guitar Corp. In early June, after spotting a banjo on the Elderly website described as a "Gibson Copy," Gibson filed...
- Research articles 2005-09-01
- The US Medical Care System for the Elderly
- This paper examines the structure of the American medical care system, especially the system of care for the elderly. The paper focuses on three sets of interactions: coverage rules how people get health insurance and who pays for it; the reimbursement system how providers are paid; and access rules (what...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- Elderly Risks
- This issue of Risk Insights focuses on one of the hottest topics in life and health insurance: elderly risks. The lead article discusses GREAT, an assessment technique for elderly lives, so innovative that Gen Re Life Health has submitted an application for a business method patent. Other articles address LTC...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- Health Insurance Coverage and Mortality Among the Near-Elderly
- Uninsured near-elderly people may be particularly at risk for adverse health outcomes. This paper compares mortality of a nationally representative cohort of insured and uninsured near-elderly people with stratification by race; income; and the presence of diabetes, hypertension, or heart disease, using propensity-score methods to adjust for numerous characteristics. Lacking...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- Insomnia Pill Makers Go After Elderly With New 'Fear of Falling'
- Insomnia Pill Makers Go After Elderly With New 'Fear of Falling'RE: Insomnia Pill Makers Go After Elderly With New 'Fear of Falling'Great analysis, Jim. As for sales reps showing docs this study -- even the headlines -- it may not be kosher according to FDA off-label promotion regulations, if it's...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-12
- New York State Senate passes legislation to protect elderly and
- The New York State Senate passed two bills (S.1826, S.1827) that would protect the elderly and disabled by making it a crime to abandon the care of these vulnerable individuals or to financially exploit them. For the elderly or disabled who are in a non-institutionalized environment, the criminal...
- Research articles 2005-04-20
- THE WHITE HOUSE: Background on the impact of health ca care proposals for Hispanic elderly and children.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-29 July 1999-THE WHITE HOUSE: Office of the Press Secretary -- Background on the impact of health care proposals for Hispanic elderly and children C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:280799 I. HISPANIC MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES HAVE IMPORTANT NEEDS FOR QUALITY HEALTH CARE...
- Research articles 1999-07-29
- India's elderly fear for future
- NEW DELHI AFP — Eighty-seven-year-old Indrani Warner sits in her room at one of India's new homes for the elderly surrounded by the mementos of a lifetime. Western-style old age homes are new to India, where children have long been known for revering and caring for elderly parents in...
- Research articles 2007-10-16
- Half of China's urban elderly live alone: report
- SHANGHAI AFP — Nearly half of all elderly people in China's cities live alone and have inadequate healthcare, state media said Wednesday, citing a recent survey. An estimated 49.7 percent of city dwellers aged 60 or older lived in "empty nests," Xinhua news agency said, quoting a survey by...
- Research articles 2008-01-29
- NEWS BRIEFS.(items from various cities include the need for economic development and increased services for the elderly and the young)(Brief Article)
- Caring for Elderly Challenges Local Officials Meeting the needs of the fastest growing segment of the population--the elderly--is a growing concern for municipal officials according to a recent Western Illinois University study. The survey examined the attitudes of mayors regarding the adequacy of services...
- Research articles 1999-07-19
- Peab AB builds elderly housing in Stockholm archipelago
- NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-8 February 2008-Peab AB builds elderly housing in Stockholm archipelagoC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Swedish construction company Peab AB said on Friday (8 February) that it has won SEK95m turnkey contract to build new elderly housing outside Stockholm, Sweden. The contract, awarded by the municipality of...
- Research articles 2008-02-08
- Capio AB divests elderly care operations to Attendo Care AB
- NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-1 September 2004-Capio AB divests elderly care operations to Attendo Care ABC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com The Swedish healthcare group Capio AB said on Wednesday (1 September) that it had sold its elderly care business Capio Omsorg AB to Attendo Care AB. The transaction, which will...
- Research articles 2004-09-01
- Union Bank helping to protect elderly customers
- Union Bank of California officials have launched a financial watch program to educate tellers about potential seams against elderly customers. The bank began the campaign in conjunction with Older Americans Month this month. The program is designed to teach branch employees how to recognize signs of financial exploitation of...
- Research articles 1999-05-10
- Health Status and Medical Treatment of the Future Elderly
- At the request of CMS, RAND researchers developed a demographic economic model framework of health care spending projections, called the Future Elderly Model that allows micro-simulations to be used to ask and answer what-if questions about the effects of changes in health status on future health care costs. This report...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- Social Interactions and the Health Insurance Choices of the Elderly: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study
- The ability of consumers to discern quality differences between health plans is a necessary ingredient for the efficient operation of health insurance markets generally and is likely to be especially important in the non-group market where individuals cannot rely on employers to serve as intermediaries between themselves and their insurer....
- White papers 2004-11-01
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