Elderly Women in Better Hands With Biological Daughters: Study (JAPAN)

Elderly Women in Better Hands With Biological Daughters: Study (JAPAN)

Elderly women in better hands with biological daughters: Study
 By Misty Harris, Postmedia News

Think your mother-in-law will be the death of you? Turns out, it’s more likely the other way around.
A four-year study from Japan finds elderly women under the care of a daughter-in-law are twice as likely to die as those whose caretaker is a biological daughter. Writing in the journal BMC Geriatrics, the researchers describe this as a “survival penalty,” and theorize that the higher mortality risk is partly due to the strained relationship a mother can have with her son’s wife.

Deborah Merrill, a Clark University sociologist cited in the paper, says it likely comes down to differences in intensity.

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SOURCE:     The Vancouver Sun
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Estate Planning for Vacation Homes
Fredrick P. Niemann, Esq., a NJ Estate Planning Attorney Whether it is a palatial estate where Rockefellers and Vanderbilts would feel at home or a rustic cabin in the woods complete with an outhouse, a family vacation home often carries sentimental value that doesn’t show up on financial ledgers. That is all the more reason why […]
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Don’t Forget the Elderly When They Need Your Care

Don’t forget the elderly when they need your care
26 OCTOBER 2010

The hate love relationship that often exists between the media and the politicians appears to be yet continuing occasionally gathering momentum especially when some officious law enforcing officer decides to act with high handed efficiency and the naturally irritated press takes umbrage and various political parties decide that this is a glorious opportunity or them to add their critical dismay!
While this situation provides for amusement, criticism or irritation depending on the political stance of the readers another factor that is a fairly common source of amusement is the continuing concern among ministers and deputy ministers to gain brownie points especially since soon it will be November and chances are that when the President takes oath for a new term of office he may decide to appoint others to positions of ministerial importance.
As elders become more physically frail, they’re less able to stand up to bullying or fight back if attacked. They may not see or hear as well or think as clearly as they used to, leaving openings for unscrupulous people to take advantage of them. Mental or physical ailments may make them more trying companions for the people who live with them. Many elders are abused in diverse ways by their own family members and, most often in their own homes where abusers are apt to be adult children; other family members such as grandchildren; or spouses/partners of elders. Institutional settings especially long-term care facilities can also be sources of elder abuse. Abuse of elders takes many different forms, some involving intimidation or threats against the elderly, some involving neglect, and others involving financial chicanery. Often aged parents are pressurized to write their wills especially the house they live in, in favour of the adult child who often with his family is living with them, and when that is done a certain metamorphosis takes place in the attitude of the adult child and his family.
It is difficult to take care of a senior when he or she has many different needs, and it’s difficult to be elderly when age brings with it infirmities and dependence. Both the demands of caregiving and the needs of the elder can create situations in which abuse is more likely to occur. Furthermore these issues are more compounded when financial constraints prevent proper or necessary health care for the elderly.
Would it not be possible for the government to make some arrangement with the Ceylon Insurance Corporation  to take a small percentage from the monthly pensions of government servants to cover the  health costs needed when they fall sick. This will reduce any burden that their children will have to bear and also make the elderly less vulnerable to neglect . Furthermore, since it is mandatory for all private sector companies to pay EPF. The same system can be worked out in association with the Insurance corporation. Moreover since now great publicity is being given to Farmers and Fishermen’s pensions and moves are being made even to have a pension scheme for the self employed,  providing a health coverage for all pension holders with suitable and graduated premiums will enable the elderly to have more security and less neglect in their old age.
Essentially what is needed to help the elderly is to set up an Authority  with the assistance and the expertise of organizations  like Helpage so that the elderly feel that they are recognized for all the services they have given to society in the best years of their lives.

SOURCE:  The Daily Mirror, UK








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Information For Elders (AUSTRALIA)

By Laura Wakely
19th October 2010
BETWEEN one and five per cent of Victorians aged over 65 years will experience some form of elder abuse.
But senior residents will have the opportunity to learn how to protect their rights at a free session in Wallan tomorrow afternoon.
Seniors Rights Victoria will hold the “Know and Protect Your Rights” information session to give senior residents a better understanding of the types of elder abuse as well as information on the free and confidential helpline, advocacy and legal services available to seniors.
According to the Department of Health and Aged Care, elder abuse is any act that occurs within a relationship where there is an implication of trust, which results in harm to an older person.
Ovens and King Community Health Elder Abuse Prevention Strategy project officer Debbie Hogg said the session was important for seniors and their families to attend.
“Elder abuse is still very taboo as a subject and as such it is very under-reported,” Ms Hogg said.
“The sessions we are running are to increase the awareness (of elder abuse).”
The “Know and Protect Your Rights” information session will run from 2pm to 3pm on the 20 October at the Wallan Multi-Purpose Centre.
For details contact Debbie Hogg, at Ovens and King Community Health Service on 5723 2041.

SOURCE:    The Star News Group

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