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Starting a business instead of retiring

 
Older entrepreneurs may have the advantage over their younger counterparts due to experience and potentially greater financial resources. In 2012, Kauffman Ewing Institute found that those businesses that survived startup were more likely to have primary owners older than 45.

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Could Google provide the answers for medical questions?

Need your glucose levels to be monitored? It might be as simple as placing a contact in your eye or wearing a pair of glasses. At least that’s what the techies are betting. Bloomberg reported that at least four Google employees met with regulators from the Federal Drug Administration (FDA). Some of the employees supposed to have been part of the meeting have done research on biosensors. The meeting was between Google staff and FDA employees who regulate eye devices and diagnostics for heart conditions.

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Nursing home admissions form does not violate federal law

 
Katie White was admitted to Charles Morris Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Pennsylvania on March 11, 2009. As part of her admittance, her son, Solomon White acting as her POA signed the admission agreement as a responsible party. This obligated him to apply his mother’s income and assets to her care and held him personally responsible for any misapplication or misappropriations of his mother’s resources.

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Just in time for the holidays: report ties BMI to health care costs

 
A report from Duke Medicine found that health care costs correspond to an individual’s body mass index (BMI). As their BMI increases so too does their health costs. The study published in the journal Obesity, reported that researchers found that medical and drug claims rose gradually with each unit increase in BMI, beginning at a BMI of 19 (considered the low end of healthy).

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Most Medicare patients have good access to doctors

 
Media reports often claim that Medicare patients are unable to find physicians willing to take Medicare and for a variety of reasons are forced to go without medical care. These are troubling concerns as having good access to quality care means being able to find a doctor to see and then being able to schedule timely appointments to see them. It is especially disquieting as due to the aging of the Baby Boomers, the number of new Medicare beneficiaries is expected to grow at a rate of 2 million a year.

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Study finds that not all AL facilities are created equal

 
One alternative to nursing home living is an assisted living facility. These come in all sizes. That statement might seem to be a comment worthy of a “duh” response but the reason that the size of a facility has any bearing is that a new study found that the size of a community determined the demographics of a community. The study analyzed information from the 2010 National Survey of Residential Care Facilities by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

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