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How Adult Day Care can help you maintain your sanity while caring for your loved one with Alzheimer?s Disease

Adult Day Care provides comfort, support, care, companionship and counseling for elderly or Alzheimer's patients who require supervision during daytime hours. It offers patients the opportunity to socialize and to receive health and social services in a stimulating and supportive environment.When you have chosen your Day Care, make sure that their license is current and do not hesitate to ask questions. Among others,?Ask to see results of their state inspections and if there were any deficiencies, ask if they have been corrected.?Observe if the patients are involved in activities.?Does the staff encourage the participants to be as independent as possible??Ask about the staff to client ratio. For Alzheimer's patients, the ratio should be at least one staff member for every eight patients.?Meet the director and the staff.?Is there a lot of staff turnover??What are the emergency procedures??Do they serve meals and how are they prepared? Do they offer food for patients of special dietary needs??Is there a secure outdoor area sufficient for walking and spending time outside? It can be vital for an Alzheimer's patient to spend time outdoors in order to have a good quality of life.?What are the hours of operation??How do they handle participants who wander??How often must the participant attend and for how long??How involved can I be as a family member?Find out what the requirements for admission are. These may include a health history and a physical may be necessary with a current (within the last year) TB test or chest x-ray.

Take time to sit with the director or staff and go through all the processes prior to attending the day care. Of course, taking care of a loved one with Alzeimer's can be very stressful and you may find yourself tired. Sometimes you need time away from your loved one to rejuvenate yourself. This will require making arrangements, which is where Adult Day Care comes in. This time off will allow you to invest some of your energy in your other relationships, to rest and recharge your physical and emotional batteries in order to maintain sanity and quality care for your loved one.

Do the things you used to do before your loved one became ill. Have fun and enjoy yourself. Your loved one will be in good hands and will get involved with other persons with Alzheimer's. They will be given the care they deserve and will enjoy a facility that caters to their needs and interests. You will find that your loved one looks forward to the day care to have fun, make friends (to the extent they are able), and will return home at the end of the day more relaxed.Adult Day care may also help ease the way if one day you have to put your loved one in a nursing home.

Some daycare centers are affiliated with nursing homes. The combination sometimes makes the transition into nursing home care much easier.So, take time for yourself. You deserve it, and your loved one will notice your changes as well..

William G. Hammond, JD is a nationally known elder law attorney and founder of The Alzheimer?s Resource Center. He is a frequent guest on radio and television and has developed innovative solutions to guide families who have a loved one suffering from Alzheimer?s. For more information you can visit his website at www.BeatAlzheimers.com

The Perfect Birthday Present for that Little Girl (No Batteries Required)

The DilemmaAs a mom of a five-year-old girl, I have attended countless birthday parties in the past few years. With each event, comes the inevitable trip to the toy store to find an appropriate gift for the child of honor. I began to dread the gift-buying process. Toys had either too many pieces, were too sophisticated, were too popular and bound to be duplicates, were too expensive, or just not cool enough (according to my resident expert). The toys my daughter received last year were played with once or twice and piled up in the closet along with the rest of the colorful plastic presents of the past.

The Answer: Dress-up Costumes! With no small piece to be choking hazards, no instructions to read, no set up necessary, no batteries required and plenty of variety from which to choose, I had come up with a unique and perfect Birthday Present.Every little girl dreams of being a princess and every little girl love to dress up in beautiful silky dresses, wear crowns, wave magic wands...

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Texas Memory Systems Introduces 400MB/s Entry-Level Solid State Disk

Texas Memory Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the World's Fastest Storage?, announced today availability of a new entry level solid state disk, the RamSan-120 ? the fastest 1U solid state disk on the market and the first solid state disk ever to implement RAID (redundant array of independent DIMMs) -protected dual inline memory modules for the highest levels of reliability. The RamSan-120 delivers over 70,000 random I/Os per second and up to 400 megabytes per second of bandwidth. Its 8-gigabyte capacity is housed in a slim one rack-unit (1U) chassis and is ideal for accelerating smaller databases, database logs and email queues. For Texas Memory Systems, known for its high-end systems, the RamSan-120 establishes a new entry level offering for customers of all sizes and budgets. "Our own tests have shown that a solid state disk like the RamSan-120 can be used to remove I/O bottlenecks that persist even after significant SQL tuning and adding memory to a server," said Donald Burleson, one...

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What Is An iPod

What is an iPod?
Who are you, my mother?
Well, it's a reasonable enough question.
Chances are that you are probably aware that it's an iPod is a little gadget that your grandson wants for his birthday and that its costs a lot of money and what wrong with this transistor radio anyway?
What's wrong?
Everything.

You want to know what is an iPod?
It's a product created by Apple.
Depending on which version you have its possibilities for functionality are seeming to approach limitless.
Lets assume that you're going to pick up the new 5th generation for the grandkid, because if he's like most kids nowadays, he's probably rude, disrespectful and ungrateful?unless he gets exactly what he wants; which is a 5th generation iPod.

When he opens it up and starts it up he'll be looking at the possibility of storing up to 15,000 songs, and oddly enough he will too.
He'll be able to load his...

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Smoking Facts and Figures

A random list of statements, facts and figures relating to smoking. Hopefully this list will give you the final push to be committed to giving up smoking. When you have read it, visit www.abouthowtoquitsmoking.com for further information, help and advice. If you smoke more than 25 cigarettes a day are 25 times more likely to die from cancer and almost twice as likely to die from heart disease. Each cigarette on average takes 11 minutes off your life.

Fifty diseases are caused by smoking causes. Twenty of them are fatal. Seven out of ten smokers say that they want to give up. Nicotine stimulates the central nervous system, which increases the heart rate and blood pressure. If you carry on smoking you have a one in two chance of dying from it.

Smoking is the number one avoidable cause of premature death in the UK. Smoking related diseases cost the UK National Health Service about ?1.7 billion a year. If you want...

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Stocking Stuffer Gift Ideas for Teen Girls

It's fun to buy stocking stuffers for teen girls. I always use this time of year as an opportunity to give them the little treats they want and/or need throughout the year but that I don't want to spend the extra money for. Here are some items our teenage daughters will find in their Christmas stockings this year: $5 Starbucks card AA batteries for portable CD player/MP3 player Matching knit camisole/panties Fun fashionable socks Small hoop earrings Chocolates and hard candies I try to find them things that they can use but will also not necessarily expect in their stockings. Listen for clues for what to get when you're out shopping with them. They really make it quite easy! Here are some other ideas: Movie tickets Fast food gift certificates Perfume/body spray Lip gloss Nail polish/manicure set Disposable camera/film CD cleaner/scratch remover Journal/pen Small inspirational book Tear-off calendar Car or room air freshener.

Rachel Paxton is a freelance writer and mom who is the... Stocking Stuffer Gift Ideas for Teen Girls

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Joey Jung Named Chief Technology Officer of Power Technology, Inc

HOUSTON, TX (ContentDesk) November 18, 2004 -- Bernard J. Walter, CEO of Power Technology stated "Joey's outstanding credentials as a Master of Applied Science in Chemical Engineering, a Professional Engineer, his years of experience as a Senior Research Scientist for Fuel Cell and Battery Technology, and a co-inventor of our Patented Battery make him the perfect candidate to bring our technology to market.
We are delighted and grateful he has joined the Company and believe he will accelerate the time to market for our batteries."About Power Technology, Inc. Power Technology, Inc. is a research and development company that is engaged in activities regarding alternative battery technology which use patented, ultra light materials that have up to 50% less weight and 90% less lead content of conventional batteries while delivery 200% more energy efficiency.

The Company is in the early stages of commercializing its battery technology to serve the $14 billion industrial battery...

Joey Jung Named Chief Technology Officer of Power Technology, Inc

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