Office of Aging & Disabled Citizens Digest

Louisville Metro Government sent this bulletin at 03/19/2012 02:12 PM EDT

Louisville Metro Community Services and Revitalization

Office for Aging and Disabled Citizens

March 19, 2012

 

 TOPIC 1 Reel Recovery Retreat on May 21-23, 2012 

TOPIC 2 Nominate Your Medistar - Deadline Extended To March 22 

TOPIC 3 Administration on Aging: News and Info

TOPIC 4 Be Part Of The Energy- Volunteer! With RSVP

TOPIC 5 FYI: A Service of the Norton Healthcare Office of Church and Health Ministries

TOPIC 6 Disability Scoop

TOPIC 7 MUSCL SENIOR WELLNESS CENTER’s NEW FACEBOOK PAGE

TOPIC 8 New Guide to LGBT Inclusive Services Now Available!

TOPIC 9 National Senior Citizens Law Center

TOPIC 10 MENTAL HEALTH IN THE HEADLINES Week of March 12, 2012

TOPIC 11 Lynn Harrelson’s Stay Well Tablet

TOPIC 12 NCOA Week: Fight senior hunger | Save on Aging in America

 

TOPIC TITLE 1 Reel Recovery Retreat on May 21-23, 2012

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Dear All:  We are having a Reel Recovery Retreat on May 21-23, 2012.  Reel Recovery is a fly-fishing support retreat for any man who has had cancer.  Would you please duplicate the attachments and get them out to any man that you know or that your agency is working with who has cancer?  Men also can use the Reel Recovery website, www.reelrecovery.org to sign up for the retreat.

 

It is totally free to any man who goes.  We welcome your referrals.  Please call or e-mail me with any questions that you have.

 

Thank you so much,
Ruby Gordon
Coordinator, Reel Recovery KY/IN
(502)459-5545 (H)
(502)905-3775 (C)
rsgandrbg@bellsouth.net

 

Kentucky & Southern Indiana

Fly-Fishing Retreat for Men with Cancer

 

May 21-23, 2012

Wooded Glen in Henryville, IN

(Wooded Glen was not damaged in the tornado)

 

REEL RECOVERY is a national non-profit organization that conducts fly-fishing retreats for men recovering from cancer. Our mission is to help men in the recovery process by sharing with them the healing powers of the sport of fly-fishing, while providing a safe, supportive environment to explore their personal experiences with cancer, with others who share their stories. Retreats are offered at no cost to the participants and are led by professional facilitators and expert fly-fishing instructors. Reel Recovery provides all meals, lodging and fly-fishing equipment, and no previous fishing experience is required.

A maximum of 14 men are invited to participate.

 

The Retreat Starts:                4:00 PM Monday, May 21

The Retreat Ends:                  2:00 PM Wednesday, May 23

Primary Service Area:                        Kentucky, Southern Indiana

Eligibility:                                 Men recovering from cancer

 

To apply for this event, please fill out on-line form at www.reelrecovery.org

 

For more information, contact Reel Recovery at 800-699-4490

 

Funding: KY Cancer Program, Derby City Fly-Fishing Club, & Wal-Mart

 

 

TOPIC TITLE 2 Nominate Your Medistar - Deadline Extended To March 22

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Nominate your MediStar - deadline extended to March 22

 

Our healthcare industry is filled with stars, both recognized and unrecognized.  Take a moment to nominate an individual or organization that you feel has made a difference in healthcare.

 

Nomination is easy and takes less than two minutes.  Make sure your healthcare leader is nominated today.

Nominate here.

 

For additional information:

Sally McMahon

sally@igemedia.com

(502) 813-7403

www.medistarawards.com

 

 

TOPIC TITLE 3 Administration on Aging: News and Info

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Monday, March 12, 2012

In This Issue:

 

Monday, March 19, 2012

In This Issue:

 

 

TOPIC TITLE 4 Be Part Of The Energy- Volunteer! With RSVP

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Greetings!

 

Spring is swirling and sprouting all around us.  Be part of the energy- volunteer!  The Louisville Metro RSVP (Retired & Senior Volunteer Program), part of the Office for Aging & Disabled Citizens, has received requests from local agencies asking for volunteers age 55 and over to “reach out” and help in the following areas:

 

  • Help with disaster recovery clerical tasks and phone response center at Louisville American Red Cross office and/or So. Indiana temporary center
  • Be a “BIG” influence on a Little person’s life through Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Kentuckiana – a few hours a week of caring listening, shared laughter, guided encouragement! 
  • LEARN and serve as you help with herbal and botanical gardens at Riverside, Farnsley-Moremen Landing’s free garden club  and at the Annual Plant & Herb Sale, April 14-16
  • Play games and share healthy eating habits in 8-week, one-hour-a-week course with youth, varying schedules
  • Help serve lunch, read simple books to pre-school children in west side day care; 3 hrs, once a week or more
  • Help with restart and weekly operations of St. Joseph Home’ Thrift Store (closed by January fire) due to reopen in April
  • Help with sorting, packaging or route pick-ups of Dare to Care donations
  • Assist/drive U.S. armed forces veterans or other seniors to and from medical and personal needs appointments

 

RSVP is federally funded, locally sponsored by the Louisville Metro Office for Aging and Disabled Citizens and provides FREE benefits to volunteers while serving.  Call 574-1530 for details!

THANK  YOU!

 

 

TOPIC TITLE 5 FYI: A Service of the Norton Healthcare Office of Church and Health Ministries

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The FYI is a service of the Norton Healthcare Office of Church and Health Ministries, (502) 629-2700.  If you would like to submit health information and community health and/or wellness events for consideration in this FYI bulletin, email  fyi@nortonhealthcare.org. Send the information at least three weeks in advance.

 

Spring storms have arrived with a fury.  Create a preparedness plan for your family, faith community, business and neighborhood by visiting www.ready.gov. 

 

Disaster Relief: To volunteer goods or services in Kentucky, visit Kentucky Emergency Management.  To volunteer goods or services in Indiana, visit Indiana VOAD.

 

Save the Date! The Louisville Public Health & Wellness Center for Health Equity and the Norton Healthcare Centers for Prevention & Wellness invite you to Health Equity Summit II, Setting a Vision for Tangible Change: Moving from Awareness to Action, Monday, April 16, from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Muhammad Ali Center, 144 N. Sixth St. This program is free, but space is limited.  Call (502) 629-1234 to reserve your place.

 

Nurses and other health care providers serving on a health ministries team are invited to a workshop to learn about the newly published Faith Community Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, 2nd Edition, 2012.  The workshop will be held on Friday, March 23, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with registration at 8:30 a.m. at the Norton Weight Management Center, 1000 Dupont Road.  There is no charge for Norton Healthcare employees.  The fee for all others is $35.  Nursing contact hours will be available.  To download a brochure and to register, visit NortonHealthcare.com/CHM.

 

On Monday, March 19, an education program titled Dealing with the Feelings of Placing a Loved One in a Long-term-care Facility will be sponsored by the Nazareth Home from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the chapel at 2000 Newburg Road.  

 

The Westport Road Seniors group next program will be a gourmet cooking demonstration. Watch and learn as the chefs from Atria of St. Matthews prepare a gourmet meal Wednesday, March 21, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Suburban Christian Church, 7515 Westport Road. Call (502) 896-2316 to register.

 

Are you caring for a loved one who is over 60? Get the support you deserve! Jewish Family & Career Services and the Southwest Family YMCA Adult Health Day Center are offering a Caregiver Support Group on the third Wednesday of the month, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the Southwest YMCA Adult Health Day Center facility, 2800 Fordham Road. The first meeting will be held March 21. Call Jo Ann Kalb at (502) 452-6341 ext. 335 for more information.

 

Ups and Downs, a support group for those dealing with depression or anxiety, meets the fourth Thursday of the month. The next meeting is March 22 at St. Michael Church, 3795 Stone Lakes Dr. from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Call (502) 553-7386 for more information.

 

The Louisville Urban League is recruiting parents for the second session of the 2012 Parent Leadership Academy, a six-week training program to help parents develop skills and prepare them to engage in educational advocacy in their children’s schools. For more information, call (502) 566-3383.

 

On Friday and Saturday, March 23-24, the U of L Saturday Academy will sponsor the fifth annual Sistah Summit, Moving from Pain to Power: (The) Help is on the Way.  Talks and activities about issues affecting the well-being of black women will be discussed.  For more information or to register by the March 17 deadline, contact LyShanna Cunningham at l.cunningham@louisville.edu or (502) 852-2658.  The event will be held at Hotel Louisville, 120 W. Broadway, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on March 23 and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on March 24.

 

St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church will sponsor a Health Fair on Sunday, March 25, from noon to 3 p.m. This event is free and is open to the public.  It will be located at the St. Andrew Academy gym, 7718 Columbine Drive.

 

Protecting Children in Your Church: Training for the Faith Based Community is a course scheduled Tuesday, March 27, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Green River Area Development District Office, 300 Gradd Way, Owensboro. Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma, also known as “Shaken Baby Syndrome,” is the leading cause of death from child abuse. Recent legislation passed in Kentucky requires training on recognition, intervention and prevention of abusive head trauma for a variety of Kentucky citizens and professionals who work with children. Call Kelli King at (270) 926-4433 to register by March 19.

 

Scope it Out: Demystifying Colonoscopy and Colon Cancer is the topic to be discussed on Tuesday, March 27, at 6:30 p.m. at the Marshall Women’s Health & Education Center, Classroom 1B, Norton Medial Plaza III – Suburban, 4121 Dutchmans Lane. Hear about the colonoscopy screening, preparation methods, cancer diagnoses and the importance of early screening. When caught early, colon cancer is one of the most curable cancers. To register, call (502) 629-1234.

 

A free seminar, No More Knee Pain, will be held Tuesday, March 27, from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Norton Weight Management Center, 1000 Dupont Road. Come and hear about options for treating knee pain. To register, call (502) 629-1234 or visit NortonHealthcare.com/PartsInMotion.

 

Westport Road Baptist Church, 9705 Westport Road, is presenting Unemployment: A Crisis of Faith, at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 29. This free program is for faith based leaders to teach, learn and explore ways to help those who are feeling the devastating effects of unemployment. For more information, contact Brenda Higgins at the Interfaith Job Transition Ministry at (502) 425-0251 or email brendahiggins@insightbb.com.

 

The Marshall Women’s Health & Education Center will present Mind and Body Techniques for Oncology Patients and Caregivers on Thursday, April 5, from 10:30 a.m. to noon in Classroom 1B at the Norton Medical Plaza-III, Suburban, 4121 Dutchmans Lane. Therapist and cancer survivor Judith Stubbs will present techniques such as guided imagery and creative visualization to complement traditional cancer therapies. Call (502) 899-6888 to register.

 

April is Party for the Planet: Celebration of the Earth at the Louisville Zoo. Join the Louisville Water Company for a unique look at how we use one of the earth’s most precious resources on Saturday, April 14 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information, visit LouisvilleZoo.org.

 

Do you suffer from chronic headaches or migraines? The Role of Nutrition in Headache Prevention will be discussed on Thursday, April 5, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Marshall Women’s Health & Education Center, Norton Medical Plaza III—Suburban, Classroom  1 A, 4121 Dutchmans Lane. To register for this free class, visit NortonHealthcare.com/calendar  or call (502) 629-1234.

 

The annual Trimble County Community Health Fair will be held Thursday, April 12, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Trimble County Middle School Gym, 116 Wentworth Ave., Bedford. Screenings, disaster preparedness information, health services and resources will be available. For information, call Cheryl Teague, Family Resource and Youth Services, at (502) 255-5100, ext. 2414.

 

Care of the Soul in Medicine, featuring Thomas Moore, Ph.D., author of “Care of the Soul” is the title of the fourth annual Medical-Spirituality Conference at Sinclair Community College, Dayton, Ohio on Thursday, April 12, from 8:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. For more information, visit www.med.wright.edu/med-spirit.

 

A free Community Health Fair will be held at First Presbyterian Church, 1328 Griffith Ave., in Owensboro, Kentucky on Saturday, April 14, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.  Approximately 34 vendors with health information for all will be present.  For more information, call Carol Norris at (270) 684-0351 or the church at (270) 684-1467.

 

A Holocaust Yom HaShoah Exhibit will be shown in the Patio Gallery at the Jewish Community Center, 3630 Dutchmans Lane, from April 15 to May 2. This exhibit includes works by locally, nationally and internationally recognized artists. For additional information and gallery times, call (502) 459-0660 or visit www.jewishlouisville.org.

 

The Legal Aid Society is offering free legal clinics during March and April. A reservation is required. Contact the Legal Aid Society at (502) 584-1254 to make your reservation. Clinic topics include foreclosure, divorce, ask-a-lawyer and small claims.

 

The Kentucky Community Crisis Response Board (KCCRB) is a state resource that ensures organized, rapid and effective crisis intervention response in the aftermath of crisis and disaster. This free 24-hour response team can be activated during natural disasters, industrial accidents, school accidents, multi-casualty incidents, terrorism and situations resulting from violence or hostage. An authorized person from an agency must call (502) 607-5781; toll free (888) 522-7228; State Emergency Operations Center (800) 255-2587, or visit www.kccrb.ky.gov to request services.

 

 

TOPIC TITLE 6 Disability Scoop

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Why Autism Moms Earn Less

A new study shows that mothers of children with autism earn 56 percent less on average than moms with typically developing kids, but the reason why might come as a surprise.

New ADA Rules Leave Some Scrambling

As a new round of accessibility requirements take effect this week, some businesses are struggling to comply.

Oldest Man With Down Syndrome Lives To 83

A Minnesota man recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest with Down syndrome has died at age 83.

 

More News

States To Get Millions To Improve Crisis Care

Report Favoring Restraint, Seclusion Stirs Backlash

Magazine Says Vanderbilt, Kansas Best For Special Education

Walgreens Bets Big On Employees With Disabilities

Parents Net Millions After Daughter Born With Down Syndrome

 

Read at: http://www.disabilityscoop.com/

 

 

TOPIC TITLE 7 MUSCL SENIOR WELLNESS CENTER’s NEW FACEBOOK PAGE

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CHECK OUT

MUSCL SENIOR WELLNESS CENTER

AT SCHNITZELBURG'S

BRAND NEW FACEBOOK PAGE!!!

It's still under construction but it's

well worth the look.

 

JUST CLICK ON THIS LINK:

http://www.facebook.com/musclseniorcenter

 

 

TOPIC TITLE 8 New Guide to LGBT Inclusive Services Now Available!

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I am so pleased to announce that the National Resource Center on LGBT Aging has released our first comprehensive guide for aging service professionals, offering a range of tools and tips on creating affirming services for LGBT older adults. This guide, Inclusive Services for LGBT Older Adults: A Practical Guide to Creating Welcoming Agencies, can help agencies foster a welcoming environment for many diverse populations, including LGBT older adults. 

 

At the National Resource Center on LGBT Aging, we are frequently contacted by aging service providers and LGBT organizations that are interested in working with LGBT older adults but are unsure about how to best serve and support them. They most often ask: How is aging as an LGBT adult different than aging as a heterosexual and/or non-transgender adult, and how might we reflect and honor these differences in our agencies?

 

This guide was created to answer these questions and increase awareness of the unique barriers that LGBT older adults face, as well as the many ways to improve and expand the continuum of care and services available. To help in creating this guide, we surveyed service providers and professionals across the country, all of whom have taken various steps to help make their agencies safe and inclusive for LGBT older adults. We also relied on our partner organizations (listed below) for their expertise on these issues. 

 

The guide is available at our website; http://tiny.cc/bedfbw. And as always, thank you for your support as we continue to help every LGBT older adult successfully age with dignity and respect.

 

All the best,

Hilary Meyer
Director, National Resource Center on LGBT Aging

 

 

TOPIC TITLE 9 National Senior Citizens Law Center

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Inside the February Issue

Health Care: Leadership Recognized on Dual Eligibles Issues

Federal Rights: Major Court Access Case Decided, But It's Not Over Yet

NSCLC Helps: Rhon Koch

 

Viewpoint:

Don't Forget SSI

It is hard to imagine trying to live on just $698 a month, even with rent subsidies and health coverage from Medicare and/or Medicaid. But that's what we expect of millions of people who rely on the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program.

 

The poorest two million people over age 65 and 6 million others with severe disabilities receive SSI.  One out of every three age 65 or over applying for SSI has a primary language other than English and a disproportionately large share is African-American.

 

These Americans, all of them at least age 65 or unable to work because of disabilities, live on an income that provides little more than bare survival. And, there's more. An SSI recipient cannot have more than $2,000 in available resources and, in most states, cannot have a monthly total income exceeding $718, an amount significantly below poverty level.

 

Not everyone receives the full $698 federal benefit. For example, if you are receiving in-kind food or shelter, you will be paid at a lower rate, probably $233 less. And, while the cost of living has gone up over 400% since 1972, the limit on the amount of resources an SSI recipient can have has increased only a barely perceptible 33% in the same 40-year period.

 

There is much talk about changing Social Security, but we must not forget the SSI program or the people it helps. Any changes to Social Security may have serious, negative consequences for those receiving SSI. We continue to support reforms to the SSI program, including increasing the benefit rate, improving the appeals process, and ending draconian restrictions such as the inhumane restrictions on immigrant eligibility.  Also, if improvements to Social Security are made, we must assure that those beneficiaries who also receive SSI receive the full benefit of whatever improvements are made.

 

P.S. Our 2011 annual report is online. Please take a look at http://tiny.cc/krdfbw

 

Paul Nathanson, Executive Director 

 

 

TOPIC TITLE 10 MENTAL HEALTH IN THE HEADLINES Week of March 12, 2012

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Mental Health in the Headlines is a weekly newsletter produced by Mental Health America, providing the latest developments at Mental Health America and summaries of news, views and research in the mental health field. Coverage of news items in this publication does not represent Mental Health America’s support for or opposition to the stories summarized or the views they express.

 

TODAY’S HEADLINE

Children with even relatively mild concussions can have persistent attention and memory problems a year after their injuries…more

 

IN THE NEWS

Suicide, Mental Health Conditions Climb among Military: The rate of suicide among U.S. Army soldiers has soared since the start of the Iraq War, according to an Army study. The analysis finds an 80 percent increase in suicides among Army personnel between 2004 and 2008. The rise parallels increasing rates of depression, anxiety and other mental health conditions in soldiers, the study said. The high number of suicides are "unprecedented in over 30 years of U.S. Army records," according to the authors of the study, which was published in the journal Injury Prevention. The authors found that about 40 percent of the Army's suicides in 2008 could be associated with the U.S. military escalation in Iraq.  From 1977 to 2003, suicide rates in the Army closely matched the rates of suicide in the civilian population, and were even on a downward trend. But after 2004, the rates began to climb, outpacing the rates in civilians by 2008. (ABC News, 3/8/12)

 

Concussion Symptoms in Children Can Linger: Children with even relatively mild concussions can have persistent attention and memory problems a year after their injuries, according to a new study. In most cases, symptoms resolve within a few months. But the study suggests that problems may linger for up to 20 percent. Problems like forgetfulness were more likely to linger than fatigue, dizziness and other physical complaints, the study found. The study, which is reported in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, finds that even a pretty small knock to a child's head can lead to problems for months afterward. (Medpage Today, 3/5/12)

 

Study Linking Abortion and Mental Health Problems Called Flawed: A study purporting to find a link between abortions and mental illness does not hold up to scrutiny, according to a new report in the Journal of Psychiatric Research. The original study has been a source of contention since its publication in 2009, when critics pointed out flaws in the statistical analysis. Those errors triggered a correction by Coleman and her colleagues, but outside researchers found other problems with the paper. "This is not a scholarly difference of opinion; their facts were flatly wrong. This was an abuse of the scientific process to reach conclusions that are not supported by the data," study researcher Julia Steinberg, an assistant professor in the University of California, San Francisco's department of psychiatry, said in a statement." (Time, 3/8/12)

 

Adopted Children More Likely to Abuse Drugs if Biological Parent Did—Study:  Adopted children are twice as likely to use drugs as other children if their biological parents used them, according a new study. But the research also showed that adopted children who lived with families with problems, such as divorce, death or criminal activity, also had a high risk of drug abuse. The study of a Swedish cohort of adopted children, reported in the Archives of General Psychiatry, showed that 4.5 percent of adoptees had drug-abuse problems compared 2.9 percent of the general population. Out of the adopted people, 8.6 percent had at least one biological parent with a drug problem, while only 4.2 percent did not have any family history of substance abuse. Abuse risk also doubled if the adopted individual and a biological sibling or half-sibling with substance abuse problems. The rate was also the same if they had adopted siblings with drug abuse history. (Medpage Today, 3/5/12)

 

Analysis—Antidepressants Work Across the Board: A new analysis of drug studies finds that antidepressants work for both severe and mild depression. Researchers, who reported their findings in the Archives of General Psychiatry, found that more patients taking antidepressants had a substantial improvement in their symptoms than those taking a drug-free placebo pill, regardless of how severe those symptoms were to begin with. However, not everyone in the studies improved. On average, about five people had to be treated with one of the drugs for one person to feel better, and the benefits seemed to be diminished among some of the oldest patients. (Reuters, 3/8/12)

 

Vets with Mental Health Conditions More Likely to Receive, Abuse Painkillers:  Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are more likely to receive opioids for pain if they have mental health disorders and abuse those drugs, researchers report. The study, reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, examined 141,029 veterans of the recent wars after their return home. Among them, 15,676 were prescribed opioid painkillers for 20 or more consecutive days. It found that over 17 percent of vets with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder received the drugs compared with 11.7 percent of vets with other mental health diagnoses and 6.5% of vets with no mental health diagnosis. (Los Angeles Times, 3/6/12)

 

Psychologists Call for Tailored Mental Health Services for Immigrants: Mental health services treating immigrants to the United States need to be better tailored to specific cultures and needs, psychologists say. Immigrants face psychological implications of racism, discrimination and racial profiling, while their expressions of distress vary across cultures, said a report of the American Psychological Association's Presidential Task Force Report on Immigration. Most evidence-based psychological treatments currently used with immigrants are based on research performed from ethnic minorities rather than immigrants, the report said. It found that first-generation immigrant populations fare better than subsequent generations in overall and behavioral health, and educational outcomes, even though they often face multiple stressors, such as poverty, difficult work environments and social isolation. (UPI, 3/10/12)

 

Alzheimer’s To Cost $200 Billion in 2012: Alzheimer’s disease will cost the U.S. an estimated $200 billion in 2012, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. The organization says that costs for treating Alzheimer’s continue to rise because most people with the neurodegenerative disorder tend to have other chronic conditions as well, such as diabetes, hypertension or heart disease. The total includes the direct costs of caring for patients, including health care, long-term care, and hospice. In the absence of advances in prevention and treatment, the cost of caring for patients with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias could reach $1.1 trillion (in 2012 dollars) by 2050, a trend driven by an aging population, according to the report. (Time, 3/8/12)

 

IN DEPTH

ABC News looks at whether warning signs missed in Kandahar tragedy.

NPR reports on “Trauma, Not Radiation, Is Key Concern In Japan.”

The Huffington Post writes on “Former Congressman Patrick Kennedy's Mission: A Moonshot Into the Mind.”

Bloomberg examines “Walmart Therapy” to treat PTSD.

The New York Times Magazine reports on conversion disorder in an article on “The Mystery of 18 Twitching Teenagers in Le Roy.”

Reporting on Health looks at “What If Mental Illness is a Universal Experience? A Path Away from Stigma to Timely Treatment and Prevention.”

IRIN analyzes “What ails Cambodia's mental health system?”

 

Latest Research

Statins May Lower Depression Risk: People with heart disease who take cholesterol-lowering statins may have a lower risk of depression than those who don't take the drugs, according to a new study. Researchers recruited 965 people with stable coronary artery disease at outpatient clinics in the San Francisco Bay Area, tracking their statin use and depressive symptoms over six years. Published in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, the study found that statin users had fewer symptoms of depression at the start of the study. And among the 776 people free of depression at the beginning, those who took statins were significantly less likely than those who did not to develop depression over the course of the study. Even after adjusting for age, sex, smoking, education, income, social support, baseline depression symptoms, medication use and other factors, statin use was associated with a decrease of 38 percent in the odds of developing depressive symptoms during the follow-up period. (The New York Times, 3/6/12)

 

Youngest Children in a Class More Likely to be Diagnosed with ADHD: The youngest children in a class are more likely to be diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than older children in the same class, according to a new study. Canadian researchers looked at ADHD diagnosis rates depending on whether children were born right before or after the school enrollment cutoff date. They found that children born in December were 39 percent more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD and 48 percent more likely to be receiving medication to treat it than children in the same class born in January. The fact that there was such a difference in the rate of ADHD diagnoses simply based on children’s birthdates strongly suggests that less mature students may have been inappropriately labeled with an attention deficit disorder. (Time, 3/6/12)

 

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TOPIC TITLE 11 Lynn Harrelson’s Stay Well Tablet

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Read newsletter at: http://tiny.cc/89ffbw

 

 

TOPIC TITLE 12 NCOA Week: Fight senior hunger | Save on Aging in America

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NCOA Week: Fight senior hunger | Save on Aging in America

Read newsletter at: http://tiny.cc/94ffbw

 

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Cindy Venable
Louisville Metro Community Services & Revitallization
Office for Aging and Disabled Citizens
810 Barret Ave
Louisville, KY 40204
502-574-5092
502-574-5548 Fax
cindy.venable@louisvilleky.gov