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| The aging starts to develarse slowly. For the same, it is possible that his parents are experiencing problems that have relation with an illness |
| Parents who age: Five signs of problems of health |
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Washington Hispanic
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| Pay attention to the presentation of his parents. Notice if they support his routine of personal hygiene, if his clothings are clean and if in general it is evident that they take the time to meet well. |
If his parents are aging, you must make sure that they should have his covered needs and that they will preserve his health per years. Nevertheless, difficult monitorear is the health of the parents if they live in another city or country. For the same, the next time that should travel to see them ask them on his health and if it can help them to support his independence.
Often, the parents will not admit that they need help, in other occasions it is possible that they do not realize. For the same, we present five elements that you must fix and that will help him to know if his parents can be suffering from a health condition.
1: Have they lost weight?
Many people think that to be thin is healthy, but to lose weight without doing either exercise or diet is a sign that something does not walk well. The loss of weight can indicate a problem of health as cancer, dementia, depression, cardiac flaw or malnutrition. Speak with his parents on changes in his feeding and in the need to see the doctor. Eye, that often the loss of weight has not to do with an illness, but in spite of having the energy and the skills to cook. The important thing is that it reports the topic with them.
2: Are they sure in his house?
Look in the house of his parents for any element that it indicates that they are having problems in taking care and supporting his residence. Do the lights work, they take care of the courtyard, there are dirty plates in the dishwasher, they have clean clothes, the house of old newspapers is full?
Think it about safety terms. Be already the stairs for the falls danger or the state of his vision and audition. If it sees that they have difficulties to read the medical recipes or to listen to the recommendations of the doctor it can mean a threat to his safety. Also, a major adult with dementia can that I burned the pans because one forgets that he is cooking something. A garden badly elegant can indicate depression, on not having found the desire of taking care of it. If there are ampoules that have not changed it can point out that he cannot take charge of this type of home-loving tasks. Report this with them from the point of view of the threats to his safety, and plans how to solve it.
3: Do his parents look after?
Pay attention to the presentation of his parents. Notice if they support his routine of personal hygiene, if his clothings are clean and if in general it is evident that they take the time to meet well.
The time non-taking to be seen well, how to bathe, to clean the teeth and other basic care can be a sign of problems of health. Dementia, depression or physical problems can be the cause and there are the most common reason at the time of placing the biggest adults in asylums or houses of reception.
4: How do they feel?
See how the fortitude of his parents is. The whole world has good and bad days, but a drastic change in how he feels or how it perceives the future can be a depression sign. Ask his parents how they feel and notice if they turn out to be shy or sad.
Ask him on his activities, if they speak with friends, if they have lost interest in his puzzles or other daily actions. Do they go to community clubs or to the church? In the case that the answers are negative, converse with them and say to them that he thinks that they can be depressed, and on the need to look for help.
5: Is it difficult to them to move?
If his parents it has any condition that prevents them from moving, difficulties go to abide to look after if the same. For example, they can experience muscular weakness, problems to the joints or other conditions that one prevents them from moving freely.
Put attention to how they walk, if it is that they do not like covering big distances, if they have arthritis of knee or of hip, if they need a cane or walking path. Speak with them on how facilitating his displacements.
If his parents have difficulties to stay standing, this can mean a falls risk, what can be mortal. For the same, help his parents to him to avoid falls doing the necessary changes to his house.
What to do?
If he believes that it is necessary to look for help, there is a series of services that you can obtain to solve some of the biggest problems of his adults. For example, there are agencies that give services to domicile to attend to the parents in medical terms or of every day, how to clean or to do steps. In medical terms, speak with the doctor to obtain certain orientation and communicate to him what you think, since the family has much that to say on the well-being of the biggest adults.
See also what type of programs of assistance is in his community.
| Interview |
| Why to have a medical insurance |
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| Sonia Vidal. Photo: Felipe Lagos/WH. |
For Felipe Lagos
Washington Hispanic
The first step that someone who is looking for a medical insurance must do is to find out, to understand what type of plans exists and to do investigation. To have medical insurance makes possible that the persons enter to the system of health of the country, says the independent agent Sonia Vidal.
When someone looks for a medical insurance in this country, a series of elements must take into consideration that, although they will not simplify his life, if they will do the difference in case that needs the coverage for some medical reason.
Words like deductible, copayments, cosure and maximum annual payment can confuse him, but they will prevent from falling down in the bankruptcy in case of suffering a catastrophic illness.
For the same, for Sonia Vidal, independent insurance agent, the most important thing is that the persons compare the coverage and the prices between the different insurances. “The first step that someone who is looking for a medical insurance must do is to find out, to understand what type of plans exists and to do investigation. If anybody cannot digest all the information it can obtain a reagent, because the prices are the same. The difference is that the agent is going to help to in the application process and to explain the plans in depth”.
If it has some question it can call Sonia Vidal to (703 625 6493.
— When someone is looking for insurance: in what things is it necessary to fix?
“ Principally there are four things, deductible annual, the copayments, the coinsurance and the maximum annual payment. The deductible one is what the person must pay out before the insurance begin to pay. The copayment is what it is necessary to cancel for a service. This payment is shared by the insurance. The coinsurance is what the person must pay after the deductible one has been satisfied. And the maximum annual payment is what the persons must pay out like ceiling after the deductible one and the coinsurance have been satisfied. Namely from this point from now on the company pays 100 %. The deductible one can be a $ 0, $ 500, thousand, two thousand or up to eight thousand dollars. If someone has a deductible one for five thousand dollars and they intern him, this means that the insurance will begin to pay from five thousand dollars from now on”.
— This means that while more under the deductible one, more expensive the insurance.
“ Exact. Once the persons realize well these concepts, they must analyze his needs. For example, he must think how many times it has gone to the doctor in one year, the chronic conditions if they are, if it must cover children (not to use a deductible high place), how much they cover the medicines, if someone thinks of having children how much covers the maternity, things like that. Some persons say to me that they want a good and cheap plan, and I say to them that that does not exist because the good plans are expensive”.
— What are the advantages and disadvantages of a HMO and a PPO?
“ A HMO has the advantage that the coverage is more finished. In the PPO the advantage is that the person can go to any doctor who wants because there is coverage inside and out of the network. The disadvantage of the HMO is that it is not possible to go out of the network”.
— What so much are the health insurances doing for attending to the needs for the Hispanic community with his cultural peculiarities?
“ The truth one is gtrabajando in that. There are some insurances that are extracting the applications in Spanish and they have others a web site for Hispanics. The problem is not that the insurances do not want, but there are many laws that regulate the insurances, therefore so that something is approved there is many regulation, for the demands risk. But if they are treating. Another problem is the doctors' absence that they speak Spanish”.
— Is there any insurance that does not rise every year?
“ Not, these raise enough, it is a national problems. It is of hoping that the government should take a decision”.
| To his health |
| Marked cough? Care with the tuberculosis |
For Maria Gómez
the president of Mary's Center
On having spoken about tuberculosis, it is as if we were alluding to the old times in which this epidemic was affecting entire populations, taking many of his inhabitants towards the death.
Regrettably this illness did not remain in the past; it keeps on being equal of dangerous, to the point that has catalogued like the cause number one of deaths for contagious illnesses in the world.
It is anticipated that there are more than two billion persons with tuberculosis in the whole planet, that is to say, a third part of the whole world population is infected and every year approximately eight millions of persons more acquire it. It is as if every year all the inhabitants of El Salvador — that at present it has almost 6 millions — and almost half of the inhabitants of Nicaragua — that has almost 5 millions — were contagious.
This is to start thinking in that really we must pay attention to this illness that is recognized generally by a very strong and marked cough that lasts more than 15 days, between other symptoms.
To acquire the illness is so simple as to breathe the same air of the person that this one is infected so passes when the person coughs, sneezes or speaks with one. With the smallest quantity of the germ of the tuberculosis that we inhale, we can go so far as to be contagious and the serious thing is that for every infected person who is not treated medically, 10 and 15 more persons are going to become infected between every year.
With worry we have thought often in Mary's Center that our community does not take enough measures to avoid a contagion of this type. Sadly the absence of medical insurance or the economic needs are often the persons in charge of this but sometimes also it is simply for negligence or lacking in information.
One of easiest ways of contagion generally is when we travel to our countries and bring it of there, so this is an illness that happens more in the countries of the third world like ours.
It is important to bear in mind that the best way to prepare the tuberculosis us is doing an annual checkup. This checkup is for the whole world and all the ages beginning from 6 months of life of a baby from now on.
It is a very simple test that consists of a small injection that they apply to us in the skin of the low part of the arm. If there is inflammation and reddening of the injected area, possibly there is infection. To discard or to verify this possibility, x-rays or blood examinations are done. Of the result goes out positively, it is necessary to begin a treatment immediately. As nothing it serves if a person does the test to herself and does not do pursuit to him.
This small test can prepare a long and dangerous illness that although here one does not see so much how in our countries, we are equal of inclined to acquire it. If you or his children have not done this test to themselves, ask his doctor for her.
Very quickly a new school year begins and the test of the ppd, as commonly they call him here, it is one of the requisites so that the children are admitted into the school. Also it is for their good and of the whole family.
| Scientists check what type of meals benefits the cardiac health |
| Does he know what food is good for the heart? |
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| The vegetables are good for the heart. Photos.com. |
For Carla K. Jonson
AP
Really do we know which is the good food for the heart?
A group of investigators came to the conclusion that it is small what is known to true science about the diet and the food that protect the heart.
The study realized by the group, supported by the Canadian Foundation of the Heart and the Canadian Institutes of Health, he analyzed almost 200 previous investigations that were involving million persons.
The vegetables, the nuts and the called “Mediterranean diet” are in the list of "good" food for the heart. In the "bad" list the carbohydrates are by means of starches, like the white bread and the fats called "trans" contained in many cookies and in the potatoes in the French.
Also a list exists with “question mark“ in which there are the meat, the eggs, the milk and many other food of that there is still no forceful evidence if they are good or bad for the heart.
“ I investigate. Also I buy food for my family every week”, said the coauthor of the study, Sonia Anand, of the University of McMaster in Hamilton, Ontario, who hopes that the results “should reduce the confusion concerning what we should eat and what we should not eat”.
The study published in the magazine File of Internal Medicine, it is not equal to a list of the supermarket. It is rather a complicated explanation on how the investigators qualified 189 previous studies on the same topic.
The group used criteria developed by Sir Austin Bradford Hill, the British scientific deceased who helped to establish the relation between the lung cancer and smoke. If several studies were relating a food or a diet to a better cardiac health, of that time this was placing to the food or diet in the positive part of the list.
Doctor JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine of the Hospitals Brigham and of the Woman in Harvard, said that the analysis underlines that there is a big gray area and a minor list of the food hard associated with the health of the heart.
Linda Van Horn, teacher of preventive medicine in the faculty Feinberg of Medicine in the University Northwestern, said that the analysis treats more of the fortitude and weaknesses of the previous studies that of an advice for the consumers.
But he added that the investigation reaffirms the benefits of the Mediterranean diet, which is rich in vegetables, nuts, grains, fish and olive oil, compared to the western diets rich in processed meats, red meat, refined grains and dairy products with greasy suppressed high places.
In addition to this They Go Horn did not find another reason to mold the list of buys of the supermarket in accordance with the discoveries.
“ It is a question in fact of the totality of the usual boss of feeding, more that if you ate a hot dog (hot dog) the day of the opening of the period of baseball”, he said.
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