News
Lawsuits are common in nursing homes
By Rob Winters - Published on Saturday, 02 April 2011 10:59
"High-quality nursing homes get sued almost as often as low-quality nursing homes, a new study shows.
Tragic death by shower cord
By Rob Winters - Published on Saturday, 02 April 2011 10:54
"EUGENIA BENGOWSKA survived World War II and communism in her native Poland and came to Australia seeking a safe haven to spend her final years.In December, however, she was discovered dead in the bathroom of her western Sydney nursing home, strangled by a shower cord.
Strenuous exercise can lead to dementia
By Rob Winters - Published on Tuesday, 29 March 2011 20:07
"If you want to stay mentally alert well into old age, you should exercise, exercise, exercise. At least, that’s what the popular press would have us believe. For women, however, that may be exactly the wrong advice: new evidence suggests that, on the contrary, strenuous exercise hastens cognitive decline and increases risk of dementia."
A Healing Spark for Alzheimer's Patients
By Rob Winters - Published on Tuesday, 29 March 2011 19:43
"Years of painstaking observation and careful study is what typically leads to scientific breakthroughs, but serendipity can also play an important role, as Dr. Andres Lozano recently discovered.
Canada – Population 100 Million
By Rob Winters - Published on Tuesday, 29 March 2011 19:28
"Canada should be a country of 100 million people. It has been said before. Apocryphally, by Winston Churchill himself; more recently, by the countless immigrants, newcomers and visitors to the country who are able, it must be observed, to see in Canada what incumbent Canadians oftentimes do not: that Canada could be a proper world power – a country of global consequence – if only…"
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