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...have taken the least traditional approach to the race, using an anarchist symbol and the slogan “Kill the UC.” “We are deadly serious,” Wong said. “About as serious as two slightly frail Asian boys can be.” “We’re having a lot of our stuff done by various semi-secret organizations,” quipped Wong, who described his campaign strategy as a “roll-out approach.” Hwang reported plans to buy matching...
...ethical quandary: If the U.S. faced a deadly flu pandemic with only a limited supply of vaccine, who should get treated? Federal guidelines--and conventional wisdom--give priority to health-care workers, the youngest, the frail and the elderly. But Minnesota is the first state to suggest otherwise. A panel including government officials, doctors and ethicists concluded that inoculations should be given first to key workers like police and nurses, then to those who would respond best to treatment--healthy 15-to-40-year-olds, not infants or seniors. "A worst-case scenario poses the hardest questions," says panelist Karen...
Ackroyd and her shoulder notwithstanding, current elder-cohousing residents tend to be healthy, active and independent, so no one is sure how the concept will work when increasing numbers of residents become frail and in need of assistance. Advocates say that when residents get sick, they will pay for and arrange their own care but that the communal-living arrangement may offer an advantage since infirm members could share the expense of hiring a health-care provider to tend to several of them. And, of course, members will continue to enjoy the support and physical presence of people who have...
That would be a shame, because one of the fastest-growing segments of the U.S. population is those 85 and up. Many are, like Kurzweil's mother, frail and in need of multiple medications and frequent doctor's care. Since it's hard to get around, they often delay seeking treatment until an illness is full blown and then call 911. That becomes time consuming and costly and can lead to a family crisis. "When elderly patients go to the emergency room, doctors are very uncomfortable about sending them home" right away, says Dr. Joseph W. Spooner of Care Level...
...Israeli decision to suspend air operations for 48 hours to allow civilians to leave the stricken towns and villages along the border has given the few remaining residents of this besieged town a brief window to escape the horrors of the battle that engulfed them. The old, frail and sick left their basement shelters, some crawling through the collapsed ruins of the bombed houses above them to pick their way carefully over a field of foot-thick debris that littered the streets. Barely a building remained standing. Some had been reduced to deep craters when struck by massive aerial bombs...