"It is so crucial to reach out to our American non-English speaking
seniors who need additional help enrolling in Medicare Part D," said Julia
Ostropolsky, Executive Director of the Bi-Lingual International Assistant
Services. New Jefferson State Grant Focused on Early Detection, Prevention of
Alzheimer's and Caregiver Relief

PHILADELPHIA, How can a family tell if a loved
one is in the beginning stages of Alzheimer's disease? Are there changes
individuals can make in their lifestyle to reduce or perhaps delay the effects
of the disease? What can caregivers do to lessen their burden?
These are some of the questions Jefferson investigators hope to answer .
Individuals will be referred for participation in the study to receive either
the innovative treatment or educational materials.
Home Instead Senior Care is an Omaha-based company that began in 1994 to
help meet the needs of the elderly and their caregivers.

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9320. is principal investigator of a four-year, $3. "Available medications are inadequate , making it imperative that
caregivers be trained in how best to create an environment conducive to the
care of someone with Alzheimer's.

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The
network does not engage in legislative activities or take positions on pending
legislative or administrative policies related to the Part D benefit and its
implementation.
"The unique aspect of this project is the focus on developing a convenient
diagnostic test that many caregivers and case workers can administer, and on
training caregivers in non-drug related strategies that can help keep patients
at home longer prior to nursing home placement ," says Dr. He and his group
are developing a new screening tool combining cognitive tests assessing
patient memory, orientation, language, and other abilities with a
questionnaire given to family members. in 2001. "While providing assistance for an aging family member can
be rewarding, this meaningful experience may be coupled with exhaustion,
elevated levels of stress, inadequate resources and failure to take care of
oneself," explains Paul Hogan, president and founder of Home Instead Senior
Care, the world's largest provider of non-medical home care services for aging
adults.

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More help is needed.
"The disease goes on for five to 15 years of intense stress for the
family, especially the primary caregiver," says Dr. They are looking for markers of disease risk and stress in both
patient and caregiver at two different points in the program.

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The researchers would also like to identify lifestyle factors in the
development of Alzheimer's, and how modifying them - changing dietary
cholesterol , for example - might affect the course of the disease, in addition
to measuring objective biological markers of stress and of disease risk, such
as the buildup of sticky amyloid in the brain. Building on her previous work in this area, she plans to test
whether such a program can help reduce troublesome behaviors in Alzheimer's
patients by teaching families problem-solving skills, how to engage the
patient in meaningful activities and minimize triggers of behaviors and at the
same time manage their own stress. They
will be working closely with the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging (PCA) .
"Full of important family caregiver information, ranging from coping with
stress and providing care for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease or other
dementia to dealing with the challenges of spousal caregiving, family
caregivers will find this site as a helpful resource," says Richard Schulz ,
Ph.

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People may visit Medicare's website at http://www., PH., According to the U.

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Bi-Lingual International Assistant Services also offers site visits by
clinical professionals and bilingual psychiatrists to homebound individuals
who are foreign-born.D.
Gandy says.
Farber Institute for Neurosciences at Thomas Jefferson University is a
multidisciplinary neurosciences research center established through a $10
million gift by the Farber Family Foundation, Inc.com/ud_public .

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The health
research grant is awarded from Pennsylvania 's share of the national tobacco
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On Friday February 10, 2006, Bilingual International Assistant Services
and International Institute of St. In addition, Bi-Lingual International Assistant Services has been
offering one-on-one counseling and language-specific over-the phone
information , while the International Institute plans to reserve space for
assistance and enrollment.D. "We need people to be diagnosed
early to have the best chances of responding.
Dr.

With the growing number of seniors in America, many more family
members will find themselves in the role of caring for an aging
relative/parent.

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They may not know what steps they must take to select a plan that
best covers their prescription needs -- or even how to enroll in the program
and obtain identification cards., and Laura
Gitlin, PH."
Alzheimer's disease is a major public health cost for the nation and
particularly for Pennsylvania, which has a large elderly population. The costs will rise
to an estimated $40 million a year by 2050.
"An innovative feature of this randomized controlled trial is that the
intervention will be tested in a real community setting so that if it is
effective , it can easily be translated into the aging network," she says. Created by Leading Eldercare and Stress Experts,
the New Online Caregiver Stress Assessment Tool at Caregiverstress.S.com /ud_public.

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Louis-based Bi-Lingual International Assistant Services, is helping to
break down language barriers that affect older adults' access to prescribed
medications.D. Gandy says., director of geriatric medicine in
the Department of Family Medicine at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas
Jefferson University, who is working with Dr. Gitlin, director of the Center for Applied Research on Aging and
Health, and professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy at the
Jefferson College of Health Professions at Thomas Jefferson University, will
direct the randomized trial of the home-based skills training program for
caregivers. Gitlin and her colleagues are developing a "risk screen" that PCA care
managers will use to identify family caregivers who are at risk for placing
their family member in a nursing home and who might benefit from the research.
"This project represents our growing understanding of the disease and
mobilizing the health-care and academic systems to tackle the problem," Dr.

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Masters'-level
social workers and counselors speak English, Bosnian, Russian, and Spanish.
Alzheimer's and related disorders cost an average of $80,000 a year per
patient, and $25 million per year overall in Pennsylvania.

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The staff can provide help in Spanish, Bosnian, Russian, Kurdish, Arabic ,
Italian, Hungarian, Portuguese and French; other language assistance is
available. Sam
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By answering 20 multiple-choice questions (in under five minutes),
caregivers will be able to gauge their level of stress and be provided with
resources to tap into, as well as helpful tips and articles.

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These organizations are helping to ease the difficulties faced by the foreign-
born elderly who do not speak English well enough to choose options that best
meet their health and financial needs.
The deadline for all eligible recipients of Medicare Part D is May 15,
2006., will work in collaboration with the Philadelphia Corporation
for Aging , in order to conduct several research projects, each focusing on a
different aspect of the Alzheimer 's disease equation. The researchers plan,
for example, to test innovative screening methods to better identify dementia
in a racially and economically diverse population. Rovner to both develop and
validate the screening tool. Census Bureau,
by 2030 the senior population (65+) will outnumber that of school -age
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toll free at 1-800-MEDICARE for more information or to enroll in a plan.
For more information about assistance to limited English speaking needing
help with Medicare Part D, call Bilingual International Assistant Services at
314. They also are going to
examine the effectiveness of an in-home skills training program for caregivers
to see if it can help delay patients from going to nursing homes , and at the
same time, help reduce the stress on the caregiver. "Making a diagnosis as soon as possible
is important now because there are clinical trials for drugs aimed at the
early stages of disease ," Dr.
On the biological side, the researchers are developing a database of
ethnically diverse individuals, with special emphasis on the African-American
population. It is initially
focusing its efforts on basic and clinical research in a number of key areas,
including Alzheimer's disease , Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis (ALS) and other neurodegenerative disorders.

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ST. Louis , the Mid-East Area
Agency on Aging, and the Departments of Health for St. "Events such as this are a valuable service to our Nation's seniors
to help them enroll before the May 15, 2006 deadline.

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Developed by the
Home Instead Senior Care Advisory Board - - a group of leading eldercare and
caregiver stress experts -- the free, online stress assessment tool can help
determine what support a caregiver may need for themselves., leading caregiving stress researcher at the University of Pittsburgh
who participated in the creation of the new assessment tool. They have more than
500 offices in United States and Canada that employ more than 27,000
professionally -trained CAREGivers, with expansion growing internationally into
Japan, Ireland, Australia and Portugal .

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The multilingual staff of Bi-Lingual International Assistant Services has
been educating the foreign-born elderly and people with disabilities about how
to access prescription drug benefits in the most efficient and beneficial way. Gandy, director of the
Farber Institute for Neurosciences and professor of neurology and biochemistry
and molecular pharmacology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson
University.
Barry Rovner, M., director of Clinical Alzheimer's Disease Research at
the Farber Institute for Neurosciences at Thomas Jefferson University and
professor of psychiatry and neurology at Jefferson Medical College, will
direct the development and testing of the diagnostic tool.caregiverstress.prnewswire.

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Older adults who are unable to speak English encounter additional
challenges. Louis City and County. Louis hosted an enrollment site for seniors
speaking little to no English and in need of additional assistance in signing
up in a Medicare Part D plan .

About the Medicare Rx Access Network of Missouri
Members share an interest in educating Medicare beneficiaries about the
new Medicare prescription drug benefit and will work closely with the
appropriate federal agencies to obtain up-to-date information to ensure that
information disseminated by the network about Medicare Part D is factual and
accurately conveyed, thereby pre-empting confusion about the benefit and
equipping beneficiaries and their caregivers to make informed choices.D. Gandy ."
"Our sense is that Alzheimer's may be under-recognized in some
communities," says Christine Arenson, M.
For more information about Home Instead Senior Care or to find a local
office in your area, visit http://www.

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Health issues in the natural process of aging, care givers help sites, support groups, professional organizations, housing, safety and well -being.

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The Task Force is advertising its services to
elderly members of the community who find the language barrier overwhelming
when dealing with the new system of care under Medicare Part D. Task Force members are calling for volunteers to
assist non-English-speaking elderly in enrolling under the new Medicare Part D
guidelines.5-million
grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Health to support a Center of
Excellence on Neurodegenerative Diseases at the Farber Institute for
Neurosciences at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.D.com .
For more information, to test your level of caregiver stress or to find
out the latest on family caregiving issues, log onto
http://www.
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In response, the Medicare Part D Task Force came into being. Over thirty people were expected to come by a
previously scheduled appointment; others may sign up for future dates with the
Task Force.

About Bi-Lingual International Assistant Services
Bi-Lingual International Assistant Services is a not-for-profit
organization that provides quality counseling, case management, social
services and referrals -in a linguistically accessible and culturally sensitive
way-to foreign-born elderly and individuals with disabilities. To help family caregivers deal with the onset of stress as a result of
caregiving , the eldercare experts at Home Instead Senior Care have created a
new, interactive online Caregiver Stress Assessment Tool, available at the
newly launched web site http://www.

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Louis Area Agency on Aging and SBC, the Medicare Part D
Task Force includes Bi-Lingual International Assistant Services , International
Institute of St.
The new Jefferson center, co-directed by Barry Rovner, M.jsp?userid=516631
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