Travel Tips for Loved Ones with Dementia! | Black and Married With ...

All of us at some point in our adult, single or married lives have had to care for or will have to care for an ailing parent or loved one. That extra love and special attention not only extends to everyday life it also extends to any kind of travel. After a heart wrenching tragedy in DC last week we thought we would share a few important travel tips to help care for loved ones with Dementia.

Last week in Washington an 83 year old Grandmother traveling home from Barbados disappeared after she departed her American Airlines flight at Reagan National Airport. The Grandmother was traveling alone and suffered from dementia. Airport security cameras show her leaving the airport. Sadly after several days of searching authorities revealed, she was later found dead, at Gravelly Point park near the airport.

Her family stated they asked the airline for wheel chair assistance upon her arrival in DC. She reportedly never claimed the wheelchair and left the airport alone. From this tragic accident we?ve learned that most airlines do not have an escort policy/program in place for adults, traveling alone with cognitive impairments. Airlines only have escort policies/programs in place for minor children traveling alone. We have a few important travel tips for families caring for loved ones with dementia or other cognitive impairments.

Here are a few travel tips:

• The passenger should always travel with a caregiver.
• Escort the passenger everywhere (6 out of 10 patients with dementia tend to wander).
• Passengers should wear ID bracelets or medic alert bracelets.
• Register the passenger with the ?Alzheimer?s Association Safe Return Program? and Medic Alert.
• If your family member absolutely has to travel alone, please notify the airline staff at the boarding gate and corporate office of the passengers? situation.
• Family members should be waiting at the arrival gate as soon as the plane arrives and the passenger departs the plane (if traveling alone).

Let?s all be safe and sound when traveling and make sure that our loved ones arrive home safely.

By The Travelin Diva (Kirstin N. Fuller)

About the author

Kirstin N. Fuller aka The Travelin Diva is a DC based travel journalist bringing fellow travelers the best deals on family vacations, couples retreats, spa getaways, the best travel gadgets and more in BMWK?s exclusive Travel Tuesday & Weekend Travel Guide columns. Check out her new travel blog daily for more deals & destinations www.passenger156.com.

Source: http://blackandmarriedwithkids.com/2013/05/travel-tuesday-important-travel-tips-for-loved-ones-with-dementia/

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Retro-bit | Play Old-School Games Again - TechZuluTechZulu

In the mid 80s and early 90s, the tech world was all about video games.? Nintendo started a revival of the video game industry and every child and adult were equally having a great time playing games at the arcades and at home.? The Original NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis provided homes with endless fun and entertainment, but those consoles are long gone and only a handful of people still hold on to such old relics.? Innex, Inc. is planning to bring the old-school consoles back into gamer?s hands by selling the Super Retro Console and Adapter by Retro-bit.

Retro-bit is manufacturing two items for the nostalgic gamers; the Super Retro Console and the Super Retro Adapter.? The Super Retro Console allows you to play original Nintendo, Super Nintendo, and Sega Genesis games.? The console comes with three different cartridge slots, six controller ports (supports both first party and third party controllers), an AC adapter, an S-Video connection, and an AV cable.? The suggestive retail price is $69.99 for your gaming pleasure.? The console looks sleek and compact, and the ability to play three different types of games gives gamers less clutter to have around the house.

The Super Retro Adapter lets you play Gameboy Advance games on the Super Retro Console. Another great thing about the Super Adapter is, the Super Retro Console is not needed to use the Retro Adapter. ?The Adapter can play on the original Super Nintendo or any other third party 16-bit console.? It even has ports (cables sold separately) to connect up to three more Gameboy Advance systems to play four-man gaming.? The Adapter SRP is $39.99.? Buying both the Console and Adapter as a bundle, the SRP is $89.99.? With the affordable price points, Retro-bit is ready to give gamers a reason to look into the past.

Innex, Inc. is not only selling the Retro-bit gaming console, but they have been offering many other products such as video game?accessories?to ?geek? inspired toys to the public. ?With a ton of toys and gadgets for the public to buy, they have been offering unique products that can be hard to get elsewhere. ?Innex, Inc. may only be selling to a niche group of consumers, but they have found a group that will always be enjoying the products they offer.

Innex, Inc. is going to be showing the Retro-bit gaming consoles at the E3 Expo this year, with a plethora of other toys and gadgets they have in their inventory.? Retro-bit is bringing a blast from the past for casual and hardcore gamers alike.? With a sleek design and an affordable price point, there isn?t anything for gamers to not like from the package.? Instead of finding, fixing, or paying high prices for working old-school consoles, the Retro-bit gaming console has you covered.

Visit Innex, Inc. to get your geek on!

Alex Bae

Alex Bae is a graduate of UCSB who has a passion for writing. He writes various pieces to help people and businesses alike. He enjoys all forms of entertainment, science, and technology. He is always looking to improve in all possible aspects in life, especially with his writing.

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Source: http://techzulu.com/retro-bit-super-retro-console-play-old-school-games-again/

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A VC: You Can Do Too Much Due Diligence

It's Monday, time for another lesson I've learned in the venture capital business. Today I will tell a story that I love telling. It has some of my favorite people in it.

Back in 2004, early in my blogging career, I heard about a service that had just launched called Feedburner. It provided a number of useful services for a blog's RSS feed. So I went and signed up and AVC became one of the first users of the service. I immediately liked the service and the idea. So I contacted the founder/CEO Dick Costolo, who has gone onto bigger and better things. I told Dick that I was interested in making an investment in Feedburner. My friend Brad Feld was also talking to Dick about the same thing so we decided to do the investment together.

As part of our investment process, we do a bunch of fact gathering/checking work that is called Due Diligence in the vernacular of the VC business. So my partner Brad Burnham and I put together a list of leading blogs and online publishers who had popular RSS feeds at the time. I think there were a dozen or so publications on that list. It included Weblogs (Engadget), Gawker (Gawker), NY Times, and a bunch more. We know most everyone who ran those operations so we called them.

What we heard was surprising. Not one of them was willing to hand over their RSS feed to a third party for analytics and monetization. We were very surprised to hear that and thought a bit about it. But, we decided, we could not invest in something that the big publishers would not support. So regrettably, I called Dick and told him we had to pass and why. Brad Feld went ahead with the investment and Feedburner closed their round without USV.

About six months later I ran into Dick at an industry conference. We decided to grab lunch together and during lunch he said to me "you know those dozen publishers you called?" I said "yes, what about them?" He said "every single one of them is on Feedburner now."

I was pissed. How could that be? So I said to Dick, "Would you consider letting us into that last round we walked away from." He said "No, but I will let you invest at a 50% increase in price". We did that and became an investor in Feedburner. And that worked out well when Feedburner was sold to Google a few years later.

So what did I learn from this lesson? First, trust your gut. I was using Feedburner and knew it was a very useful service. I felt that others would see that too. They did, but it took some time. Second, I learned that a service can get traction with the little guys and in time, the big guys will come along. I have seen that happen quite a bit since then. And finally, I learned that you can do too much due diligence. It's important to talk to the market and hear what it is saying. But you have to balance that with other things; the quality of the team, the product, the user experience, etc. You cannot rely alone on due diligence, particularly early on in the development of a company and a market.

Source: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/05/you-can-do-too-much-due-diligence.html

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Routine screening for depression not recommended for adults with no apparent symptoms of depression

May 13, 2013 ? For adults with no apparent symptoms of depression, routine screening is not recommended in primary care settings because of the lack of high-quality evidence on the benefits and harms of screening for depression, according to new evidence-based guidelines from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC) published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

These guidelines mark a change in approach from the task force's 2005 guidelines, which recommended screening adults in primary care settings where there were integrated staff-assisted systems to manage treatment.

"In the absence of a demonstrated benefit of screening, and in consideration of the potential harms, we recommend not routinely screening for depression in primary care settings, either in adults at average risk or in those with characteristics that may increase their risk of depression," writes Dr. Michael Joffres, chair of the CTFPHC's depression guideline writing group and member of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, with coauthors.

The recommendations do not apply to people with known depression, with a history of depression or who are receiving treatment for depression.

However, clinicians should be alert to the possibility of depression, especially in patients with characteristics that may increase their risk of depression, and should look for it when there are clinical clues, such as insomnia, low mood, anhedonia (inability to experience pleasure) and suicidal thoughts.

Guidelines in other countries differ slightly from the Canadian guidelines. The US Preventive Services Task Force recommends universal screening where supports exist to ensure follow-up treatment. In the United Kingdom, the National Institutes for Health and Clinical Excellence recommends a targeted approach, focusing on people with a history of depression rather than general screening.

These recommendations do not apply to people with known depression, with a history of depression or who are receiving treatment for depression.

"These recommendations do not apply to people with known depression, with a history of depression or who are receiving treatment for depression. Patients who present with symptoms or other clues to the presence of depression should be appropriately assessed for depression," explained Dr. Gabriela Lewin, member of the CTFPHC working group.

The task force calls for high-quality randomized controlled trials with an unscreened control group to understand the effect of screening, the potential harms of screening, such as false-positive diagnoses with subsequent unnecessary treatment, as well as the implications of earlier detection of depression through screening.

In a related commentary, Dr. Roger Bland, Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, and coauthor write, "There is no question, as the task force amply illustrates, that depression constitutes a major public health problem. Although milder cases may require only watchful waiting rather than treatment, about 15% of people with major depression go on to a chronic course, with much residual disability. Family physicians have been criticized for failing to recognize depression. However, studies have shown that many missed cases are those of milder depression, which often remits spontaneously, and that patients with milder forms of depression may experience adverse effects and other complications if the depression is treated."

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/mind_brain/depression/~3/TI9bU8aq_y8/130513123335.htm

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Would You Trust One Company to Oversee All of Your Passwords?

Last Friday at Interop, Paypal's chief information security office, Michael Barrett, let it be known that passwords were dead.

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Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/3fflLhyfHyQ/would-you-trust-one-company-to-oversee-all-of-your-pass-500226598

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War spawns new approaches for wounded service members' pain care

May 11, 2013 ? Better body armor and rapid aeromedical evacuations enable American service members to survive blasts that would have proved fatal in Vietnam or even the first Gulf War, but they pose new challenges to military medicine -- how to deal with the excruciating pain of injuries, especially severe burns from IED blasts that body armor can't protect.

In fact, U.S. military doctors say the wars are inflicting injuries among the most painful known to medicine. Department of Defense scientists working at the U.S Army Institute of Surgical Research (USAISR) at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, spoke at the American Pain Society's annual scientific meeting and reported on progress in addressing pain management challenges for treating service members returning from the war front with severe burns.

"Soldiers with severe burns, such as those on 20 percent of their bodies or more, are often hospitalized for months and they endure agonizing pain every day -- not just from the first wound but also from repeated washings, dressing changes and multiple skin graft surgeries," said DOD Scientist Marcie Fowler, Ph.D. "Many also have polytraumatic injuries and have received several levels of treatment from the battlefield to the hospital, and brain trauma adds a cognitive impairment component to the rehabilitation of burns and polytraumatic injuries."

Opioids have been a mainstay for treating pain in badly burned warfighters, but extended use increases the risk for respiratory side effects and possible addiction. "There aren't many great alternatives to opioids but they do work and we have to deal with the side effects," said Fowler. "However, we are exploring several alternatives that might help reduce opioid use."

Dayna Loyd Averitt, Ph.D., a researcher at the USAISR, reported that the Army is conducting extensive research with novel therapeutic options for treating pain, such as using complementary drug therapy regimens, multidisciplinary pain

management strategies, and even virtual reality to help decrease pain during procedures. She reviewed current projects evaluating the potential benefits of the synthetic analgesic tramadol to treat pain with a reduced emphasis on opioids and in using an injectable agent, resiniferatoxin (RTX), to temporarily deactivate nerve endings. The RTX project is in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health.

"In our research with tramadol, we are evaluating the potential of using dual mechanism therapeutics that act on both opiate and neurotransmitter receptors," explained Averitt. "The drug's activity with neurotransmitters involved in pain modulation, such as serotonin and norepinephrine, could be helpful in treating pain while decreasing opioid use and lowering risk for addiction. The anti-depressive mode of action also can help treat burn patients who are dealing with PTSD and mood disorders.

Averitt said that preclinical studies with RTX show that treatment significantly reduced pain sensitivity from burns.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/most_popular/~3/y6Vuu7I4h6k/130511194835.htm

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Bloomberg Reporters Used Shady Terminal Access To Spy on ...

Trading on Wall Street is basically a huge game of poke,r and it would be kind of hard to bluff or cover your strategy if Bloomberg reporters were watching your Bloomberg terminal to track your every move. So you'd assume said reporters wouldn't abuse their corporate affiliation like that, because it would be shady and weird. That assumption would be wrong.

Goldman Sachs officials called Bloomberg LP out this week, according to the New York Post, when they realized that reporters from Bloomberg News had been monitoring activity on traders' terminal accounts. The terminals, which cost more than $20,000 a year, are a ubiquitous resource across banks and trading firms with about 315,000 subscribers. Reporters did not have extensive private access, but could see when a trader logged on to a terminal and checked things like bond trades or equities indices. Goldman basically took the position that they weren't trying to be paranoid, but it really wasn't okay for a Bloomberg reporter to ask if someone had been fired based on the fact that there was no recent activity on his/her terminal account.

Bloomberg issued a statement saying that the whole thing had been a mistake, and that reporters would no longer have access to the information, but it seems that the "mistake" has been going on for years, and that it was one form of leverage Bloomberg News used to gain traction during its early days. Outside of Wall Street, the Federal Reserve is investigating whether the tactic was used on its regulators. The New York Times explained:

Bloomberg reporters used the ?Z function? ? a command using the letter Z and a company?s name ? to view a list of subscribers at a firm. Then, a Bloomberg user could click on a subscriber?s name, which would take the user to a function called UUID. The UUID function then provided background on an individual subscriber, including contact information, when the subscriber had last logged on, chat information between subscribers and customer service representatives, and weekly statistics on how often they used a particular function. A company spokesman said both of those functions had been disabled in the newsroom.

At this point it pretty much seems like the behavior was legal, but it's certainly not ideal and is definitely corrosive in terms of faith that any part of Bloomberg can be trusted to keep private information separate from Bloomberg News. Competing wire service Thomson Reuters, which also has a financial data service meant to rival Bloomberg terminals, took the opportunity to note that its news division operates independently and is never given the opportunity to read other peoples' diaries. [New York Post, New York Times, PandoDaily ]

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Source: http://gizmodo.com/bloomberg-reporters-used-sketchy-terminal-access-to-col-503232014

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