Baby Care articles![]() 1. Health Insurance :: 7 Tips for Selecting Long-Term Care Insurance As the massive Baby Boomer generation braces for retirement, many are turning to long-term care insurance to prepare for potential age-related care. 2. Child Care :: Elderly, child care workers earn low wages, lack insurance As baby boomers age and women with young children return to the work force, families are increasingly turning to paid workers to care for children and elderly parents and grandparents. Yet those direct care and child care workers receive low wages, change jobs often, lack health insurance, and live in low-income families at a greater rate than all female workers, according to a new policy brief by the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. 3. Baby Care :: New screening test for all babies to be introduced All babies in England are to be screened for an inherited metabolic disease called Medium Chain Acyl CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency (MCADD), within two weeks of birth, announced Health Minister, Ivan Lewis today. 4. Baby Care :: New focus for children and maternity services The way maternity and children's services are delivered is going to have to change, if we want to provide the best possible care for mothers, babies and children, argued Dr Sheila Shribman, the UK's National Childrens' Tsar. 5. Dementia :: Physicians enlisted in efforts to keep demented drivers off the road The surge of baby boomers now entering their 60s means more drivers on the road who may be impaired by dementia or other cognitive impairments linked to aging. Researchers at the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC) of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and elsewhere have developed a three-hour workshop that trains health care providers to identify potentially unsafe drivers with dementia and to encourage appropriate retirement from driving. |