Below are links to current, high-interest online media clips addressing a variety of aging-related issues. These clip selections - which are updated regularly - are identified by daily searches of thousands of electronic publications from around the world:
Time Magazine calls Home Instead Senior Care "an international franchising dynamo" From Time Magazine, Sept. 14, 2009
In 1994, while keeping his grandmother company at his mom's house in Omaha, Neb., Paul Hogan hatched a business. Barely mobile when her children moved the 89-year-old in, Grandma Hogan, newly pumped up by attention, would live to be a lively 100. What, Paul wondered, did families without available kin do? Providing that answer has propelled Home Instead Senior Care into an international franchising dynamo that reaped $661 million last year and projects a 2009 jump to $738 million on domestic growth of 10% and 26% growth internationally.
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Home and Apartment Safety Checklists; Fire Prevention Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: 4/30/08
Young children and the elderly are most at risk for injury and death in fires. Elderly people at home face threats from conditions younger family members may not see.
Link: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08121/877555-255.stm.
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