The Geriatrician Blog

The Geriatrician

While there are many web sites to serve as resources on the Internet, <>hope this blog takes on the flavor having geriatrician in your own family. The goal is to make a medically accurate and understandable analysis of geriatric issues (such as treatments) available to anyone who has an interest in issues of aging and geriatrics.

SS Complete List of Compassionate Allowances Conditions

Compassionate Allowances Initial List of Conditions

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Acute Leukemia
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Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
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Alexander Disease (ALX) - Neonatal and Infantile
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Alstrom Syndrome
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Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
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Anaplastic Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
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Astrocytoma - Grade III and IV
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Ataxia Telangiectasia
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Batten Disease
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Bilateral Retinoblastoma
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Bladder Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
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Bone Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
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Breast Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
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Canavan Disease (CD)
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Cerebro Oculo Facio Skeletal (COFS) Syndrome
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Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) - Blast Phase
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) - Adult
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Cri du Chat Syndrome
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Degos Disease, Systemic
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Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
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Edwards Syndrome (Trisomy 18)
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Ependymoblastoma (Child Brain Tumor)
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Esophageal Cancer
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Farber's Disease (FD) - Infantile
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Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
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Friedreichs Ataxia (FRDA)
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Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Picks Disease -Type A - Adult
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Fukuyama Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
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Gallbladder Cancer
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Gaucher Disease (GD) - Type 2
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Glioblastoma Multiforme (Adult Brain Tumor)
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Glutaric Acidemia Type II (Neonatal)
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Head and Neck Cancers - with distant metastasis or inoperable or uresectable
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Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), Familial Type
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Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
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Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD)
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Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses
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Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC)
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Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa, Lethal Type
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Kidney Cancer - inoperable or unresectable
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Krabbe Disease (KD) - Infantile
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Large Intestine Cancer - with distant metastasis or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
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Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses
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Leigh’s Disease
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Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (LNS)
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Liver Cancer
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Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL)
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Maple Syrup Urine Disease
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Merosin Deficient Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
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Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) - Late Infantile
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Mixed Dementias
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MPS I, formally known as Hurler Syndrome
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MPS II, formally known as Hunter Syndrome
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MPS III, formally known as Sanfilippo Syndrome
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Mucosal Malignant Melanoma
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Neonatal Adrenoleukodystrophy
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Niemann-Pick Disease (NPD) - Type A
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Niemann-Pick Disease-Type C
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Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer - with metastases to or beyond the hilar nodes or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
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Ornithine Transcarbamylase (OTC) Deficiency
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Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) - Type II
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Ovarian Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
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Pancreatic Cancer
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Patau Syndrome (Trisomy 13)
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Peritoneal Mesothelioma
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Pleural Mesothelioma
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Pompe Disease - Infantile
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Primary Progressive Aphasia
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Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
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Rett (RTT) Syndrome
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Salivary Tumors
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Sandhoff Disease
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Small Cell Cancer (of the Large Intestine, Ovary, Prostate, or Uterus)
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Small Cell Lung Cancer
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Small Intestine Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) - Types 0 And 1
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Spinocerebellar Ataxia
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Stomach Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
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Subacute Sclerosis Panencephalitis
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Tay Sachs Disease - Infantile Type
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Thanatophoric Dysplasia, Type 1
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Thyroid Cancer
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Ullrich Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
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Ureter Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
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Walker Warburg Syndrome
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Wolman Disease
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Zellweger Syndrome

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Social Security checks retire
By Jennie L. Phipps · Bankrate.com
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Posted: 4 pm ET

Beginning May 1, Social Security will require all new recipients to get their payments by either direct deposit to a bank account or via a debit card. Recipients who are already receiving Social Security have until May 1, 2013, to convert to one of these electronic delivery systems.

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You Must Know about Medical Power of Attorney

What Caregivers Need to Know about Medical Power of Attorney

How does your loved one make sure their wishes are followed, if they're unable to tell people about them?

It's a question our clients ask a lot. Every last person on earth wants to preserve their independence. In large part, that's what we help them do.

There's a tool they can use to make sure their wishes are followed even when they can't express them. It's called Medical Power of Attorney.

Purpose:

Names the person your loved one wishes to grant the power to make any and all healthcare decisions on their behalf.

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5 Signs that You Don't Have Alzheimer's Disease

"In order to let out a collective sigh of relief, below we'll walk through 5 perfectly normal parts of the aging process. Then, we'll walk through the signals that may indicate that there is Alzheimer's Disease present.
5 Signs that You Don't Have Alzheimer's Disease (And what to look for next)"

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Did you know?

Over 100,000 times per year, persons with dementia (such as Alzheimer’s disease) become lost in their own community and are unable to find their own way home. Persons with dementia often become lost, because they leave home without their caregiver. However persons with dementia living in nursing homes also become lost in the community. The situations that often lead to a person becoming lost in the community occur in all care giving environments. Here are just a few of the most common reasons:

* Caregiver are distracted or are sleeping.
* The person is left alone in the home
* The person is on an outing with the caregiver and wanders away
* The person is on a regular outing in the commuity and becomes confused

Recognizing a person with dementia

When persons with dementia are lost, they rarely ask for help to find their way home. Often a Good Samaritan is the only person between the persons with dementia being found safely or not.

Warning Signs

* Inappropriate clothing such as not enough / too much clothing for the weather.
Being outside with pajamas or night clothing, on.
* Clothing that is very dirty or disheveled.
* Acting confused about the environment. For instance, unable to correctly cross a street, or wandering in or on the side of a street / highway.
* Acting confused in a store such as loitering too long or eating merchandise without paying for it.
* Going into a neighbor's backyard or trying to get into someone's house.
* Sitting on the sidewalk.
* Rummaging through garbage.

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Genetic & Metabolic (73)
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inding and participating in a support groups is a very important part of stroke recovery. The links provided on this page are provided as merely a starting point in begining a search for a suitable group.

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