It's official. The Social Security Administration has announced that there will be no increase in 2010 SS checks. The annual Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) is based on inflation and last year the number was negative (deflation). Checks won't go down, but they won't go up either. It is still not clear what will happen if Medicare Part B costs go up. There is a rule that checks cannot go down, so some adjustment may have to be made. Keep your eyes and ears out for more news.
Knee replacement surgery can improve the quality of life even for very elderly patients, according to a study presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) . The study found that patients in their 80s can benefit both physically and socially from knee replacement surgery, also called total knee arthroplasty (TKA), once thought too risky for the very elderly. “As patients are living longer, there is an upward trend in the demand for quality of life among the elderly population,” said Edsel Arandia, M.D., lead author of the study and an orthopaedic surgeon at Philippine Orthopaedic Center and a Fellow at Singapore General Hospital. “As patients age, debilitating diseases like arthritis of the knee begin to develop. We conducted this study to determine the viability of TKA in octogenarians and to learn whether their quality of life improves after TKA.” Dr. Arandia and his team reviewed data from 128 patients older than 80 years of age wh...
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