Nesconset Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation, a 240 bed skilled nursing facility located in Nesconset, New York now sponsors a FREE weekly speakers program every Thursday. Addressing issues of aging, wellness, financial planning, estate management, diabetes and other medically related topics coffee and light refreshments will be served. Please call 631 361-8800 and ask for Regina in Admissions to save a spot at our next Program: Stroke Awareness and prevention
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Nesconset Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation starts a Speakers Program
Friday, September 9th, 2011Nesconset Day Fair
Friday, September 9th, 2011This Sunday, Nesconset Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation will sponsor the Annual Nesconset Day Street Fair on Smithtown Boulevard in Suffolk County, New York. Nesconset Center for Nursing & Rehab is a 240 bed skilled nursing facility that offers in-patient sub acute services, long term care services as well as Community based services such as respite and medical model Adult Day Health Care Programs. We hope to see you at the Fair!
You Want Me to Drink What?
Saturday, May 1st, 2010I am admittedly not the trendiest girl around. I don’t have designer shoes or a luxury car or get my hair blown out. Actually, where I live getting your hair blown out means you drove with a window open, but I don’t do that much either. The NYC crowd would have a field day with how un-cool I am with my suburban clothes and addiction to Dunkin’ Donuts iced coffee. I am about as mainstream as they come, and for this I am generally unapologetic. It’s who I am and I’m OK with that.
Although un-hip, I am quite interested in doing things to keep myself and my family healthy. I try mightily to get my children to willingly eat vegetables. I don’t cook red meat. I choose fresh ingredients rather than food-in-a-box whenever possible. I am embarking on an experiment to be a vegetarian, and I recently gave up caffeine for a month. I am willing to try new things – within reason.
There was a recent article in the New York Times about the popularity of a fermented tea drink called kombucha. Apparently this tea can do all kinds of magical things like re-growing hair, calming digestive issues and curing hangovers. Those who drink it claim that it is quite delish. Sounds good, right? I’m in! I could be the first one in the suburbs to partake of this delightful elixir! How do I get it?
This is where things get a little hairy for me. Because kombucha is made by immersing a disk of bacteria into brewed tea and letting it sit, unrefrigerated, for up to two weeks.
A disk of bacteria.
In your tea.
On purpose.
I am so not down with that.
I understand the benefits of probiotics. I eat yogurt (from the refrigerator, thank you very much). But, I have to admit that I wouldn’t even drink the plain tea if it sat out for two weeks – and the introduction of the bacteria disk into the equation does nothing to improve the situation for me.
I suppose the nature of kombucha is essentially similar to beer. Fermented substances in a drink are not that uncommon. And yet, I can’t quite get my head around voluntarily introducing bacteria into a completely acceptable drink like tea. I guess I don’t brew my own beer either, although I do enjoy drinking it.
There are packaged versions of kombucha available, including one made by Red Bull. I am slightly more comfortable with the manufactured versions, mostly because I work under the assumption that beverage manufacturers are as terrified of being sued as I am of dying of kombucha poisoning.
I am a big sucker for slick marketing and putting anything, even something utterly disgusting, in a pretty bottle and giving it a fun name goes a long way to drawing my interest. If I actually went out and purchased a Carpe Diem Kombucha, it would be an ultimate marking success for them.
Ooooo…pretty bottle….fancy name…who cares what’s in it? I must have it!
I want to be cool and brave enough to jump on this bandwagon and give kombucha a try. But the reality is that it’s probably beyond my capabilities to be that cool and brave. And the Dunkin’ Donuts coffee is working just fine for me, thanks!
What’s a Bona Fide Boomer Got to do to… Survive?
Thursday, March 11th, 2010According to Jarett Berry, a cardiologist at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, one must be vigilant about keeping physically active. Yes, in what they used to call “Middle Age.” Wasn’t that the time we thought would be a little slower, a tad less “vigorous,” an entitlement to ease up a bit? Not if you want to hit 85 says the good Dr. “If you are fit in mid-life, you double your chance of surviving to 85.”
Dr. Berry’s findings, presented last week in San Francisco at the American Heart Association’s Annual Epidemiology and Prevention Conference, are based on an analysis of 1,765 men and women who had physical examinations performed during the 1970′s and 1980′s at the Cooper Institute, the Dallas-based birthplace of the aerobics movement. Put another way: If you’re not fit in your 50′s, your projected life span “is eight years shorter than if you are fit,” Dr. Berry says.
So regular exercise is the most cogent weapon we have to ward off illness and fight disease- as it results in lower blood pressure, healthier cholesterol, and lower blood sugar.
Rest assured… there is a silver lining to all this before you start jogging, digging ditches, or playing singles tennis: Studies also indicate that exercise’s greatest impact occurs when individuals move from a sedentary lifestyle to embarking on regular moderate exercise regimens.
That’s encouraging. You go, Girl!
Orthopedic Surgeons & Their Patients Clamor for the Establishment of a National Joint Registry
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008By Ruth Folger Weiss
A few months after undergoing routine hip replacements, a number of patients of a well known LA orthopedic surgeon started suffering from excruciating pains. The surgeon, Dr. Lawrence Dorr, was stymied until he discovered one factor they all had in common; the same replacement joint, manufactured by Zimmer Holdings, was implanted in all of them. Several needed to have their replacement replaced in another bout of surgery. When Zimmer was first contacted about this problem, they just brushed it off. It took a year of more complaints and pressure from doctors until they pulled this device off the market. In the interim many more patients unknowingly had their joints replaced with a faulty Zimmer “Durom Cup” with crippling results.
This upsetting scenario could have been avoided, and many patients could have been spared the agony, if the U.S. would have a Joint Registry in place. A Joint Registry is a national database that tracks the well being of patients with artificial hips and knees. Countries such as Australia, Britain, Norway and Sweden have such a system in place and the benefits are numerous. Tracking the success rates of the different joints available results in the faulty ones being pulled from the market much quicker. The registry data puts pressure on manufacturers to explain why their products perform poorly and the registry alerts surgeon to stop using flawed joints.
Monitoring devices like artificial joints supposedly falls under the domain of the The Food and Drug Administration but they are often overwhelmed by the vast number of products it monitors and because doctors often do not report problems.
Nearly one million hips and knees were replaced in the U.S. alone last year, about half of the world’s total. As the world’s leader in joint replacement, the U.S. should take the initiative and be the leader in follow-up too. So far all efforts to establish a database here have failed due to the many hurdles, financial and practical, of our fragmented and decentralized health care system, as well as a lack of support from Medicare.