Bathroom Safety Tips For Home, In Assisted Living - Senior Living

By Michelle Seitzer / Posted on 16 October 2012

The bathroom can be a hazardous place. The majority of senior falls happen in this small space; per the CDC, about 30 percent of adults over 65 who suffered a fall in the bathroom were either hospitalized or diagnosed with fractures. Whether at home and in assisted living, the risk is the same; providers and family caregivers alike should make every effort to make the bathroom a fall-free zone.

Consider these simple safety tips from the CDC:

1. Reduce tripping hazards. Throw rugs and bath mats may give the room a cozy look, but they pose a fall risk, especially if they are not well-secured. A high-pile bath mat that slips around is more hazardous than helpful, especially for someone using a walker, cane or wheelchair, or someone with balance and gait problems.
2. Add grab bars. There are several places where grab bars would be best, according to the CDC: inside and outside the shower/tub, and next to the toilet. Make sure the grab bars are of sturdy construction and are installed securely; otherwise, their purpose is defeated.
3. Make sure there is adequate lighting. Considering that the individual may need to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, a small nightlight that is always on may be helpful. Also, make sure the light switch is easy to find and use. If there are no windows in the bathroom, good lighting is crucial. If there is a window, install curtains or blinds to filter the strong sunlight of morning and mid-day; a harsh glare on already slick surfaces (or the need to squint or shield one?s eyes) can pose a fall risk.

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Source: http://www.seniorsforliving.com/blog/2012/10/16/bathroom-safety-tips-for-home-in-assisted-living/

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Peace envoy seeks Iranian help for Syria ceasefire

BEIRUT (Reuters) - International peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi appealed to Iran to help arrange a ceasefire in Syria during the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha as rebels and government forces fought street by street and village by village on Monday.

Brahimi made the request in talks with Iranian leaders on Sunday in Tehran, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's closest regional ally in his campaign to crush a 19-month-old uprising.

The veteran Algerian diplomat said the civil war in Syria was getting worse by the day and stressed the urgent need to stop the bloodshed, his spokesman said on Monday.

He suggested the truce be held during the Eid holiday, which starts around October 25 and lasts several days. It would "help create an environment that would allow a political process to develop".

There was no immediate response from either side and with fighting raging on Monday in several Syrian cities and in the countryside, it was not clear if they would want to put the brakes on any battlefield advantages.

A ceasefire brokered by Brahimi's predecessor Kofi Annan in April fell apart after a few days and Annan later quit his job in frustration.

A senior United Nations political official, briefing the Security Council in New York, said that for any ceasefire to succeed, "this must be a collective effort by all inside Syria, in the region and beyond".

The official, Jeffrey Feltman, said all governments should stop supplying weapons and giving military assistance to any side in the conflict.

"Human rights abuses, including arbitrary detentions, torture and summary executions continue unabated. The voices of the peaceful protests that emerged so proudly last year have receded in the tremor of fighting," he said.

The conflict has claimed more than 30,000 lives since March 2011, when demonstrations first broke out calling for an end to the Assad family's dynastic rule.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 50 people had been killed across the country so far on Monday, nearly half of them soldiers. That followed a death toll of 170 on Sunday.

ALEPPO STREET-FIGHTING

The pro-opposition Observatory said two rebel-held districts in northeast Aleppo, al-Shaar and Karm al-Jabal, came under heavy bombardment from Assad's forces on Monday. It also reported clashes in the district of Jdeideh, just north of the ancient citadel in Syria's biggest city.

Syrian television showed footage of soldiers inside Aleppo's Great Mosque, which dates back to the 8th century and was badly damaged in fighting between government forces and rebels battling for control of the Old City.

The mosque's medieval arches were charred, its elaborate wooden panels smashed and metal filigree lanterns lay broken in the courtyard. The sound of nearby gunfire could be heard.

In northwestern Idlib province, government warplanes bombed several towns on Monday, the Observatory said.

Rebels had surrounded an army garrison on Sunday close to a northwestern town in the latest push to seize more territory near the border with Turkey, opposition activists said.

Several hundred soldiers were trapped in the siege of a base in Urum al-Sughra, on the main road between Aleppo, Syria's commercial and industrial hub, and Turkey.

"Rebels attacked an armored column sent from Aleppo to rescue the 46th Regiment at Urum al-Sughra and stopped it in its tracks," Firas Fuleifel, one of the activists, told Reuters by phone from Idlib province, the main base and supply route for the insurgents fighting in Aleppo.

He said a jet was shot down while trying to provide air support to the column.

On the border with Turkey's Hatay province, the rebels appeared to have a tentative hold after four days of heavy fighting in the town of Azmarin and surrounding villages.

Giving an overview of the military situation, analyst Shashank Joshi of the Royal United Services Institute in London said the rebels, boosted by weapons from Gulf States and gaining in fighting skills, were possibly doing better. Assad's forces were increasingly stretched and taking more casualties.

On the other hand, opposition forces have not coalesced and formed a reliable chain of command connecting local groups.

"So even if government forces are losing their grip, what is taking over is many opposition groups," Joshi told Reuters. "I am less confident of regime collapse within six months than I was in July."

The rebels have made ground in Aleppo but not as much as they would have liked and at much higher cost, he said.

It would be important if the rebels are able to maintain their block of the north-south highway between Damascus and Aleppo but the lack of cover on the roads make them vulnerable to air strikes, he said.

If they can hold the road, the government's helicopter fleet would be strained as it would be diverted from an attack role by the need to resupply stranded towns.

TURKEY GAME-CHANGER

The "game-changer" could be Turkey, once an ally of Assad and now a leader in international calls for him to quit, Joshi said.

Turkey's confrontation with Syria deepened in the past two weeks because of cross-border shelling and escalated on October 10 when Ankara forced down a Syrian airliner en route from Moscow, accusing it of carrying Russian munitions for Assad's military.

Ankara said in on Sunday it had closed Turkish air space to Syrian planes. Damascus also banned Turkish planes from flying over its territory.

Russia has said there were no weapons on the grounded plane and that it was carrying a non-legal cargo of radar. But it acted to cool friction with Ankara - Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the incident would not hurt "solid" relations.

After meeting mediator Brahimi, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Salehi said Iran was ready to work with him for peace and repeated Tehran's call for an immediate ceasefire before reforms and elections to resolve the conflict.

"We all need to join hands so that this conflict comes to a halt and further bloodshed is stopped," Salehi said.

Shi'ite Iran is the main ally in the region of Assad, who is a member of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam.

The uprising has been led by the Sunni Muslim majority and is backed by Sunni-ruled Arab states and by Turkey, also led by a party with its roots in Sunni Islamist politics.

Turkey's disaster management agency said on Monday the number of Syrian refugees housed in camps in southern Turkey has exceeded 100,000, reaching the limits of its ability to cope.

Two other Syrian neighbors, Lebanon and Jordan, are sheltering 94,000 and 106,000 refugees respectively, according to the United Nations refugee agency.

(Additional reporting by Jonathon Burch on the Turkey-Syria border, Khaled Yacoub Oweis in Amman, Yeganeh Torbati and Zahra Hosseinian in Dubai and Oliver Holmes in Beirut; Editing by Jon Hemming)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/peace-envoy-seeks-iranian-help-syria-ceasefire-024412898.html

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Biz Break: iPhone 5 drives economic boost, pushing stocks higher; Marissa Mayer building Yahoogle?

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Tamsyn Vohradsky, center, holds up her iPhone 5 after becoming one of the first buyers of Apple's new iPhone 5 from their flagship store in Sydney on Friday.

Today: Apple's (AAPL) influence on the economy showed up as September's retail sales increased more than expected thanks to iPhone 5 sales. Also: Wall Street reacts positively to economic news, Yahoo (YHOO) looks to Google (GOOG) for another executive.

Apple sales help boost retail numbers for month of September

Apple's outsize presence on Wall Street has been well-chronicled, as the movement of shares in the most valuable U.S. company can sway two of the three major indexes on Wall Street. Monday's federal retail sales report reminded onlookers that the Cupertino company's performance could have just as large an effect on the entire U.S. economy.

The Commerce Department reported Monday that retail sales grew by 1.1 percent in September, easily outpacing economists' prediction of growth of 0.7 percent to 0.9 percent. the push was driven by a 4.5 percent increase

in sales at electronics retailers, gains that economists attributed to the late-September release of Apple's newest smartphone.

"Although we don't get a breakdown of the data by specific electronic goods, the jump in sales is probably due to the September 21 release of the iPhone 5," BNP Paribas economist Jeremy Lawson wrote in a report.

Apple sold 5 million iPhone 5 units in the first three days of availability, a record weekend that many experts expected to be even better. The company has reportedly had issues producing enough smartphones to satisfy the huge demand.

A boost in retail sales after the launch of a new iPhone is nothing new, nor truly unexpected: The Wall Street Journal's Spencer Jakab predicted that retail sales would beat expectations thanks to a new iPhone, pointing out that retail sales were high after previous iterations of the popular smartphone hit the market.

In fact, experts expect an economic boost in the U.S. from Apple beyond just retail sales. The Federal Reserve reported that air cargo companies received a boost from flying the precious devices across the globe, and J.P. Morgan chief economist Michael Feroli predicted in September that the iPhone 5 would boost fourth-quarter growth in U.S. gross domestic product by an annualized quarter-to-half percentage point.

"Calculated using the so-called retail control method, sales of iPhone 5 could boost annualized GDP growth by $3.2 billion, or $12.8 billion at an annual rate," Feroli wrote.

Of course, the iPhone was not the only driver for increased consumer spending in September -- an analysis by Millan Mulraine of TD Securities showed that growth would have still been about 0.7 percent with it. Not all the other growth was positive, as Americans spent more on necessities like gas and food, worrisome signs of inflation.

However, most economists believed the end result provided strong momentum for the economy.

"The improvement in spending was more than an iPhone 5 sugar high," Mulraine told the Journal. "Overall, this was a very strong report and the buoyancy in household spending is consistent with the improving tone seen in consumer confidence in recent months."

Apple stock, struggling since the opening weekend of iPhone sales failed to match analysts' forecasts, increased 0.8 percent to $634.76.

Stocks gain on retail news, Dow has best day in a month

The good economic news pushed stocks to a positive day, as the Dow Jones had its biggest increase in a month thanks to growth from retailers and banks.

While retailers' stocks benefited nearly across the board -- for instance, Pleasanton-based Ross increased 0.9 percent and San Francisco's The Gap grew 0.5 percent -- banks received a bigger boost from strong earnings from Citigroup. Citigroup increased 5.5 percent, Goldman Sachs grew 3.6 percent and Bank of America moved up 3.5 percent.

In Silicon Valley, Intel (INTC) increased 1.2 percent one day ahead of its earnings report, which arrives as doom and gloom settles over the personal computer industry. PC companies also managed gains, with Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) advancing 0.4 percent and Microsoft increasing 1.1 percent as it announced a new streaming music service. Microsoft's announcement was not a boon for Oakland's Pandora online radio service, which dropped 3.1 percent Monday.

Workday, the Pleasanton cloud software company that debuted on Wall Street with an incredible pop Friday, kept moving higher Monday, closing with a 6.7 percent gain at $51.94 after selling IPO stock at $28. Other stocks that recently went public moved h higher as well, with Splunk gaining 2.9 percent and Palo Alto Networks increasing 4.1 percent.

Overall, all three major U.S. indexes gained between 0.6 percent and 0.8 percent Monday, while the SV150 index of Silicon Valley largest tech companies grew by 0.6 percent.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer looks to former employer for COO

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's vision for Yahoo apparently includes enough Googlers to change the name to Yahoogle: The former Google executive poached a new chief operating officer from her former company Monday, hiring the man who helped Google overtake Yahoo in display advertising.

Senior Google advertising executive Henrique de Castro received a large pay package to join Mayer at Yahoo -- he will be eligible for stock and options valued at $56 million, in addition to a $600,000 annual salary, a potential bonus of $540,000 and a $1 million cash bonus, according to a regulatory filing. De Castro, 47, has been at Google since 2006 and Mayer described him as "an incredibly accomplished and rigorous business leader" in Monday's new release.

Another former Google exec -- Michael Barrett -- signed on to come to Yahoo in the revenue field under interim CEO Ross Levinsohn, whom Mayer replaced. The two would work closely together, though AllThingsD reporter Kara Swisher said Monday that they did not get along well while in Mountain View.

Monday was Mayer's first day back in the office since giving birth to her first child about two weeks ago, and she made a big splash after the bell with the announced hire. While Yahoo fell 1.3 percent to $15.68 in regular trading, it bounced back by 0.5 percent in after-hours trading.

Silicon Valley tech stocks

Up: Workday, Palo Alto Networks, Splunk, Juniper, Electronic Arts (ERTS), Nvidia, Adobe (ADBE), Intel, Oracle (ORCL), NetApp, Apple, Cisco (CSCO), VMware

Down: Jive, Yahoo, Tesla, eBay (EBAY), Gilead, Google, Zynga

The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: Up 20.07, or 0.66 percent, to 3,064.18

The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: Up 95.38, or 0.72 percent, to 13,424.23

And the widely watched Standard & Poor's 500 index: Up 11.54, or 0.81 percent, to 1,440.13

Check in weekday afternoons for the 60-Second Business Break, a summary of news from Mercury News staff writers, The Associated Press, Bloomberg News and other wire services. Contact Jeremy C. Owens at 408-920-5876; follow him at Twitter.com/mercbizbreak.

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Assistant/Associate Professor od Education, Science and ...

Institution:	Penn State Harrisburg
Location:	Middletown, PA
Category:	Faculty - Education - Teacher Education Faculty - Science - Mathematics
Posted:	10/15/2012
Application Due:	Open Until Filled
Type:	Full Time

Penn State Harrisburg, School of Behavioral Sciences and Education, invites applications for a tenure-track faculty appointment as Assistant/Associate Professor of Education to begin August 2013. An earned doctorate in mathematics or science education or curriculum and instruction with a mathematics or science focus is required. Full-time PK-12 teaching experience is required. The successful candidate will embrace innovative approaches to and the use of technologies in mathematics or science education, and must demonstrate excellence in research. Responsibilities include teaching undergraduate courses in the teacher certification program, teaching graduate courses in the M.Ed. in Teaching and Curriculum, and some supervising of field experiences. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to assume a key role in the Capital Area Institute for Mathematics and Science (CAlMS), which supports research and professional development of K-12 teachers, and to collaborate with faculty in the School of Science Engineering, and Technology and in the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
We offer NCATE-accredited Teacher Education programs in elementary education, with early childhood and middle level options, and the M.Ed. in Teaching and Curriculum and in Literacy Education, and we support secondary education in English, mathematics, and social studies. To learn more about the College and the School, visit www.hbg.psu.edu and www.hbg.psu.edu/bsed.
Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Submit letter of application, curriculum vitae, copies of graduate transcripts, statement of teaching and research interests, reprints or preprints, and three written letters of reference to: Chair, Science and Math Education Search Committee, c/o Dorothy J. Guy, Director of Human Resources, Penn State Harrisburg, Box HEJ-37911, 777 W. Harrisburg Pike, Middletown, PA 17057-4898 or email to HBG-HR@LISTS.PSU.EDU. Employment will require successful completion of background check(s) in accordance with University policies.

Application Information

Postal Address:	Mrs. Dorothy J. Guy, Director of Human Resources Office of Human Resources Penn State Harrisburg 777 W. Harrisburg Pike W106 Olmsted Bldg. Middletown, PA 17057
Fax:	717-948-6518
Email Address:	HBG-HR@LISTS.PSU.EDU

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Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity, and the diversity of its workforce.

Source: http://www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?JobCode=175681054

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