Nursing Homes in Talladega, AL
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 Talladega Healthcare Center, Inc Medicare and Medicaid Location: 616 Chaffee Street, Talladega, Alabama 35160 Ratings: Phone: (256) 362-4197 |
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Finnish study: Size of aneurysm does not impact risk of brain aneurysms rupture
Approximately one third of all brain aneurysms rupture during a patient's lifetime, resulting in a brain haemorrhage. A recent Finnish study demonstrates that, unlike what was previously assumed, the size of the aneurysm does not significantly impact the risk of rupture.
Study addresses disability prevention for ethnic/racial minority and immigrant elders
A randomized controlled trial of a new disability prevention intervention, called Positive Minds-Strong Bodies, indicates that improving coping skills and physical strengthening can significantly improve functioning and mood in racial and ethnic minority and immigrant older adults.
Researchers reduce production of alpha-synuclein in the brain - offers hope for Parkinson's disease
Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a method to reduce the production of alpha-synuclein in the brain.
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Nursing Home
A nursing home (also called skilled nursing facility) is a facility or distinct part of an institution whose primary function is to provide medical, continuous nursing, and other health and social services to patients who are not in an acute phase of illness requiring services in a hospital, but who require primary restorative or skilled nursing services on an inpatient basis above the level of intermediate or custodial care in order to reach a degree of body functioning to permit self care in essential daily living.A skilled nursing facility (SNF) may be a freestanding facility or part of a hospital that has been certified by Medicare to admit patients requiring subacute care and rehabilitation.
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