Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Creative employers can develop strategies to maximize the productivity of their aging workforce, and tap into the cognitive advantages, wisdom, and know-how of older workers.
What aging persons bring to the world
Potential Disadvantages Compared to Youth
?Slower at learning new facts
?Slower retrieval of names and words
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Melody Petersen
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 A sign of this emerged in Iowa in 2004, when the state's largest insurer noticed a surge in the number of narcotic prescriptions filled by its members, who are mostly middle-class families covered by employers' medical plans. The number of narcotic prescriptions had risen 130 percent in just five years. Some Iowans took these painkillers as directed by their doctors, to discover only too late that they were hooked.
In 1999, Chelly Griffith was a housewife and mother of two, living in the city of Davenport, when she injured her back as she picked up her infant daughter. |
| In Iowa many workers had watched their annual pay raises shrink or vanish altogether as employers cut their wage and salary budgets to pay for spiraling health insurance premiums. Even as they trimmed the size of annual raises, most companies also required their workers to pay a greater share of the health care bill in the form of higher monthly premiums and copays. Real incomes for many in the middle class were starting to decline.
The consequences of the escalating medical costs did not end there. |
Dan Buettner
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 Kellogg was also convinced by his younger brother Will to market his new breakfast foods in what became the wildly successful Kellogg Company, still one of the largest employers in Battle Creek. He died in 1943 at the age of 91.
Ellen G. White, meanwhile, decided to close the Adven-tist-sponsored medical school in Battle Creek and open another one, to be named the Loma Linda College of Medical Evangelists. CME eventually changed its name to Loma Linda University.
A LITTLE EXERCISE TO STAY YOUNG Marge Jetton always wanted to be a nurse. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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| There are strategies employers can use to do so. As the first boomers begin to head into their sixties, some companies are making sure they hang onto their workers by offering flex time, extra benefits, and paid family leave so that employees can handle their personal issues, including taking care of aging parents of their own.
Other companies have been creative in allowing seasonal employment, so that workers may spend the winter months in a warmer part of the country and work from long distance. Admittedly, the working world can be quite harsh to aging people. |
Melody Petersen
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| Even a few drivers of the eighteen-wheeled semitrucks speeding across Iowa on Interstate 80 fretted that their employers would find out they used prescription stimulants like Ritalin, Adderall, or Provigil to stay awake on their cross-country hauls. The truck drivers talked openly about their worries on an Internet blog that let them keep their identities hidden.
"Hey dude. I'm in the same boat," wrote a driver who identified himself only as birddog4334. "I take Ritalin and I've got to get my first medical this week . . . |
| Labor unions were losing their negotiating power as companies threatened to move jobs overseas where foreign governments—not employers?paid for medical care. No one driving along Second Avenue in Des Moines in the summer of 2005 could miss the frustration of union members working in the sprawling red-brick Firestone tire factory, which sat on the city's northern edge. Workers had put up a large billboard painted with four words: export tires not jobs.
Some unions had caved in. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Recommendations for work-site programs are also made including environmental changes in work setting such as promoting healthy eating by increasing the availability of healthy food choices in cafeterias, instituting work-site campaigns to promote physical activity and healthy eating, and providing tax incentives to employers for providing weight management programs.
V. CONCLUSION
The goals of Healthy People 2010 are to reduce the prevalence of obesity among adults from 23% to 15% and to reduce the prevalence of obesity among children and adolescents from 11% to 5% [257, 258]. |
| Provide tax incentives to encourage employers to provide weight management programs.
Policy development
?Use the National Nutrition Summit to develop a national campaign to prevent obesity.
?Produce a Surgeon General's Report on Obesity Prevention.
?Expand the scope of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports to include nutrition and to emphasize obesity prevention.
?Develop a coordinated federal implementation plan for the Healthy People 2010 nutrition and physical activity objectives.
Source: Nestle, M., and Jacobson, M. F. (2000). |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 Sometimes unaware, intolerant, or abusive family members, teachers, employers, or others prevent or prohibit us from working out our thoughts and feelings. Sometimes, trauma comes at us so fast and furiously that we only have time for crisis management. If a flood destroys your family home, all your effort would go toward survival with little or no time devoted to handling the traumatic stress. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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| I have few qualms about waiving my professional fees for the initial assessment, if the circumstances warrant it (which is appreciated by those financially challenged patients but not by my financially challenged employers), but this is not to be expected from every doctor.
Next, you should ask your primary-care physician to provide advice about your memory challenge or other cognitive symptoms. |
Melody Petersen
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| But in industry, scientists followed the orders of their corporate employers, who were rarely scientists themselves and whose goal was to sell a product. The two cultures dealt differently with ethical issues, Dr. Ziman said.
"For most industrial scientists, an active concern about ethical issues is just asking for trouble," he wrote. "Better to treat the welfare of their firm or country as the supreme good."
For years this divide between academia and industry helped protect the public from science that was manipulated for the sake of profits. |
Mark Schapiro
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 In the United States, the bill known as Sarbanes-Oxley imposed far tighter requirements on corporations to ensure transparency and heighten the distance between corporate auditors and their employers. The Europeans followed suit with the Accounts Modernisation Directive, which has similar goals to Sarbanes-Oxley. But that directive adds several major components missing from Sarbanes-Oxley: most importantly, it requires publicly traded European firms to include future environmental liabilities in their accounting of costs and potential future profits. |
Michael J. Panzner
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 Lower pay scales overseas will also cap what U.S. employers are willing to pay.
Poverty, homelessness, and hunger, already much in evidence by the time hyperinflation kicks in, will worsen considerably, adding to a general mood of despair and helplessness. Over time, widespread want will spur increasing unrest, leading to almost continuous strikes, protests, and violence. In some cases, individuals will band together in ad hoc gangs or organized groups for self-protection. Workers of all stripes will do the same, and union membership will rebound sharply after falling for decades. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Half of personal bankruptcies are now due to the high cost of medical insurance and health care. employers can no longer afford medical insurance and remain competitive in the global marketplace. You see, a lot of jobs are leaving the country simply because the health care and health insurance costs are skyrocketing to the point where we can't compete in the global economy.
Organized medicine has given us a system of disease and bankruptcy, and all it can do is worry about the "pretty scary" side effects of alternative therapies that might actually help people be healthy. |
Sue Palmer
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 And government and employers should be looking for ways of making it easier for both sexes to spend time at home with their children.
How technology comes between parents and children
Technology has, however, presented humanity with another hurdle to overcome in the process of rethinking work and family commitments, one that may be more difficult for men than for women. All the prescriptions for successful parenting come back to two key words - time and attention - the two things adults born in the latter part of the twentieth century find it most difficult to spare. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Fortunately, employers have become more mindful of the possibility of repetitive motion injuries and are often more understanding than they might have been only a few years ago. Many now try to have their employees rotate the tasks they perform so that the risk of injury is reduced.
Q Maintain ideal weight, and lose weight if necessary. Excess weight results in extra pressure on the carpal tunnel. Losing weight has brought relief to many people with CTS. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That is in fact a fantastic benefit and I encourage employers out there to lighten up a little bit and stop thinking about the business suit as a symbol of credibility, but rather as a restriction of creativity and connection. It is the connection between the employees, team members, managers and the people they manage in your company that will ultimately help make your company a greater success. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The certification demonstrates to prospective employers and clients that people do indeed have an understanding of mechanisms, processes, techniques and procedures for marketing on the internet.
It's a very popular certification, the only such certification endorsed by a governor and state board of education. It's offered in 300 colleges around the world in 30 countries.
Mike: When you say it's offered in these 300 colleges, are they offering your courses?
Fleming: They offer our certification, not courses. We offer online courses, but they are separate and distinct from a certification. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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 Employers are complaining, state budgets are busted, and if you have to pay for your own prescriptions, you know firsthand how costly your pills are. Even the co-pays are getting outrageously expensive. Some insurance companies and HMOs are now charging a $40 or $50 co-pay for brand-name prescriptions.
Generic drugs are frequently promoted as the best solution to the high cost of prescription medicines. The savings can be dramatic. For example, at the beginning of this chapter, we listed the cost of 100 pills of Valium ($193.89). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The agency, of course, is spinning this whole proposal as a huge benefit to consumers, saying it would help them approve generic drugs more quickly, thereby saving U.S. employers hundreds of millions of dollars in lower drug costs. Of course, those same corporations could save BILLIONS if they invested in nutrition, prevention and natural health instead of drugs and surgery, but that's another story.
Clearly what we need is genuine FDA reform, not making the FDA even more addicted to industry money. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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 Nonetheless the label has stuck, indelibly in his son's record, causing many, such as potential employers, and sellers of health and other insurance to view him, in real-world terms as somehow brain-impaired. Even with the expensive help of attorneys, he is finding it impossible to remove the fraudulent, ADHD label.
I have no doubt that had Kelly and Larry Smith been told, honestly and factually, that their son Matthew was normal, and that ADHD was nothing but a set of bothersome behaviors, that they would never have allowed the poisoning of their son, and he would be alive today. |
Peter Rost
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 What I wanted to find out next was what Darren McAllister would say about me to future employers. As my direct supervisor, his support was crucial to get another job. Before taking on Pfizer, I needed to know what my options were, and if he was still loyal to me.
The fact that Darren had hired me not just once, but twice, was also important. First he had hired me into the international marketing department at Wyeth, in connection with the acquisition of the company I worked for at that time. |
Jacky Law
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 R&D and accounts for 29,000 jobs, making it one of the largest employers of science graduates.16 Since knowledge-economies can only grow by providing high-paying jobs for their best-educated citizens, the industry's employment record is its trump card.
Pharma employs top graduates throughout its business, in research, sales, marketing, manufacturing and management. Salaries are correspondingly high. Despite the high wage bill, pharma as a sector generates extraordinary profits for its shareholders. Takeda, a Japanese company, led the field with margins of 43.5% on its $7. |
| Another indication that public trust in medicines regulation may be misplaced came when Graham returned to work, having just testified against his employers. According to the British Medical Journal, he received a standing ovation. Graham had not minced his words. He had said the American people were not adequately protected in the current regulatory set-up. He went on to cite five other worldwide drugs concerning which he said the public had reason to be concerned. |
| Premiums were raised and were soon passed on from employers - who have traditionally paid for their staff's health expenses - to employees who found restrictions had been creeping into the deal since they were last sick.
Insurers did what it took to reduce costs. They signed up doctors into health maintenance organizations (HMOs), for example, which operate a bit like a mini-NHS with strict rules about what can and cannot be prescribed. |
Sue Palmer
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| For successful politicians in the Big Four, it seems that catering for the interests of employers and working parents is the priority. Their interest in the needs of small children is minimal. As US economist Shirley Burgraff put it, 'Children might as well come from cabbage patches as far as most political and economic theory is concerned.'
Childcare on the cheap
This isn't to deny the political and economic significance of childcare. Apart from anything else, it might help solve the economic time bomb of falling birth rates. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It can improve their grocery shopping decisions, their work performance, their relationships, their optimism and their longevity, and it can dramatically reduce the costs that they will place on our national healthcare system, whether it's private insurers, hospitals or employers that are footing much of the healthcare bill. This is why the number one change that we need to make in this country is to focus on our health. If we get our health right, many other problems will simply disappear, such as our global competitiveness. |
Peter Rost
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| I couldn't flee, since my most important reference refused to return calls from prospective employers. On top of it all, I had always been a very hardworking individual who loved to deliver results. This forced idleness was not something I enjoyed. But I also knew that this was part of the battle: to make me sweat so that I would break down. That was the last thing I would permit myself to do.
And then something interesting happened. I came across Marcia Angell s book, The Truth about the Drug Companies. Reading that book would change a lot for me. |
| For employers, the new statute "is disastrous in terms of its broad coverage," CFO magazine wrote. In my case, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act appeared to fit hand in glove with the accounting issues I had discovered in Japan.
And not only had the new law provided for criminal penalties for certain types of retaliation, it also stipulated civil penalties. The Act protected employees who take "lawful acts" to disclose information or otherwise assist criminal investigators, federal regulators, Congress, or the employee's supervisors. |
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