If you’re concerned about your elderly parents, physically challenged parents, or those who may be targets for attacks, robberies, and physical abuse, check out the possibility of them taking a cane-fu fighting class.  (You may want to take it along with them!)

This is physical defense using a cane.  The cane-fu classes also are good sources of exercise and many senior centers are offering them.

Check out the post about cane-fun fighting at Elder Guru for more information (click on link above).  There’s also a video to give you “live” action information.

Derrick mentions that even the Wall Street Journal recently published an article about this popular self-defense/exercise activity and links to it.

In Derrick’s post, he relates the incidents where an older citizen protected himself with his cane.  Of course, you have to use common sense when defending yourself, but a cane-fu class would appraise you of these matters.

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“Cane-Fu Fighting” for Parents’ Safety

Watch out for your Alzheimer’s family member (and yourself if you’re “senior”) if Obama’s Stimulus Bill sneaks through in its current form.
  

As ultimately planned, your doctor will have to get permission for your treatment, possibly by someone not medically trained but only looking at the bottom dollar or cost effectiveness:

•  Is the cost of treating this person (you or your Alzheimer’s family member) economically worthwhile, considering age, life expectency and contribution or drain upon society?
• Will this person be a productive, contributing member of society if treated? 
• Will the cost of treatment outweigh their future productiveness?
• Will the person be a burden…so we’ll let them die? 

Senarios:

• Would my mother have been allowed to suffer and die or, perish the thought, be “put out of her misery,” when she broke her hip during her Alzheimer’s years?  Because it was treated, she lived 8 more years…yes, in a nursing home and slowly progressing further into Alzheimer’s.  But still she was a joy to her family and, by living and simply being there, taught her great grandchildren about love and caring.
• Would I have been forced to go untreated when I broke my back and required a body cast?  Would we have had to prove my future contributions to society?
• Would my mother-in-law with breast cancer in her early 80s have been considered too old for the lumpectomy and radiation?  (She died 12 years later of congestive heart failure, at age 94, cancer free.  But no one could have predicted that longevity when she was treated.)

Non-complying doctors would be penalized if they treated a person the health care coordinator deemed unprofitable for society.  The individual who could afford to go outside the system for treatment would be penalized.  (”Penalized” could mean fines and even jail time.)

These national health care provisions could affect more than the elderly and infirm.  What about anyone who is terminally ill or deemed not worth the expense of getting them well? 

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Motto of the Stimulus Bill 

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Stimulus Health Care Provisions Could Eliminate the Elderly, the Infirm & Terminally Ill

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‘The Zimmers’ have nothing to do with Alzheimer’s Disease.