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Top Themed Cruises for 2010 Reported by Phoenix Caregiver
Care-To-Go Travel Companions are always on the lookout for interesting travel deals and ideas. The following article for travel agents reveals Top 30 Themed Cruises for 2010. Traveling Caregiver assistance can make a vacation for a senior an enjoyable and safe event.
Tapping into themed cruises that precisely match your client’s interest, hobby or passion is equivalent to adding a “must-have” ingredient to your recipe for sales success.
Themed cruises often include private onboard events or activities not open to regular cruise guests. So, “the cruise isn’t sold based on price, it’s sold on a specific experience,” stresses Susan Schaefer, independent affiliate of America’s Vacation Center, Brentwood, TN. “Your client isn’t looking for the lowest price, so you aren’t competing with pricing when selling a themed cruise.”
Care-To-Go Travel Companions can be reached at 800-818-0407 or on the web at www.CareToGoTravel.com
Phoenix Travel Companion Explains TSA Bag Security
Care-To-Go Travel Companion reveals anti-theft tip for checked bags.
Checked bags for air travel must be available for inspection by TSA after you check them. Most bags are left unlocked per airline instructions. This often results in valuable items being stolen between you checking them at departure and you retrieving them at your destination.
The following is an article from the TSA explaining locks that they can open with a master key. Hopefully, all the other baggage handlers along the way will not have access to your bags.
TSA screens every passenger’s baggage before it is placed on an airplane. While our technology allows us to electronically screen bags, there are times when we need to physically inspect a piece of luggage. TSA has worked with several companies to develop locks that can be opened by security officers using universal "master" keys so that the locks may not have to be cut. These locks are available at airports and travel stores nationwide. The packaging on the locks indicates whether they can be opened by TSA.
Care-To-Go Travel Companions can be reached at 800-818-0407 and on the web at www.CareToGoTravel.com
Care-To-Go reports– Blood Pressure Worry: It’s Linked to Dementia
How a Travel Companion can assist with senior travel. Travel Companions can travel with the elderly traveling by car, air, or on a cruise.
Memory loss is a major factor slowing elderly travel. Aside from physical limitations, anxiety and memory loss are the main two factors stopping senior travel.
Phoenix, Scottsdale, Caregiver reports that Blood pressure worry can be linked to dementia in the elderly.
HEALTHBEAT: Study will put to test growing evidence linking high blood pressure to dementia
By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON January 25, 2010 (AP)
If the cardiologist’s warnings don’t scare you, consider this: Controlling blood pressure just might be the best protection yet known against dementia.
In a flurry of new research, scientists scanned people’s brains to show hypertension fuels a kind of scarring linked to later development of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Those scars can start building up in middle age, decades before memory problems will appear.
The evidence is strong enough that the National Institutes of Health soon will begin enrolling thousands of hypertension sufferers in a major study to see if aggressive treatment — pushing blood pressure lower than currently recommended — better protects not just their hearts but their brains.
"If you look … for things that we can prevent that lead to cognitive decline in the elderly, hypertension is at the top of the list," Dr. Walter Koroshetz, deputy director of NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, told The Associated Press.
Age is the biggest risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia that affect about one in eight people 65 or older.
Scientists have long noticed that some of the same triggers for heart disease — high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes — seem to increase the risk of dementia, too. But for years, they thought that link was with "vascular dementia," memory problems usually linked to small strokes, and not the scarier classic Alzheimer’s disease.
Now those lines are blurring as specialists realize that many if not most patients have a mix of the two dementias. Somehow, factors like hypertension — blood pressure readings of 140 over 90 or higher — that weaken arteries also seem to spur Alzheimer’s disease-like processes.
One suspect: Scarring known as white matter lesions. White matter acts as the brain’s telephone network, a system of axons, or nerve fibers, that allow brain cells to communicate with each other. Even slightly elevated blood pressure can damage the tiny blood vessels that nourish white matter, interrupting those signals.
Care-To-Go, Phoenix, Scottsdale, home care, caregivers can be reached at CareToGoTravel.com and 800-818-0407