ys they should, that won’t happen of course as it buys votes, which to a sitting politician

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The Elderly and Prescribed Medication

Approx 80% of seniors take one prescription medication. And about 45% of seniors take three or more prescription medications.

The Elderly appear to be thinner. But they retain more body fat and have less lean muscle mass than they did when they were younger. This affects medications that are stored in the body’s fat.
  Elderly people will retain these medications longer and thus prolong the actions of the drug.
There is a decrease in the percentage of body weight made up of water. With a decreased percentage of water, some medications have increase concentration.

 Liver and kidney functions declines with age. The liver’s function is to breakdown the medication. The kidney’s function is to eliminate excess medication from your body.
 When these functions decreases,and work less efficiently medications can  build to toxic levels.

When you receive a new prescription for a medication you should ask questions of both your physician and your pharmacist until you know:
• What the name of the medication is
• What the medication is for and why you are taking it
• When to take the medicine.
If you still do not understand your new medication, continue to ask questions. Do NOT give up until you understand. ). Do not be afraid to be a pest. Ask and ask again until you understand your medications ( This is true of your current medications also.

It is your body !! You know it better than anyone !! So it is up to you to understand what medications can do to harm you as well as what they should do to assist with whatever they have been prescribed for.

As you get elderly this gets more impotant

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All he wants to use it for is getting online, surfing the net, and doing e-mail. He doesn’t want a used one or refurbished one. But, neither does he need all the bells and whistles. He doesn’t have room for a desktop.
well in micro center i saw a laptop that was small but used only linux, and hope he does not care that there is no CD drive dose he? computer cost $298

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83% of seniors take one prescription medication. And 50% of seniors take three or more prescription medications.
Changes related to medication and age:
There is an increase in percentage of body weight that is fat. Seniors appear to be thinner. But they retain more body fat and have less lean muscle mass than they did when they were younger. This affects medications that are stored in the body’s fat. Seniors will retain these medications longer and thus prolong the actions of the drug.
There is a decrease in the percentage of body weight made up of water. With a decreased percentage of water, some medications become more concentrated.
Both liver and kidney function declines with age. The liver’s function is to breakdown (metabolize) the medication. And the kidney’s function is to eliminate excess medication from your body. When their function decreases, they work less efficiently to eliminate the medication from the body. This allows some medications to build to toxic levels.
What to do with a new prescription
If you receive a new prescription for a medication make sure to ask questions of both your physician and your pharmacist until you know:
• What the name of the medication is
• What the medication is for and why you are taking it
• When to take the medicine.
If you still do not understand your new medication, continue to ask questions. Do NOT give up until you understand. (As a nurse I have seen numerous patients admitted to the hospital because they took their medications incorrectly. On one occasion, I know one patient died because of his lack of understanding of his new prescription). Do not be afraid to be a pest. Ask and ask again until you understand your medications (and this is true of your current medications as well. You do not have to wait for a new prescription to gain understanding of your medications.)
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Also, Habitat for Humanity had some thing going, but I believe this is only available in rural areas. I can’t remember the details.

Nonetheless, you can go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) http://www.cfda.gov and Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov – these are two sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants. Browse through the listings and see if you can find any grant that would support a for-profit venture.

Even if you buy books on "how to get grants" or list that supposedly has information on grants — all of them are mere rehash of what CFDA has, albeit packaged differently. But still the info is the same – hardly any grants for starting a for profit business.

Even SBA does NOT give out grants. From the SBA website http://www.sba.gov/expanding/grants.html…

"The U.S. Small Business Administration does not offer grants to start or expand small businesses, although it does offer a wide variety of loan programs. (See http://www.sba.gov/financing for more information) While SBA does offer some grant programs, these are generally designed to expand and enhance organizations that provide small business management, technical, or financial assistance. These grants generally support non-profit organizations, intermediary lending institutions, and state and local governments."

Most of the federal grants are given to specific target groups with specific requirements (e.g. minority business owners involved in transportation related contracts emanating from DOT – Grant#20.905 Disadvantaged Business Enterprises Short Term Lending Program

Grants are also often given to non profit groups or organizations involved in training or other similar activities (grant 59.043 Women’s Business Ownership Assistance that are given to those who will create women’s business center that will train women entrepreneurs

For private grants, you may want to check the Foundation Center’s Foundation Grants for Individuals Online. It’s a subscription based website ($9.95 per month) but their opening blurb only says that the database is ideal for "students, artists, academic researchers, libraries and financial aid offices." Entrepreneurs are apparently not one of them, so I take it they also don’t have listings of private foundations who give grants to would-be entrepreneurs.

http://www.cfda.gov
http://www.grants.gov
http://gtionline.fdncenter.org
http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol66/grants.htm
http://www.sba.gov/expanding/grants.html