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Yoga can help caregivers cope
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Published: March. 18, 2012 at 2:08 AM
LOS ANGELES, March 18 (UPI) -- For every victim of Alzheimer's -- about 5.4 million U.S. seniors -- there is an exhausted, lonely caregiver, but researchers say yoga may help.
Dr. Helen Lavretsky, professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, and colleagues said the study involved 49 family caregivers who cared for a relative with dementia ages 45-91 -- including 36 adult children and 13 spouses.
The participants were randomized into two groups. A meditation group was taught a brief, 12-minute yogic practice that included an ancient chanting meditation, Kirtan Kriya, which was performed every day at the same time for eight weeks. The other group was asked to relax in a quiet place with their eyes closed while listening to instrumental music on a relaxation CD, also for 12 minutes every day at the same time for eight weeks.
After eight weeks, the researchers found the meditation group showed significantly lower levels of depressive symptoms and greater improvement in mental health and cognitive functioning, compared with the relaxation group. The meditation group showed a 43 percent improvement in telomerase activity -- slower aging and improved immune cell longevity -- compared with 3.7 percent in the relaxation group.
"We know that chronic stress places caregivers at a higher risk for developing depression. On average, the incidence and prevalence of clinical depression in family dementia caregivers approaches 50 percent," Lavretsky said in a statement. "Caregivers are also twice as likely to report high levels of emotional distress and have an increased rate of cardiovascular disease and mortality."
The findings were published in online edition of the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
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Fitness First poised to be saved through debt-for-equity swap
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The largest health club group in the world - Fitness First - is said to be close to being rescued by a private investment fund
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THE largest health club group in the world - Fitness First - is close to being rescued by a private investment fund as it buckles under a 550 million debt burden.
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The gym chain, which employs 13,000 people and has 1.2 million members worldwide, is set to fall under the control of Oaktree Capital, the Mail on Sunday said.
Oaktree, which has reportedly been buying up the chains debt and now owns more than a third, is in talks with Fitness Firsts private equity backers BC Partners over a debt-for-equity deal.
Fitness First, which has 430 clubs worldwide, including 140 in the UK at locations including Colchester and Chelmsford, recently warned that it was unlikely to make an 18 million interest payment due this month.
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Fitness First ‘close to rescue’
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The largest health club group in the world Fitness First is close to being rescued by a private investment fund as it buckles under a 550 million debt burden.
The gym chain, which employs 13,000 people and has 1.2 million members worldwide, is set to fall under the control of Oaktree Capital, the Mail on Sunday said.
Oaktree, which has reportedly been buying up the chains debt and now owns more than a third, is in talks with Fitness Firsts private equity backers BC Partners over a debt-for-equity deal.
Fitness First, which has 430 clubs worldwide, including 140 in the UK, recently warned that it was unlikely to make an 18 million interest payment due this month.
A debt-for-equity swap will see Oaktree take a majority share but will allow BC Partners to keep part of its stake, which might lessen its losses in Fitness First.
BC Partners paid 835 million for Fitness First in 2005, which it has already mostly written off after the company racked up millions of pounds of debts.
Fitness First, along with rival LA Fitness, has found revenues squeezed in recent months because consumers are spending less and budget gym operators are growing.
The chain was paying 144 million in interest on its borrowings each year on revenues of 636 million, it was reported.
BC Partners fired the companys top management team as part of an overhaul, including chief executive Colin Waggett, finance director Duncan Tatton-Brown and UK managing director John Gamble.
Rothschild and veteran restructuring consultant Donald Featherstone, European head of the turnaround practice AlixPartners, were hired as advisers on its negotiations with lenders. BC Partners was forced to pull a planned 1 billion Singapore listing in 2011 after 17 of the 20 previous flotations tanked below their flotation listing price.
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