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Best Care for Geriatric Dogs
So how old is old? And is the one human year equals 7 dog years classic actually accurate? The reality is dogs are thought to be seniors at different ages depending on size and breed. Enormous breed dogs are usually considered senior at age 6 or seven years while many little breeds reach senior standing in their teen years. Usually dogs that are 7 years or older should be thought about for geriatric monitoring and a consultation with your vet is in order.
Signs of an Old Dog
As your dog ages, there are a few things you’ll start to observe.
Slowing Down
Hearing Loss
Clouded or Bluish Eyes
Muscle Atrophy
Following are suggestions of more serious problems. If you notice any of these signs you need to take your dog into the veterinarian as soon as possible.
Arthritic agony
Bad dog breath or Bleeding Gums
Unexpected Blindness, Hearing Impairment, Head tilt / Staggering
Change in Weight or Appetite
Change in Urine Output or Thirst
Cognitive Dysfunction
Alopecia / Itchy Skin
What can you do to keep your senior dog comfortable?
Keeping up with regular vet visits is significant during your dog’s senior years. And there are tons of things you can do at home to help them be more comfy.
Rest is crucial for older dogs. Try a soft comfy orthopedic bed.
To avoid extra muscle and joint strain, try using raised food and water dishes.
Joint supplements can help maintain healthier joints.
Senior dogs can easily become frightened or scared of serious noises, kids, crowds or other animals. Take care to avoid exposing your senior dog to intense circumstances. And you might need to think about using a relaxing supplement or relaxing aid during certain stressful times.
To ease digestion problems, try making the switch to a holistic grain free dog food and enzymes and probiotics.
Generally older dogs aren’t as active, so relax when it comes to the time period of exercise and play.
As your dog ages it is really important to grasp the results of age on their vitality. You will need to adjust some of your care and habits as time rolls by. And stay watchful for early signs of more significant problems. Most of all stay up on regular trips to your vet. For a great selection of geriatric dog supplies go to KVSupply.com.
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Geriatric Care Management a Viable Career Option for Private Duty Home Care Industry
Tucson, AZ (PRWEB) March 30, 2010
An estimated 46 million Americans – or one in five adults – provide unpaid care to a loved one valued at a staggering $ 306 billion each year. With experts predicting that healthcare will generate three million new jobs between 2006 and 2016, there is a growing need for professionals capable of coordinating care for the nation’s booming elder population.
Linda Fodrini-Johnson, president of the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers (NAPGCM), recently spoke about opportunities in geriatric care management at the National Private Duty Association’s (NPDA) 8th Annual Leadership Conference in Philadelphia. Geriatric care management is a field that private duty homecare providers (which include home health aides, companion care and case management) are finding to be an increasingly viable career option.
“With the influx of the Baby Boom population, we’re moving into a new era of healthcare,” said Fodrini-Johnson. “Consumers will need an expert around to help them navigate the maze of public and private sector programs, lighten the burden on caregivers and protect the nation’s most vulnerable citizens.”
Professional geriatric care managers have been educated in various fields of human services — social work, psychology, nursing, gerontology — and trained to assess, plan, coordinate, monitor and provide services for the elderly and their families. Serving as guide and advocate, they assist with all aspects of chronic care, from assessment of an aging parent’s needs to addressing the changing life needs of a family affected by chronic illnesses such as Alzheimer’s Disease or other types of dementia. Private duty home care agencies, on the other hand, provide home care aides, companion care, homemaker services or nursing services in the client’s home or place of residence. The cost for private duty home care is typically covered through long-term care insurance benefits, out-of-pocket, or other types of savings arrangements.
Fodrini-Johnson said private duty homecare agencies could benefit from having a professional geriatric care manager on staff. (More about integrating geriatric care management into the private duty homecare agency.)
“The GCM adds a professional component to any private duty homecare agency and it makes the business more attractive to consumers,” she said. “In addition, professional geriatric care managers can help assess new clients to ensure they’re not a risk. It’s really a win-win and it adds value and diversification to the agency.”
Visit here for more information about elder care careers in the geriatric care management industry or the NAPGCM’s new membership categories.
ABOUT NAPGCM
Based in Tucson, AZ, the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers (NAPGCM) was formed in 1985 to advance dignified care for older adults and their families. Geriatric Care Managers are professionals who have extensive training and experience working with older people, people with disabilities and families who need assistance with caregiving issues. They assist older adults who wish to remain in their homes, or can help families in the search for a suitable nursing home placement or extended care if the need occurs. The practice of geriatric care management and the role of care providers have captured a national spotlight, as generations of Baby Boomers age in the United States and abroad. For more information please visit http://www.caremanager.org.
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Dr. Ahmed K. El-Ghoneimy Joins Hampton Health, Ltd of San Francisco and Corte Madera, CA
Corte Madera, CA (PRWEB) July 22, 2009
Dr. Ahmed K. El-Ghoneimy has joined the geriatric specialty/internal medicine practice of Dr. John H. Fullerton of Hampton Health, Ltd of San Francisco and Corte Madera, CA.
Board certified in Geriatrics and Internal Medicine, Dr. El-Ghoneimy has seven years experience in the field of geriatrics and is an experienced hospitalist and educator. He has been an Associate Professor at the University of Hawaii and more recently at UCSF in San Francisco.
Serving as the medical director for various facilities and skilled nursing facilities in the area, he is experienced in end of life care in both nursing home and assisted living environments.
It is Dr. El-Ghoneimy’s dedication and desire to provide comprehensive, holistic and preventative care to his patients that prompted him to join Hampton Health, Ltd.
The geriatric-trained providers at Hampton Heath work closely with patients and their families to provide comprehensive care by promoting targeted healthcare screening and age-related disease monitoring and management, with emphasis on a personalized approach to enhancing quality of life.
As a geriatric specialty practice they serve as the centralized point of contact for access to other healthcare and wellness specialists and work closely with them as part of a multi-disciplinary team approach. Hampton Health, Ltd is uniquely situated and qualified to help families navigate the complex web of geriatric care and resources in Southern Marin and San Francisco.
Per Dr. John H. Fullerton, “Dr. El-Ghoneimy’s background, education and experience are rare and certainly rare in Marin. We welcome him to our practice.”
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The Value Of Geriatric Care Management Services
Also known as Geriatric Care, Elder Care or Aging Care Managers, a Geriatric Care Manager Specialist represents a growing trend to help full time, employed family caregivers provide care for loved ones living close by or needing long-distance care. Care managers are also particularly useful in helping caregivers at home find the right services and cope with their burden. Let’s look at a hypothetical example to see how valuable care managers can be.
Mary is caring for her husband at home. Because of diabetes her husband has severe neuropathy in his legs and feet and it is difficult for him to walk. He also has diabetic retinopathy and cannot see very well. Mary has difficulty getting her husband out of bed, bathed and dressed. She relies on her son who lives nearby to help her manage her husband’s care.
On the advice of a friend Mary is told about a care manager, Susan, who helped the friend’s family cope with the care of a loved one. The cost of an initial assessment and care plan from the care manager is 0.00. Mary thinks she has the situation under control and 0.00 for someone from the outside to come in and tell her how to deal with her situation seems ridiculous.
One day Mary is trying to lift her husband and injures her back severely. She is bedridden and cannot care for her husband. Her son, who works full-time, now has two parents to care for. On the advice of the same friend he decides to bring in Susan and pay her fee himself.
Susan does a thorough assessment of the family’s needs. She arranges for Mary’s doctor to order Medicare home care during Mary’s recovery. Therapists come in and help Mary with exercises and advice on lifting. Susan advertises for and finds a private individual who is willing to live in the home for a period of time to help Mary with her recovery and watch over her husband. Susan makes sure the new caregiver is reliable and honest and that taxes are paid for the employment.
Susan enlists the support of the local area agency on aging and makes sure all services available are provided for the family. Susan also calls a meeting with Mary’s family and explains to them the care needs and how they need to commit to help with those needs. Susan makes arrangements to purchase medical equipment for lifting, moving and easier use of the bathroom facilities. Medicare will pay much of this cost.
Susan suggests using a geriatric care Physician she works closely with to help Mary in the care of her husband. The geriatrician meets with Mary and her husband and spends a great deal of time explaining the proper treatment and care of elderly with diabetes. He rearranges medications and puts Mary’s husband on a new insulin regimen to better control his blood sugar. The geriatric Physician feels that Mary’s husband has a chance of improving his health with proper treatment. If her husband adheres to the care plan, he may end up having a better quality of life for his remaining years.
With the help of the care manager, Mary’s life and future has been significantly improved.
Dan Fisher RN, BSN
www.adhomehealthsolutions.com
Connecticut Care Planning Council Advisory Board
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Geriatric Consultants Can Help Families as Parents Age
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By Denice Gierach
As published in the Naperville Sun – June 15, 2008
As the population ages and particularly our parents age, it is appropriate and helpful to use the services of a geriatric consultant. A number of companies offer a large variety of services depending on your family’s needs. These firms are part patient advocate and part mediators with the family when required.
For instance, on many occasions it is necessary to determine whether mom or dad are able to live independently in their own home. While you might determine that mom or dad are not able to live by themselves anymore, a geriatric consultant may be able to step in, talk with your parent, evaluate the parent’s health as well as their home and surroundings. They also attempt to involve the parent in the decision, which, is a huge step for aging parents to take.
Sometimes, it is appropriate to have that parent live in assisted care. Many times, however, with the addition of a part-time care assistant and modifying the home environment to include items that would extend the time that the senior parent may be able to live in his or her own home semi-independently. This may involve a structural change to the residence, such as an elevator or chair to allow the senior to go to the second floor or remodel the first floor to accommodate another bedroom or making sure that the proper on-site caretaker is there to assist with chores around the home.
The geriatric consultant also can help to mediate between siblings, many of whom may have a different idea of how to help their parent. One sibling may feel that the parent would be better off in a nursing home or assisted care, while another may determine that the parent should stay in his or her home. Senior parents normally have enough of their own fears to deal with and tend to react negatively toward the conflicts between their children over what will happen with their lives.
If the parent has had extensive medical bills that need to be sorted or reimbursement needs to be applied for, many geriatric consultants may supply this need. The bottom line is that using a geriatric consultant will give your family piece of mind, as many of my clients can attest to.
Denice Gierach is a lawyer and owner of The Gierach Law Firm in Naperville. She is a certified public accountant and has a master’s degree in management. She may be reached at deniceg@gierachlawfirm.com. For more information on Denice and The Gierach Law Firm visit Gierach Law Firm.
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The Use of Geriatrics EMR
Geriatrics is a field of medicine which is usually interchanged with the medical practice on adult medicine. This, however, is a bit different than adult medicine as this is more focused on taking care of the health of the elderly people. This field promotes health, prevents diseases, and treats illnesses and disabilities among older adults. So, it this field of medicine is related to adult medicine; you might wonder why it is important to have a certain dedicated geriatric EMR for it.
A geriatric EMR is needed to be separated as there are records and features which are designed for the older adult patients. This application is totally different from that of an adult EMR because there are certain sicknesses that are only found among the older adults. With this information in mind; geriatrics should have a totally separate EMR application so that the records would be more specific and easier to deal with. This should be done as the target patients are on a special list and they do need more attention with regards to their needs and wants.
With our elderly patients, certain details when it comes to their special health condition issues needed to be recorded in a good application. Geriatric EMR is one application that is especially designed to update files, store files, and record new files regarding the common diseases that the elderly people acquire such as diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, and other illnesses. This electronic medical record designed for them can help lots of medical practitioners serve our elderly people in better ways more than one. They can easily retrieve data from a centralized database as long as their network is connected to it.
Now that the application has been proven to be of great help, then before you buy a certain geriatric EMR application; you should make sure that what you are buying is a proven application by not just a few but by lots of other medical practitioners who use the program. You would want to help those elderly people so when availing of such application, you should make sure that what you are trying to buy is something that can be really dependable. It is not just your license at stake here but the well-being of those elderly patients you look after too.For more information visit to our site at http://www.acrendo.com
Stephen Janssen began as medical professor who’s also known in writing different articles pertaining mainly to Health Services. Having been in the industry for more than two decades, he has gained reputation and even works as a consultant to Public Health Service patients.
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