President of the Coalition of Wisconsin Aging Groups Nino Amato says while the governor is trying to save m by shifting from Senior Care to Medicare Part D, its those on Senior Care that will pay a ‘hidden tax’ for the move. 4/13/11 By Jackie Clews
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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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www.balancedhealthtoday.com http Regular exercise and/or increased aerobic fitness are associated with a decrease in all-cause mortality and morbidity in middle-aged and older adults.2,3 Subgroup analysis of the Harvard Alumni study found that modest increases in life expectancy were possible even in those patients who did not begin regular exercise until age 75.11 Mortality rates were also lower in those patients who did not begin regular exercise until late in life compared with patients who were active only in younger years and then subsequently stopped exercising.11 Thus, it is never too late for patients to benefit from physical activity. The health benefits of exercise follow a hyperbolic dose-response curve. Those patients who go from none to some exercise receive the greatest health benefits, while further increases in activity levels bring progressively smaller improvements.12 Physicians can have the greatest overall impact by helping their sedentary patients to become active. Virginia Beach Virginia USA Gabon, Libreville Thousand Oaks, California Iraq, Baghdad City of Randwick, Australia Serbia, Belgrade Iceland, Reykjavik Orange, Australia Baton Rouge, Louisiana Kalgoorlie, Victoria www.balancedhealthtoday.com www.balancedhealthtoday.com
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Understanding Geriatric-Specific EMR
Taking are of the elderly is a responsibility not just of the immediate famiy but also of those health care providers who are specializing in geriatrics. The study and care of the aging process is essential so to give those elderly people the medical interventions they need in order to achieve comfort and favorable health conditions as they age. Geriatrics has been considered one of the important specializations in medicine since it covers a large population needing it. Geriatric emr is now considered the ultimate ally of health care providers specializing for the need of the aged because of its ability to hasten and ease out the provision of interventions for adults.
The use of electronic medical records system in geriatrics ensures that the health care providers and the patients are able to record important details regarding their health conditions. Alzheimer’s and diabetes are very common adult illnesses which could be catered to by the geriatric emr in a more efficient and reliable manner compared to manual recording of medical background. The geriatrics experts will be able to grab the chance of allowing access when even offline and be able to run simultaneously as many programs as needed.
In order to make sure that you are opting for the right system, there are only two things which you need to make sure before deciding. The first one is your ability to ask for a demonstration of how the geriatric emr program could be used. The demonstration will help you infer if the program is making use of a friendly interface that will reduce the complexities of usage. On the other hand, you should also check on the completeness of features so that you will relieve yourself of hassles of paying for something not worth your money and effort. 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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Developing Your Business – A Guide For Nursing Home and Senior Care Facility Owners – Part 3
In my last article I discussed the modern means of initially looking for a senior care facility, as well as what happens when I try to contact that senior care facility, via telephone for further information.
The general method used by senior care facilities to deliver information to potential customers is that of a brochure. As an exercise, I recently ‘mystery-shopped’ ten different senior care facilities; of the six that I actually managed to get through to and then the four senior care facilities from these who actually took my details, two have sent me brochures. However, neither of these senior care facilities actually know that, since neither gave me a a follow-up call to ensure I had everything I needed (and therefore have another opportunity to see if I am ready to visit).
A useful timeline to follow with regards to sending brochures and following up on enquiries is as follows:
Day 1- Enquiry receivedàBrochure pack sent- LOG ENQUIRY
Day 4- 1st Follow-up call to ensure customer has received all information. Encourage visit…
…if no visit booked…
Day 10- 2nd Follow- up call. Aim is to get visit booked if not already done so.
Equally, if your home has a website through which you can accept enquiries, make sure that you do check the web address that they come to on a regular basis; e-mail enquiries should be treated with the same level of importance as telephone enquiries.
Very importantly nowadays, is keeping track of those people who do email you. It is worth using an ‘opt-in’ box on any email forms you use, asking the person if they would like to receive monthly updates from you in the form of perhaps a newsletter. This means that not only will you be keeping a possible ‘speculative’ enquiry live, but also proving to people beyond the realms of a website or a brochure that you do actually run the activities you are so proud to list!
In my next article I will discuss whether the 20% of senior care facilities who did fully respond to my telephone enquiry actually do enough to encourage me to visit that senior care facility.
Lisa O’Neill is founder and managing director of http://www.whereforcare.com, the online ratings and information resources for senior care, carehomes and childcare across the UK and the US.
After spending three years working for one of the UK’s largest care home providers in the fields of sales, marketing and business development, Lisa took the decision to use her 10 years experience in the healthcare sector to both establish the Whereforcare websites and move into the field of senior care consultancy. The sites provide advice and support to those looking for care facilities for themselves or a loved one, and, by enabling consumers to post ratings about the nursing or childcare facilities listed based on their own experiences, helps people to identify the best facilities in their area.
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PBS airdate: Check local listings. www.pbs.org While family caregivers give of themselves out of love, there are real physical, emotional and financial costs associated with caregiving. As we live longer and caregiving becomes a bigger issue in the US, learn what can be done to help our caregiving community.
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