Archive for the ‘Caregivers / Homecare’ Category
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Today's mother often juggles full-time employment, household chores and parenting, but a growing number of women are taking on yet another responsibility-caring for an aging loved one. Next week, as Americans observe both Mother's Day and Mental Health Month, Mental Health America encourages mothers to take the Mental Health Connection ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
"The system is somewhere between flawed and lousy," said U.S. Representative Pete Stark (D-Calif.) in yesterday's House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee hearing on the Medicare competitive bidding program. The hearing was held because of concerns Stark and his colleagues have heard from constituents in the homecare community. ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
In testimony today before the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health, the American Association for Homecare (AAHomecare) urged Congress to suspend a controversial, flawed Medicare bidding program for home medical equipment, calling it "a train wreck." The congressionally mandated "competitive bidding" program was designed to reduce the number of ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Weill Cornell Medical College has been awarded $80,000 to study the creation of a Manhattan Elder Abuse Case Coordination and Review Center (EACCRC), in collaboration with the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Center for Elder Abuse Prevention at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale and the New York City Elder Abuse Network.Funded ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Research carried out at the Peninsula Medical School, South West England, has found strong links between neighbourhood deprivation and the physical and intellectual health of older people.Two studies were conducted, both using data on participants in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA).The first study investigated over 7,000 individuals aged ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission on Wednesday voted to approve several recommendations to Congress focused on Medicare reimbursements for skilled nursing facilities and primary care, CQ HealthBeat reports (Reichard, CQ HealthBeat, 4/10).The commission recommended amending the Medicare payment system for skilled nursing facilities to add a "separate nontherapy ancillary component" ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Help the Aged is launching a new resource for practitioners to support them in the run up to National Falls Awareness Day on 24th June 2008. 'Fall Stop' summarises the findings of 'Falls Prevention in Practice' a pan-European literature review commissioned by Help the Aged, which aims to improve practitioner ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
A new Medicare bidding program for durable medical equipment (DME) scheduled to be implemented in 10 metropolitan areas starting on July 1, 2008 will put many DME providers out of business and will disrupt services for many of the three million seniors and people with disabilities living in those areas. ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
The latest issue of The Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences (Vol. 63, No. 3) features a special section devoted to the phenomenon of multidimensional geriatric assessment - an interdisciplinary diagnostic process to determine the medical, psychological, and functional status of at-risk and frail elderly patients in order to develop a ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Understanding the often complex medical information your doctor or other caregivers give to you can be difficult, and the consequences of misunderstanding this information can be life threatening. The Joint Commission is launching a national campaign to help ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Help the Aged responded to a new evaluation study published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation which found that bringing a community nursing and physiotherapy team into residential care homes for older people improved quality of life and reduced hospital admissions. The two-year pilot scheme, set up in a group ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
A new Medicare bidding program for durable medical equipment (DME) scheduled to be implemented in 10 metropolitan areas starting on July 1, 2008 will put many DME providers out of business and will disrupt services for many of the three million seniors and people with disabilities living in those ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Aerotel Medical Systems, one of the world's leading manufacturers of advanced telemedicine and remote monitoring solutions, announced today that Vodafone Spain in conjunction with Medicronic Salud have used Aerotel's e-CliniQ™ Wireless Home Monitoring System with successful results. The e-CliniQ™ Wireless Home Monitoring System enables patients to keep track of their ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
When a family member is dying, how can their loved ones provide the care and comfort needed?Increasingly, Americans are turning to hospice for help. Hospice is a term that describes programs involving a team of individuals who work together to provide optimal supportive care for terminally ill individuals and their ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
With Australia's ageing population, diseases like dementia are on the rise. And, thanks to $1.7 million in recent grants, The University of Queensland will be at the forefront of research dealing with a range of dementia-related issues. Three UQ research teams have won National Health and Medical Research Council ...
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