May 16th, 2011
The road less traveled in healthcare is that of 1 to 1 relationships and patient advocacy culture. No where is this more palpable than in Home Care services, where the majority of Agencies and their representatives peddle for patients that represent only the bottom line for them. These are not ALL healthcare organizations and certainly [...]
December 8th, 2010
Home Care has incredible benefits. For one you are receiving care in the comfort of your own home surrounded by the people you love. The emotional benefits are huge!
November 18th, 2010
Long Term Care Insurance is one of those amazing tools that safeguard your finances as age creeps in, yet so many people are unaware of its asset protection potential. One way of describing it is that beginning in 2010 more than 8,000 people will turn 65 every day. At that rate of growth, the nation’s senior population will reach almost 72 million by2025!
November 9th, 2010
Though difficult to be one hundred percent ready for unforeseen events, it is possible to be well prepared and educated on options should any of these scenarios play out.
October 21st, 2010
Medicares’ hospice providers services to terminally ill patients and their families. These services do not include treatment, the care is mostly palliative in nature.
The majority of hospice patients receive care at home, but they can also be cared for at a Medicare approved hospice facility, nursing home or hospital.
October 11th, 2010
Unique agencies don’t think in terms of competitors, they think in terms of who is in the best position to help a patient. They don’t say “I’m sorry Sir but we don’t take that Insurance”, they find out who does and they provide an outlet.
October 6th, 2010
Patient’s live with chronic conditions 24-7, but the follow up, coordination, education and engagement is not. If patient’s are indeed to be engaged as consumers, then their condition’s lifecycle needs to be conceptualized as multidimensional and not linear.
September 15th, 2010
The idea here is to break the current fragmentation in healthcare delivery along the patients life cycle. Hospitals in particular are now having to engage more thoughtfully in the process post discharge. As many of us well know, chronic conditions are cyclical, episodic and expensive. The case management is everyone’s responsibility, clinicians, families and patient’s. Everyone plays a part.
August 23rd, 2010
Stressing the importance of understanding or at least being familiar with these topics and their variations as they’ll apply at some point in the future is no easy task. But we can stay informed and closed to the action by being active and participating in the conversation, the stories, and the experiences we encounter that hit close to home.
August 20th, 2010
One way of putting it is that by 2011, next year, baby boomers will begin to turn 65 at the tune of 8,000 per day. At this rate our senior population will reach almost 72 million by 2025.
