Archive for the ‘Caregivers / Homecare’ Category
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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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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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
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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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
With family members now responsible for 80% of caregiving in the United States, nearly every generation is feeling the ripple effects of the aging process. Drawing on AARP's depth of expertise on the topic, AARP Publications is pleased to debut two new initiatives this week - Caring for your Parents ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Older adults want to use technology so they can age safely in their home. Family caregivers agree believing technology can ease some of the challenges of caregiving. Concerns such as cost to install and maintain equipment remain barriers for people 65-plus and for caregivers. These are the conclusions of two ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
The first survey of social workers who provide services to sandwich generation women-women between the ages of 35 and 64 who are "sandwiched" by the needs of their children and their aging parents-found that this group, which typically shoulders a family's caregiving burdens, is ill-prepared for the challenges of ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
A new UK study has found that anti-psychotic drugs, such as (Melleril), chlorpromazine (Largactil), haloperidol (Serenace), trifluoperazine (Stelazine) and risperidone (Risperdal), are bad for patients with Alzheimer's disease - the drugs were found to make their condition worse. The researchers, from Kings College London and the Universities of Oxford and ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Patient Placement Systems announced that Welch Healthcare & Retirement Group of Norwell, Mass., has deployed the Referral Management System(TM) Enterprise Edition, marking the first use of dedicated online referral management for centralized admissions in the continuing care industry. The Referral Management System online long-term care software automates referral communications and ...
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