by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Long Term Care, Medicine
Connections to Air Quality In a presentation titled “Aging Initiative: Protect Your Heart, Know Your AQI,” Sykes stressed that seniors and individuals in general ought to know their Air Quality Index, also known as AQI, as accessed on the EPA’s Air Now websites at...
by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Long Term Care, Medicine
A multi-prong strategy of solutions by government agencies, businesses and nonprofits would promote healthful and successful aging for seniors and protect the environment at the same time, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) representatives and pesticide control and...
by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Long Term Care, Medicine
In addition to the deaf, hard-of-hearing and visually-impaired, MMW coalition advocates say it is important to reach seniors with limited English proficiency (LEP) with healthcare information using “unique outreach methods” and “effective strategies.” During her own...
by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Long Term Care, Medicine
Aside from the deaf, visually-impaired seniors and individuals in general must also be served to enable them to gain access to Medicare and other government benefits. Kim S. Liddell, information and referral advocate for the Progress Center for Independent Living, an...
by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Long Term Care, Medicine
In particular, the MMW coalition is seeking to provide more services to the hard-of-hearing and deaf communities, she explained. “We tell how we reach certain groups.” Gerdes said. “We had JulieAnn Chavez, [former Make Medicare Work project coordinator for the...
by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Long Term Care, Medicine
With the difficulties involved, a suburban Illinois Medicare and benefits watchdog group plans to reach out to more disabled persons, limited English speakers, mentally ill patients, hearing- and vision-impaired individuals, welfare recipients and those new to...
by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Long Term Care
While the field has garnered much research and debate, especially in the face of budget cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, caregiving is largely under-resourced and under-funded, national industry experts say. During a panel at the American Society on...
by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Long Term Care
The idea came to Sherwin Sheik after seeing his family struggle to coordinate home health care for a blind, quadriplegic sister suffering from multiple sclerosis and a Lou Gehrig’s disease-stricken uncle needing around-the-clock care. Why not build a website and...
by Vladimire Herard | Dec 6, 2016 | Geriatrics, Long Term Care, Nursing
In this MediPreneurs profile, PharmPsych.com decided to feature Sherrie Dornberger, RN, GDCN, CADDCT, CDP, CDONA, FACDONA, executive director of the National Association of Directors of Nursing Administration/Long-Term Care, Inc. (NADONA) based in Cincinnati, Ohio,...
