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10.27.2011		Drug 'Fixing' Drives Cost Increases for Consumers American consumers may have intentionally been denied access to lower-cost prescription drug alternatives from October 2010 through September 2011, according to new data released Oct. 25 by the Federal Trade Commission. According to an overview of...

09.29.2011		Editorial: An Important Resource for Seniors and Families Recently I learned about a new (for me) resource for the elderly in the state of Florida. The Long-term Care Community Diversion Program is a Medicaid waiver program designed to provide services and community-based resources to people who would otherwise...

07.07.2011		61% of Power Wheelchairs Fail To Meet Medical Necessity, Says Report Most power wheelchairs provided by Medicare, the federal program that provides healthcare services to individuals over 65 years old, did not meet medical necessity guidelines, according to a report released July 7 by the U.S. Office of the Inspector General...

07.07.2011		Who (or What) Will Take Care of Seniors Tomorrow? As America ages and bureaucrats bicker about the best ways to provide adequate care for our maturing boomers, private technology and software companies are busy developing new and unique solutions to ensure our aging parents can stay at home for as long as...

06.10.2011		New Medicaid Rule Offers Same-sex Couples Spousal Protections Same-sex couples and domestic partners can be offered the same financial protections that are available to opposite-sex couples when a partner is entering a nursing home or other healthcare facility, according to a new Medicaid policy guidance released...

06.09.2011		Editorial: A Clinical Refresher: Pituitary Disorders, Challenges and Treatment Options It’s a condition that’s often overlooked. And it can result in physical and behavioral health problems that often go unnoticed. What is it? The broad realm of pituitary disorders. In coordination with the Pituitary Network Organization, a new...

04.14.2011		Intergenerational Caregiving: When the Parent Becomes Human For the adult child, the act of caregiving means reengaging with the most profound and influential attachment of one’s life: the parent. There are few models for negotiating the powerful parent–child bond in later life. ...

04.01.2011		Numerical Insights Into Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease 8 There are about eight common types of dementia, including vascular dementia, mixed dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, Parkinson’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, normal pressure hydrocephalus and, of course...

04.01.2011		The Hidden Specialty of Long-Term Acute Care Long-term acute care hospitals are perhaps the single-most unknown specialty in healthcare. Even if you are familiar with an LTAC, or utilize the level of care that is provided, they are very much unknown from the perspective of what they can provide to the...

04.01.2011		Inspiring Strong Palliative Care Options A diagnosis of a serious or life-limiting illness can have profound effects on the person diagnosed, as well as on the person’s family and friends. The challenge of facing such a diagnosis involves living with uncertainty while still wanting to maintain...

04.01.2011		Care Managers Tackle Long-Term Care In California, about 20 percent of Medicare beneficiaries, or 81,000 individuals, end up back in the hospital within 30 days of being discharged, usually for reasons related to their initial admission, according to a new study from the California Discharge...

02.03.2011		Afraid of Deadly Medical Mistakes in the Hospital? 10 Ways To Avoid Them Patient safety efforts in hospitals are falling short. A new six-year study at 10 North Carolina hospitals that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that efforts to decrease the number of medical mistakes in U.S. hospitals have...

01.20.2011		Seniors and Depression: Not An Uncommon Pair Depression is not considered a part of the normal aging process. However, depression late in life is quite common: an astounding 19 percent of those aged 65 and older, or some 6.5 million, experience it. Forced relocation, such as having to move into a...

01.06.2011		FDA-approved Drug Proves Effective in Fighting Obesity   It’s America’s great epidemic, accounting for approximately 10 percent of health spending. Yet obesity is not often treated with the seriousness it deserves by the patient and, in some cases, the healthcare professional. It is a serious disease...

12.17.2010		The Positive Uses of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Fifteen years ago there were few decisions to be made when choosing negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) for your patients. There was one company, one wound filler and one device type on the market. Today there are numerous NPWT manufacturers, multiple...

12.17.2010		Supercharged Cost Drivers Medical costs as a percentage of total claims are on the rise. Such costs rose from 46 percent in 1987 to 59 percent in 2007, according to the National Council on Compensation Insurance. Two of the top cost drivers are obesity (and associated co-morbidities)...

10.14.2010		Multiple Medication Dilemmas Strategies for lowering the risks of polypharmacy Polypharmacy is a common problem encountered by clinicians caring for the elderly. It is encountered in all care settings, ranging from outpatient to long-term care, where it is particularly linked with falls...

10.14.2010		Demonstrating the Value of Case Management in the Medical Home Rising healthcare costs, increasing numbers of uninsured and uncertain quality are triggering renewed debate about the organization and delivery of healthcare in the U.S. Many have noted that Americans are not getting sufficient value for the $2 trillion...

09.01.2010		The Overlooked Brain Disease The term hydrocephalus comes from the Greek words “hydro” meaning water and “cephalus” meaning head, leading the condition to be referred to by laypersons as “water on the brain.” However, the primary characteristic of...

09.01.2010		Managing Multiple Sclerosis Since the mid-1990s, Clay Walker has achieved an incredible amount of success as a country music artist. His songs have run to the top of the Billboard charts on six separate occasions. In all, he’s sung and songcrafted his way onto the Billboard...

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