Providing Quality Living: Adult Foster Care Homes
When age has caught up with your loved ones, leaving their bodies weak and their minds distraught, how will you protect them? How will you take care of them? Who will take care of them? For a conservative family, an institutionalized care is probably out of the picture. For a very conservative family, the scenario mentioned in the previous sentence connotes abandonment. I understand their sentiments but I don?t agree with regard the abandoning issue. Each of us has our own limitations. When caring for an aged individual exceeds your capacity, what?ll you do? What will you choose? Nursing homes? Foster homes? Adult housing? Adult day care? The thought of taking care of an elderly is admiring (heroic even.) However, the process itself require...
Living Large: Overweight Seniors Fueling Growth for Home Instead Senior Care Businesses
Home Instead Senior Care announces that the business is witnessing a dramatic demographic shift as the ranks of obese seniors grow and need personal care services. It might be called the tale of two Boomers: One day you hear that older adults have never been healthier; they're working out and buffing up at YMCAs and fitness clubs throughout America, and living longer as a result. At the same time, half of middle-aged adults between 55 and 64 have high blood pressure and two and five are obese, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.
Senior Summer School featured on Living Live!
William Levy, Presdient of Senior Summer School, Inc. is interviewed on Living Live! with Florence Henderson.
Elder Law and Long Term Care -- A Free Seminar for Seniors
A Life Long Learning Seminar titled, "Elder Law and Long Term Care" is being held Wednesday, April 18th, 2007, from 11:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. at Mount Royal Towers Retirement Community.
This free educational seminar will feature speaker Alan Zeigler, a local attorney, who will educate seniors on elder law, estate planning, real estate matters and financing long term care.
Medical Monitoring USA Medical Alarms Announces New Low Price for Reliable Assisted Living Alternative
Most medical alarm companies are over priced and pressure you into contracts or high equipment costs. Medical Monitoring USA has done away with high costs and contracts and is now making their product and service more affordable to seniors and people with fixed incomes. This is a wonderful opportunity for protecting seniors and persons with disabilities, and is now affordable to everyone.
Seniors Living Longer - Being Heallthy and Active Your Entire Life
The focus currently on the various possible ways to extend our life spans may be off-target, in one sense. The real desired goal is to extend the length of time that we maintain a healthful lifespan.
Arizona Assisted Living Homes -- The Alternative to High Priced Senior Care
The cost of skilled nursing care is slowly rising. Currently, the average cost of care in Arizona ranges from $3,500 to $4,500 per month.
Home Caregivers Accreditation of America becomes Shield Accreditation - Senior Home Care
Home Caregivers Accreditation of America, LLC (HCAOA), the only non-medical senior home care accreditation in United States has become Shield Accreditation. Dedicated to offering the safest and most professional home care agencies to American seniors, the firm confirms that care companies have the following insurances: general liability insurance, worker's compensation, a dishonesty bond and a business license where required. Shield Accreditation has a more focused approach to seniors and their agencies.
Senior Living Communities Adopting New Program and Online Tool to Help Residents Create Autobiographies
LifeBio.com empowers residents to record their life stories and preserve a lasting legacy for future generations.
Arizona Senior Housing: Care Options for Seniors Who Can No Longer Live Alone
The following are a few of the care options available for seniors who can no longer live on their own and require assistance with their Activities of Daily Living (ADL), or require skilled nursing care. Every state is a little different in terms of availability and cost, state regulations, and the specific names used for each care option:Assisted Living Home- A facility consisting of 10 or fewer residents in a private home setting located in residential neighborhoods.
Seniors Living Longer - Embrace Fiber As Your Friend
Eating fiber? Why should you care? After all, it cannot be digested by the human body. It has no nutritional value. In many forms, it is not that pleasant to eat. However, as we will discover, adequate fiber in your diet is vital for your good health.
HomeWell Senior Care is Here to Take Care of Your In-Home Care Needs
HomeWell Senior Care provides live-in and hourly personal care, companionship and homemaker services for seniors so they can remain in the comfort of their own home. HomeWell Senior Care makes life more comfortable with our personalized in-home care service. As the 'Senior Care Specialists', we work hard so seniors can enjoy the quality of life they deserve while remaining in the comfortable and familiar surroundings of their own homes indefinitely.
Strategies on Paying for Nursing Home Care and Medicaid
The decision to place your loved one into a nursing home is an
extremely difficult decision, often causing much guilt for the
caregiver. It is a very emotional decision for most clients we see and
most are under a certain amount of stress, often great, when facing what
they consider to be a drastic course of action.
Senior Living Communities: A Great Place To Retire In Style
All through our lives we dream of long vacations in sunny places. We always want to take time to relax and spend time with friends and do fun activities. We want to be able to take advantage of our lives and really enjoy ourselves. Unfortunately most of us have very busy lives.
Long Term Care Associates Supports the "Tax Relief for Long-Term Care Act of 2008"
Long Term Care Associates will lead a national call to support the "Tax Relief for Long-Term Care Act of 2008". Introduced as H.R. 6237 by Representative Joe Courtney (D-CT), the Bill would provide a valuable federal tax credit toward the purchase of qualified long-term care insurance in addition to providing relief for taxpayers who provide care to those with long-term care needs.
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Florida Woman Faces Death Unless Hospital Reimburses Illegal Medicare Charges
Jacksonville, FL (PRWEB) March 19, 2008 -- Geraldine Hayes needs an immediate transport from Jacksonville, FL, to a receiving medical facility in New Jersey for emergency treatment of a deadly dinner plate-sized decubitus ulcer (bed wound) which is infecting the now exposed bone structure and ligaments of her sacral area. Mrs. Hayes is also suffering from a GI bleed.
Despite her immediate need, Mrs. Hayes is going nowhere - her remaining Medicare coverage was illegally billed and collected by Halifax Hospital, the facility where she obtained the wound. The county hospital billed for nearly $1 million, collecting $286,101 in Medicare payments for Mrs. Hayes' unusually long stay of six months. Meanwhile, Mrs. Hayes remains barred from her transport and the treatment she must have - because she cannot pay for it. Medicare launched what may be a two or three week investigation on Friday, March 14.
Mrs. Hayes, a 71 year-old mother and grandmother, arrived at Halifax Hospital, on August 29, 2007, for a heart surgery which Halifax staff mysteriously delayed for 43 days. Earlier, Mrs. Hayes had been scheduled to transfer to New Jersey for dialysis treatment. Nearly seven months later, she has never been released for her transfer and has never returned to her home in Florida.
Instead Mrs. Hayes has endured system failure, the loss of her right leg, severe neurological damage, a prolonged coma and resulting GI bleed and life threatening bed wound that measures 14 by 11.2 centimeters.
After months of decline at Halifax Hospital, Hayes was finally able to be transferred to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL, for tests. She has been able to remain as a patient at Mayo Clinic where she has received life-saving care.
But despite Mayo Clinic's continued compassionate care of Mrs. Hayes, the need to transfer her to the proper facility to treat her dangerous wound remains. But so does the dilemma with her much needed Medicare coverage.
Specifically, Mrs. Hayes' family prohibited Halifax Hospital from billing her 60-day lifetime reserve with Medicare. Mrs. Hayes account was also previously flagged by Medicare at the request of her family, after Halifax attempted to access the lifetime reserve on another occasion.
As of Tuesday, March 18, Adult Protective Services, under the Florida Department of Children and Families, also began its own investigation of Halifax Hospital for elder abuse on behalf of Mrs. Hayes.
Mrs. Hayes' daughter, Angela Clemente, who is better known as a top-rated forensic analyst, has been leading the fight for her mother's life. Clemente, whose forensic work led authorities to the recovery of hidden explosives at the home of Terry Nichols, (convicted accomplice with Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing), says she will not give up until her mother is receiving proper treatment in New Jersey.
"For six months Halifax Hospital delayed necessary medical treatment and abused my mother, all the while thwarting her transfer to a new medical facility where she would have received much needed care," said Clemente. "Halifax must immediately relinquish my mother's Medicare funds which they have obtained illegally."
Video footage and digital photos available.
Debra Wahlberg
Save Geraldine Hayes
512-852-9741
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