Senior Housing Leader Ecumen Points Way to Post Partisanship: Long Term Care Financing Reform
Guest post in New York Times and latest whitepaper illustrate reasons why Sens. McCain & Obama are silent on Long Term Care Financing Reform and Outline Opportunity For Candidates
Long-term care Training by Ecumen To Teach Nurses on Psychoactive Medication and Alternatives
Classes designed to ensure directors of nursing and nursing staff separate myth from reality and learn non-pharmacological techniques to treat behaviors
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.
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.
Seniors Living Longer - 5 Steps You Must Do Now
Of all the high priority activities you re now doing in your life, what could be more important than those that promote your ability to increase the quality and length of your life? Here are five major steps that you must start developing now to accomplish this.
Long Term Care and Long Term Care Insurance
A person might need long term care (LTC) if he/she cannot perform activities of daily living such as eating, taking shower or getting dressed by him/herself anymore. Certain disease can also make long term care necessary.
Senior Summer School featured on Living Live!
William Levy, Presdient of Senior Summer School, Inc. is interviewed on Living Live! with Florence Henderson.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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Society of Certified Senior Advisors Introduces Comprehensive Online Resource to Clients in Need of Senior Housing
Denver, CO (PRWEB) July 30, 2008 -- CSA Senior Housing Locator lets users conduct free searches for housing anywhere, anytime. Society of Certified Senior Advisors(R) (SCSA) today introduced the CSA Senior Housing Locator, an online navigational tool designed to help its members and their clients find senior housing anywhere in the nation faster and easier.
The new informational resource -- a link to which can be found on www.csa.us -- allows users to search a database of more than 60,000 senior housing communities, including listings for all licensed senior housing in the nation. Searches can be conducted by city, county, ZIP code, community name, etc., and can be refined by criteria such as desired care services, payment options, and lifestyle amenities.
"The purpose of the Certified Senior Advisor designation is to create a professional who is in tune with the unique issues faced by their senior clients -- one of the most challenging being the need for appropriate housing," says Ed Pittock, SCSA CEO and president. "The introduction of the Senior Housing Locator ensures that CSAs are equipped to help older Americans and their families make informed decisions about their housing options from the most comprehensive and current listing service in the nation."
According to SNAPforSeniors -- the company which created the senior housing locator--there are 247 different senior housing license types across the country and new license types emerging each year. On top of allowing users to perform a search for housing anywhere in the nation, the Senior Housing Locator offers definitions for all of these license types. In doing so, the SCSA and SNAPforSeniors strive to make searching for housing in a different state much easier by providing the relevant information at the click of a mouse.
"With families spread all over the country and retirees moving to different areas, finding senior housing in another state is a common need for older Americans," says Derek Preston, CEO of SNAPforSeniors. "The Senior Housing Locator makes this process as simple as possible, and does so without the bias of referral services or advertising-based listing services. Consumers can collaborate with their trusted CSA's who now have access to an interactive tool intended to help seniors easily find the community which best fits their needs and preferences, the first time."
The Senior Housing Locator also provides users with a simple way to check how certain communities fare in Medicare inspection reports. Users can go directly to a Medicare-certified facility's Nursing Home Compare report page on medicare.gov, circumventing 7-10 additional pages to find the quality information desired. From this page, users are able to check how the facility fared in certain quality measures, as well as check staffing and inspection reports.
About SCSA:
Society of Certified Senior Advisors(R) (SCSA) is the world's largest membership organization educating and certifying professionals who serve seniors. Its headquarters is in Denver, Colorado.
About SNAPforSeniors(R):
SNAPforSeniors(R), Inc. is a Seattle-based information company and developer of the most current and comprehensive web-based senior housing resource and listing service in the United States. This resource puts objective information about the nation's 60,000+ licensed senior housing facilities at the fingertips of consumers and their advocates. SNAPforSeniors combines advanced search tools with detailed information to connect seniors with the right housing options the first time. Through the Alliance Network Program, SNAPforSeniors licenses and private-labels its database and search tools to the websites of leading trusted sources, including the Alzheimer's Association and the Case Management Society of America. For more information, e-mail info@snapforseniors.com or call 1-206-575-0728. http://www.snapforseniors.com
SOURCE SNAPforSeniors; Society of Certified Senior Advisors (SCSA)
NOTE TO EDITORS:
If you would like to speak with SNAPforSeniors spokesperson Eve Stern, please contact Katherine H. Capps 703-319-0957
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