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.
Nutrition Specialist Helps Senior Citizens Live Longer
The first of baby boomer generation will become senior citizens this year. Nutrition specialist from www.babyboomercaretaker.com gives health tips to help American baby boomers to live longer.
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...
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 Summer School featured on Living Live!
William Levy, Presdient of Senior Summer School, Inc. is interviewed on Living Live! with Florence Henderson.
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
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.
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.
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Healthcare Management, Consulting Leader QHR Names Rick Drake Senior Vice President of Business Development
Brentwood, Tenn. (PRWEB) August 4, 2008 -- QHR (http://www.qhr.com), the nation's largest healthcare management (http://www.qhr.com/qhr2.nsf/View/How_QHR_Provides_Value) company and one of the leading healthcare management consulting (http://www.qhr.com/qhr2.nsf/View/qhrconsultingservicesoverview) firms in the United States, has added a dynamic new sales leader to its Business Development team. Rick Drake, with more than 30 years' experience and expertise in this area, joined the company as senior vice president of Business Development in July.
"Rick is a proven leader in the areas of business development, sales and marketing," said QHR President and CEO James L. Horrar (http://www.qhr.com/qhr2.nsf/View/ExecutiveProfiles). "I feel certain that under his direction, our sales team will not only meet, but also exceed its goals for growth."
According to Horrar, as senior vice president of Business Development, Drake will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of new-client business development, including the building, training and maintaining of a world-class sales team. He will also be charged with developing strategies that will successfully broaden QHR's client base - allowing the company to expand into new markets and hospitals.
A New England native, Rick Drake previously served as vice president of client management for UnitedHealthcare National Accounts, located in Hartford, Conn. In this role, he contributed significantly to the development of the company's corporate client, retiree, member and labor engagement strategies, and helped shape external messaging while contributing to performance management. Prior to this, Drake was vice president of business development for DreamReacher, Inc. in Rocky Hill, Conn.; vice president, market development, of CIGNA Reinsurance in Hartford, Conn.; senior vice president and chief marketing officer of College Savings Bank in Princeton, N.J.; and held various senior-level positions at Aetna Life and Casualty, also in Hartford.
Drake is a Six Sigma Champion, a fellow of the International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists (ISCEBS), and a certified employee benefit specialist (CEBS). He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
QHR (http://www.qhr.com) is a family of brands that has provided consulting, management and education resources to hospitals and health systems for three decades. QHR Management Services is the dominant market leader in hospital management resources, with nearly 170 current multi-year clients across the United States. QHR Consulting Services is among the 15 largest healthcare management consulting firms in the United States, with more than 150 consultants providing financial, operational and strategic support to hospitals. Each year, the QHR Learning Institute trains more than 8,000 healthcare professionals to achieve business goals by improving their leadership and management capabilities. For more information, go to www.qhr.com.
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