This article is a must read. How do you encourage doctors to go into geriatrics? Have them spend time as a resident in a nursing home. Great perspective. Any one trying to change the experience in long term care would be wise to do the same thing. In fact, it...
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AT&T Testing Technology to Aid Fall Prevention
AT&T is experimenting with telehealth devices and a communications network that might reduce falls in the home. One of three people over 65 fall each year. Almost a third of these accidents require medical treatment, and 10% result in serious injury or death. Nursing homes experience a fall a day...
Life Lessons to Hold Off Alzheimer’s Disease
Read our guest blog in Advance in Long term Care Management. We look at some life lessons that can help slow, maybe even prevent the onslaught of Alzheimer’s disease.
Who’s Reading Your Scan?
I am sure you have heard of radiologists in Australia reading the scans you had today at your hospital or imaging center. The upsurge in imaging studies, demand for fast turnaround and a shortage of radiologists has prompted this. For some that spells opportunity. Telerays, a Houston company, has started...
You Can Lead a Senior to Water but…..
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched the Medicare Health Support pilot project three years ago hiring eight private disease management firms to set up voluntary chronic care improvement programs for beneficiaries. At its height 150,000 seniors were enrolled in the program. 68,000 beneficiaries still receive services. By using...