The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has opened a toll-free National Caregiver Support Line that will serve as a primary resource/referral center to assist caregivers, Veterans and others seeking caregiver information can call the line, which is staffed by VA employees who are licensed clinical social workers. The Support Line...
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Family Caregiver Survey Explores Use of Technology
United Healthcare in connection with the National Alliance for Caregiving recently conducted a survey to examine family caregiversäó» receptivity to technology. The study assessed how helpful 12 technologies would be in supporting caregivers or helping them provide care. The 1,000 family caregivers surveyed have expectations for the technology including: being...
Long-Term Care Funding: Here’s Looking to You!
The Commonwealth Foundation conducted a study in Penn. looking at long-term care funding and came to some interesting conclusions. Pennsylvania taxpayers pay $6.6 billion per year to fund long-term Medicaid spending, 40% of the state’s Medicaid spending. It is unsustainable so they are looking at several options. Rebalance Medicaid In...
The Importance of Talking about End-of-Life Issues
This guest post is contributed by Kitty Holman, who writes on the topics of nursing colleges.æ She welcomes your comments at her email Id: kitty.holman20@gmail.com. At some point, each and every one of us will face the end. Some of us are terrified of it. Others of us are comfortable...
LTC Insurance Paying Claims Now
While many have the notion that long-term care insurance is both unaffordable and also possessed by few people, comes information, be it from the industry trade group, that suggests otherwise. The American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance reports that the nation’s 10 leading long-term care insurance companies paid over $10.8...
New Alzheimer’s Studies May Hold Hope But No Cure
According to USA Today two new studies add to scientific efforts to find more accurate ways to determine whether a person’s brain is on a path toward Alzheimer’s disease. In the first study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), older people without dementia whose blood showed...
States Awarded Grants for Background Checks
The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) has awarded $13 million to six states – Alaska, Conn, Del., Fla., Mo., R.I. – to perform technology-driven background checks for certain long-term care providers. This is a legislatively mandated Federal program, a part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The purpose...
New Bone Testing Method Can Help Treatment of Osteoporosis
æ A new method for identifying bones at high risk of fracture, and for monitoring the effectiveness of new bone-strengthening drugs and techniques, has been developed by scientists at the University of Cambridge. The method uses CT Imaging to accurately measure the thickness of the cortical bone, a key indicator...
Is Cognitive Decline Related to Education Level?
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released information in January regarding cognitive disorders in the elderly. Cognitive disorders are conditions that hinder a person’s cognitive functioning including reasoning and memory. In 2007, the percentage of persons age 85 and older reporting one or more cognitive disorders (18.4 percent) was...
Lotsa Helping Hands Can Do Lotsa Good
In a recent blog I talked about a community service web site called See, Click, Fix. Through their platform, anyone can report and track non-emergency issues anywhere in the world via the internet. In the process this empowers citizens, community groups, media organizations and governments to take care of and...