Tuesday, 30. June 2009
Assisted Living At Home just launched a country-wide database of retirement homes with extensive ratings and reviews. Finding a quality retirement community is a tough task. There are few services and resources out there dedicated to assisting families t
Tuesday, 30. June 2009
The Pennsylvania Department of Aging and the Long-Term Living Training Institute have heard valuable insight from experts in the aging field and older adults during a two-day conference attended by over 300 professionals and consumers. Pennsylvania has o
Tuesday, 30. June 2009
AmerenUE today announced it is giving $3 million to needy customers to help them get a fresh start in managing their utility payments.
Tuesday, 30. June 2009
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that the administration will rescind all or part of three Medicaid regulations that were previously issued and delay the enforcement of a fourth regulation. Each of these rules, in whole or in part, had been subject to Congressional moratoria set to expire on July 1, 2009.
Tuesday, 30. June 2009
Please help us protect people with neuromuscular diseases from the potentially harmful impact of the recently released House Tri-Committee healthcare reform proposal. The package eliminates the first month purchase option for all power wheelchairs. The current policy allows individuals to purchase power wheelchairs in the first month the product is prescribed, which ensures appropriate access to equipment and lower costs to consumers and the Medicare program.
Tuesday, 30. June 2009
NPR reports on a way to reduce national health care costs: “Getting doctors and hospitals in the parts of the country that spend the most on medical care now to bring that spending more in line with that of lower-spending regions.” Researchers at The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care “have found two key points.
Tuesday, 30. June 2009
The Miami Herald reports that healthcare reform could acutely affect South Florida and provide both benefits and risks. The paper notes that in “few places are healthcare costs more bloated than South Florida, especially Miami.
Tuesday, 30. June 2009
A long-term care program could produce some needed dollars, at least in the short range, CQ Politics reports: “A new insurance program for long-term care that Democrats have included in a Senate health overhaul bill would produce about $58 billion in revenue for the government over the next 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office, helping to offset the cost of the legislation.
Tuesday, 30. June 2009
A new test examining chromosomes in human eggs a few hours after fertilisation can identify those that are capable of forming a healthy baby, a researcher told the 25th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. Dr.
Tuesday, 30. June 2009
Medicare beneficiaries’ activities of daily living (ADL) improved in their first year of the Medicare Part D senior prescription drug plan, according to a ground-breaking study presented at the Annual AcademyHealth meetings in Chicago today.