by Vladimire Herard, M.S. | Mar 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) created a tool to report such patient experiences. Patients can visit CMS’ website at http://www.medicare.gov, to compare Medicare programs and hospital providers,...
by Vladimire Herard, M.S. | Mar 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
Marrying social work with senior long-term and hospital care will require studying the organization and function of medical programs, health care and economic consequences and outpatient follow-up, four aging healthcare experts at a conference on aging. Four panelists...
by Vladimire Herard, M.S. | Mar 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
A White House conference for the first time addressed elder abuse. Greenlee said participants talked about financial exploitation and several government agencies such as her own and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and businesses attended. “Cognitive impairment is at...
by Vladimire Herard, M.S. | Mar 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
Connecting supporters of aging in place with advocacy for the disabled is the wave of the future for senior long-term care, government agency chiefs said in a keynote speech at a conference on aging. It will take all the different segments of the senior long-term care...