'Til Death Do Us Part: The COVID-19 Struggle to Stay Together
The COVID-19 virus is erupting through communities in the United States and a serious conflict is emerging as patients are increasingly caught in the crossfire between the competing interests of hospitals and nursing homes. All the patient and his...
Healthcare Equity
Promoting Heathcare Equity As a patient advocate, it is essential to know what factors can impede your health. It is the job of your patient advocate to provide you with the support and education to improve your health and empower you to make...
You can increase socialization through platforms such as FaceTime, Zoom, Skype.
Social isolation, loneliness, and anxiety Feeling lonely and anxious during the COVID-19 pandemic has become more prevalent due to the social distancing and self-quarantining restrictions. Uncertainty of the coronavirus outcomes causes anxiety...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid *&@?
Guest Blog: Monahan Law Group, LLC Chicago, Illinois As the nation grapples with a public health response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Telehealth has emerged as one of the most prominent “tools in the toolbox” to ensure access to care for individuals...
Most Covid patients are sedated with medications and supported by a ventilator for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
Each time a friend or family member asks how I am, I tend to tell them I am okay, hanging in there, doing my best. While these are all true, I don’t often tell them that some days I am simply not okay. How about you? Can you relate? People want to...
Perspectives From an ICU Nurse: Sometimes I am Not Okay
This blog was originally published in December 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Each time a friend or family member asks how I am, I tend to tell them I am okay, hanging in there, doing my best. While these are all true, I don’t...
Health Insurance — What Exactly Am I Buying?
Many complain about their inadequate health insurance coverage. Often, the cause is a lack of understanding regarding the true costs of coverage, as well as the inherent administrative barriers that exist. The goal, always, is to get educated...
COVID-19 Advice: What To Tell Clients
In previous newsletters, I’ve related personal experiences with my older adult parents as a means of sharing my views on how best to manage a variety of healthcare obstacles and situations. The COVID-19 Pandemic is no exception. One of the many...
Planning For Hospitalization During COVID-19
Planning for hospitalization is something we do continuously, especially with our most vulnerable clients — those that are older, living without family members close by, or living with multiple, chronic conditions and/or alone. But COVID-19 has...
Addressing Mental Health of Seniors During Lockdown
Guest Blog by: Bunni Dybnis, MA, LMFT, CMC COVID-19 has dramatically changed our world. The news, warnings, restrictions, instructions, double messages, shortages, politics, financial implications are never-ending. Most are resilient. After the...
Delays Persist For Non-COVID-19 Patients
In the United States the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting almost every state as there are shelter in place orders by the governors and restrictions are being placed on whether patients can get in to see their providers. As of Monday, April 27, we...
The Intervention: What Are We Willing to Invest for the Greater Good?
When I started writing about healthcare, one of my first newsletters addressed “ going upstream ." One of the up-streamers I read about was Dr. Jeffrey Brenner in Camden, New Jersey. He developed a model of care, almost 20 years ago, that featured...
Treatment COVID-19
COVID-19 Treatment Today’s topic will focus on treatment options for COVID-19. As people are anxious to return to work and resume pre-COVID-19 socialization, scientists are working to find effective treatments. Science takes time, and there are...
Social Isolation, loneliness and anxiety during COVID-19 pandemic
Social isolation, loneliness, and anxiety Feeling lonely and anxious during the COVID-19 pandemic has become more prevalent due to the social distancing and self-quarantining restrictions. Uncertainty of the coronavirus outcomes causes anxiety...
Check your MPA skills......
Many seniors have what is called a Medicare Advantage Plan MA (most have Prescription Drug plans included MAPD) but never really take full advantage of all the benefits of the plan. Especially now during this COVID-19, shelter in place, isolation...