If you think the alphabet soup of care facilities is confusing, let’s talk about payment. Note: Healthcare payments are constantly changing. This article summarizes the status as of September 2018, is geared toward those over 75 and deals with primarily with Medicare. This is not a comprehensive analysis / reporting of private insurance regulation. (Jump to Acute Care … [Read more...]
Acute Care (Hospital), Inpatient Acute Rehabilitation (IRF), Sub-Acute, SNF, LTC, LTAC – The Alphabet Soup of Care Facilities.
What is the difference between all these care facilities? When you are ill, or recovering from being ill, chances are you will spend time in what healthcare terms “A Care Facility”. The highest level of care is found in an Acute Care Hospital. If your health issues are resolved, you are discharged to home with no additional care needed. If you do need additional care, the … [Read more...]
Deaf and Aging in America
“Blindness cuts us off from things. Deafness cuts us off from other people.” Helen Keller Our very sense of self-worth, our identity, is dependent on relationships, and healthy relationships are dependent on being free to share our thoughts and feelings, as well as to listen to those of others. Barriers to communication, therefore, create barriers to relationship. For people … [Read more...]
Caregiving Tips: When Your Elder Is Hard-Of-Hearing
And won’t wear hearing aids “For those of us who are gradually losing our hearing, it is often too much effort to keep up with a conversation, so we self-isolate. I find that most people mumble, speak too rapidly and use words without consonants. If people spoke with clarity, they would not feel like they had to shout – which makes what they are shouting distracting and even … [Read more...]
Don’t underestimate your elder’s ability to grow and change.
But you must be willing to grow and change as well. Can I tell you how proud I am of my mother? At 86, she is still learning and growing. Early one day I got a call from my cousin inviting us to an impromptu birthday celebration that night. The family was meeting at a restaurant right by mom (I live an hour away), so she offered to pick up my mother. I immediately went into … [Read more...]