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Aging in Place

Coverage of products, services and home modifications that help seniors age in place safely and independently.

  • Understanding Universal Design

    An architect’s perspective challenges the traditional view of aging in place
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  • Evaluate Your Place in the Home Modification Market

    A thorough assessment of your position will set you up for success
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  • Stake Your Claim

    Tips for getting Positive Airway Therapy claims paid
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  • Top 10 Technology Devices for Seniors

    An elder care industry veteran offers her picks for must-have aging-in-place technology.
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  • Power Mobility: A Clinician’s View

    The Restore Access to Mobility Partnership (RAMP), a coalition working to ensure that all beneficiaries with medical need have access to mobility products, has been working with clinicians and consumers across the country to achieve this objective. This month, I’d like to take backstage and let one clinician explain her perspective on the current Medicare coverage policy for power wheelchairs. Susan Taylor is a clinician at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, one of the nation’s leading providers of specialized therapy services. She has spent more than 20 years working with consumers with disabilities. How do power wheelchairs help your patients? As an occupational therapist, I have seen wonderful changes after powered mobility has provided someone with independent mobility. I have worked with individuals of all…
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  • The Virtual House Call

    Mention the future of home care, and providers will always bring up the topic of baby boomers. Much is known about who the baby boomers are, but what about the social characteristics of the physicians and other health care professionals who will be caring for this aging demographic? According to telehealth advocates, today’s physicians are more technologically perceptive than ever, and gaining their referrals will require HME providers to be just as hard-wired. And, they say, DME dealers can benefit from the burgeoning trend by providing the equipment necessary to run a telehealth program. These programs not only speak to tech-savvy physicians, but they also keep patients home longer and out of hospitals and emergency rooms while saving home care businesses money on home visits….
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  • The Market Is Out There

    Every seven seconds a baby boomer turns 50. Some 24 million have already reached that half-century milestone. By 2011, the first of the boomers will turn 65, and by 2030 the group will be ages 66 to 84 and make up 20 percent of the U.S. population. It’s probably safe to say that not many of the 77 million baby boomers are particularly happy about aging, to which the popular embrace of rejuvenating plastic surgeries, memory-enhancing herbals and life-affirming drugs like Rogaine and Viagra attests. But the fact is the age thing happens to all of us, and some conditions simply come with the territory. For instance, age 57, which the eldest of the boomers hit in 2003, is the average year for onset of…
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  • Lieber Joins HomeCare’s Editorial Advisory Board

    Atlanta HomeCare has announced that Miriam Lieber has joined its Editorial Advisory Board. Lieber, an operations management consultant and president of Sherman Oaks, Calif.-based Lieber Consulting, has more than 20 years’ experience in HME and has been a columnist for HomeCare for the past year (see page 94). “As a consultant to home medical equipment providers across the country, Lieber will add to the depth of the magazine’s coverage at a time when providers are looking to streamline their business operations,” said Gail Walker, HomeCare editor-in-chief. For breaking news, go to www.homecaremonday.com, the electronic news service of the home medical equipment industry.
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  • It Takes a Team

    Many patients diagnosed with multiple sclerosis will tell you they could quit their jobs and retire to Hawaii if they had a dime for every time they heard, “but you don’t look sick.” During March, national MS Education and Awareness Month, the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation (MSF) is launching a campaign called “It Takes a Team to Tackle MS” to raise public awareness about this increasingly visible disease, which affects approximately 2.5 million people worldwide. The MSF also is educating MS patients themselves about the medical products that can ease their symptoms. The campaign includes several educational initiatives, product promotions and grant giveaways the foundation hopes will attract the attention of HME providers. MS is an autoimmune disease that is not contagious or fatal, but its…
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  • Tracking the Telemonitoring Trend

    I recently attended the Remote Telemonitoring and Home Telehealth Forum sponsored by the American Telemedicine Association. There was “standing room only.” I am not sure if our end of the health care industry has yet grasped the importance of telemedicine and how it can dramatically affect the way health care services will be provided and monitored in the future. Telemedicine is best described as the ability to monitor a patient using the latest tools available electronically. This means that pertinent information can be available to medical practitioners without the patient’s being physically present — and without sending a person to obtain the patient’s data. The result is two-fold: reduced costs and improved care. What I learned at the ATA conference was the “how” of telemedicine….
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  • The Second Line

    How lucky you are. Since this is my first column as HomeCare’s editor-in-chief, I was going to talk about some serious industry issues. I could have chosen the state budget crisis, inherent reasonableness or competitive bidding, among many. But the weather is glorious, spring fever has hit, and I’ve decided to tell you instead about a recent family celebration in New Orleans. More than 200 relatives and friends gathered there in March for a wedding, the first for any of our family’s grandchildren. We sat at the Cafe Du Monde, where you can spend hours people-watching and sipping café au lait. We rode the Garden District streetcar, explored the French Quarter’s back alleys and browsed the shops. And of course, we ate, sampled those famous…
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  • Mixed Blessing

    Since 1981, when obstructive sleep apnea was shown to be treated successfully by an electromechanical device, there has been an increasing concentration of medical research on this disorder and its consequences. The combination of all the occurrences of sleep disordered breathing presents a potential market of 20 million Americans, growing at a rate of 20 percent per year. Yet the market remains untapped, for the most part. Adverse consequences from OSA manifest in a variety of ways, including sleep deprivation, which causes daytime fatigue and accidents, and activation of the sympathetic nervous system, which leads to hypertension. And, certain medical conditions can lead to OSA. Doctors believe that as many as 90 percent of morbidly obese individuals suffer from OSA. Of course they would, because,…
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