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Home Health

News and guidance for home health agencies, covering clinical care, staffing, regulation and agency operations.

  • Must-See TV

    Seen any good television shows lately? If you can look past the current spate of quasi-reality shows that seem to dominate the small screen, you may be surprised at what you’ll find — especially as it relates to your customers. The “reality” for the people you serve day in and day out is the need for some type of medical equipment. In recent years, your customers’ peers have been showing up frequently on well respected, long-running TV programs — and not just to keep the laugh track rolling. On NBC’s “Ed,” two characters have physical disabilities. “Eli” is a paraplegic bowling alley manager, and “Mark” is an obese high school student. An actor who is disabled portrays each character. Darryl “Chill” Mitchell, who plays Eli,…
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  • Study: Players Prone to Sleep Apnea

    London, Ontario, Canada Although the National Football League’s season has ended, sleep may not come easily for some weary players, according to a recent report from researchers at the University of Western Ontario. Experts typically associate sleep apnea with middle-aged men, but the disorder may be present among young, physically fit men, too, said Charles George, lead author of an article that appeared last month in The New England Journal of Medicine. George based this conclusion on a study of more than 300 professional football players from eight NFL teams. Compared to men of similar size and age, these football players were nearly five times more likely to have sleep apnea. Fourteen percent of the study’s participants experienced sleep-disordered breathing, and that percentage jumped to…
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  • Don’t Worry, It’s Cool

    When I broke my neck in an automobile accident, I quickly realized that being separated from the physical world changed the way many people communicated with me. Most people are apprehensive at the thought of offending disabled people by acting inappropriately. What do I do? What do I say? Maybe I should just ignore them… Take my advice: Treat people, with or without a disability, with a little courtesy, respect and some common sense. To follow are a few examples: I am not a “shut-in.” Nor am I wheelchair-bound or confined to a wheelchair. I simply am a wheelchair user, and I do get out. The word “handicap” derives from an old English term meaning “cap in hand,” which signifies a beggar. No one wants…
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