12 Medication Management Tips That May Save Your Life

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The importance of medication management cannot be overstated, especially when it comes to caring for the elderly, who often take multiple medications simultaneously to treat different conditions and symptoms. In official terminology, this is called polypharmacy. While we’ve quickly become used to the idea of our aging parents taking more and more vitamins and pills each day, polypharmacy has a number of potential health hazards, including overmedication and dangerous drug interactions.Read More »12 Medication Management Tips That May Save Your Life

Care Coordination

Care-coordinationCare coordination involves deliberately organizing patient care activities and sharing information among all of the participants concerned with a patient’s care to achieve safer and more effective care. This means that the patient’s needs and preferences are known ahead of time and communicated at the right time to the right people, and that this information is used to provide safe, appropriate, and effective care to the patient.

Care coordination in the primary care practice involves deliberately organizing patient care activities and sharing information among all of the participants concerned with a patient’s care to achieve safer and more effective care.Read More »Care Coordination

Caregiverlist® Announces Wisconsin Nursing Home Rating and Cost Index for May 2015

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CGListWisconsin seniors needing a long-term stay in a nursing home in their state will pay roughly $76,300 a year, the average annual cost based on the daily private and semi-private rates of 427 nursing homes in Wisconsin. Medicare does not pay for long-term care, while Medicaid, for low-income seniors does pay for an ongoing stay in a nursing home. Read More »Caregiverlist® Announces Wisconsin Nursing Home Rating and Cost Index for May 2015

Put Your Wallet Away: 13 Things Senior Citizens May Be Able to Get for Free

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I keep telling myself that I’ve simply rejected the idea of growing older. Unfortunately, my body never seems to follow suit!

Source: AARP via Facebook.Like it or not, we’re all growing older — and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we’re growing older than ever before. Its latest data from 2013 shows that Americans live an average of 78.8 years, up from a life expectancy of about 70 back in 1963. That’s a substantial improvement in just 50 years.

As we live longer, we get to spend more time with family and friends and experience more of what life has to offer. However, we’re also likely to need more money to see us through retirement than we had planned for. Therefore as we age, it’s important that we save money in order to make our nest egg last as long as possible.

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Beware of the “Grandparents Scam”

Grandparents ScamParents across the country will spend the next month fretting for the safety of their children as spring break ensues and college students are left to their own devices in Daytona Beach, South Padre and Cancun. Elsewhere, police warn of those looking to prey on families’ worst fears with scams and fraud.

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection has put out a notice to families of college students warning of what is commonly known as the “grandparents scam.”

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