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Physical Therapy Doesn’t Need to End Because You Will Not Get Better
In the past, patients receiving skilled care such as physical therapy in nursing facilities, outpatient centers, home health, or rehabilitation hospitals were treated to a point where they hit a plateau. At this point, if a provider deemed the patient no longer had...
How to Handle Surprise Medical Bills
Part of what makes the American healthcare system so complex is the way in which services are billed and paid for. You may have health insurance, do all of your homework, select physicians and other providers who are in-network with your insurance company, and still...
When – and How – to Choose Companion Care
After recovering from an illness, or after hospitalization, or simply as a result of general age-related decline, it may be necessary for seniors to have a little bit of help in order to safely remain living at home. The situation may be temporary, until a full...
A Spoonful of Knowledge Helps the Medicine Go Down
The average senior takes five prescription medications per day and fills between 9 – 13 prescriptions each year. That is a startling number of pill bottles lining the typical seniors’ counter, each one representing an opportunity for a mistake to be made. Older...
Stay on your feet this fall
Medical alarm and protection company LifeCall made the catch phrase “I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up” part of our popular culture and the punchline of many jokes. But the reality is that falls by seniors that result in injury are nothing to laugh at. Many occupants of...
Disaster Planning for Those with Special Needs
News reports filled with heartbreaking images of the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Dorian on the Bahamas are still fresh in many of our minds. While Long Island is frequently spared from the damage of such severe storms, we still remain vulnerable to natural and...