Right at Home Website Nominated for "Best of the Web"
Right at Home of Northwest Phoenix is pleased to announce that SeniorHomes.com has nominated Right at Home (.net) as one of their Best of the Web for 2012!
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Improve Your Health Literacy
Approximately 46 percent of adults are health illiterate, meaning they find it difficult to read, comprehend and use health information. Patients' misunderstanding of health information and treatment decisions is estimated to cost the U.S. $73 billion.
U.S. Faces the Growing Challenges of an Aging Population
Although the number of elderly individuals needing healthcare will continue to increase—inflating its cost—companies like Right at Home in Glendale, AZ can lower healthcare costs by providing care in the home, rather than a costlier long-term care facility, all the while maintaining the senior’s independence.
Happy Valentine's Day!
Right at Home is celebrating Valentine's Day by offering a free online care assessment.
Sandwich Generation Survival Tips
If you are raising children while caring for your elderly parents in Glendale, AZ, then you definitely are. You probably feel caught in the middle; hence, the name “sandwich.”
Home Health Agencies Battle Against Worker Overtime Proposal
A survey by the home health care industry suggests that under an Obama administration proposal, sick people who need in-home care will turn to under-the-table providers and legal workers’ overtime pay will be cut.
House Calls Are Making a Comeback
A new federal program called the Independence at Home Demonstration, created by the Affordable Care Act, will test the effectiveness of providing healthcare to thousands of chronically ill Medicare patients in their own homes, allowing them to remain there instead of potentially entering long-term care facilities.
Slowing the Ravages of Age in Glendale, AZ
With aging, senescent cells build up in the body and produce harmful chemicals, which can lead to tissue inflammation and underlying ills such as diabetes, dementia and hardening of the arteries. Only 5 percent or less of an older adult’s total cells are senescent, but these inactive cells can cause extensive problems.
Drug Reactions in Older Adults
Medications help prevent and treat illness and disease, but increasingly among seniors in Glendale, AZ and around the nation, certain medications are causing adverse drug reactions.
Beating More Than Winter Blues in Glendale, AZ
Common SAD symptoms include loss of energy, appetite changes, social withdrawal, weight changes, sluggish movement, irritability, increased sleep and hopelessness
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