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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
During the next 30 years, the number of Americans over the age of 65 and the proportion of those individuals over 85 are expected to double, impacting the economy, employment, healthcare and social services.
Happy Valentine's Day!
Right at Home is celebrating Valentine's Day by offering a free online care assessment.
Sandwich Generation Survival Tips
Are you a member of the sandwich generation? If you are raising children while caring for your elderly parents, you definitely are. Read the suggestions on how to protect yourself and your family.
The 2012 Conference on Aging
Right at Home Pasadena proud sponsor of the 2012 Conference on Aging
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.
In addition, the proposed rule “will force many seniors and people with...
House Calls Are Making a Comeback
A new federal program called the Independence at Home Demonstration 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
Scientists are discovering anti-aging breakthroughs in the cells of certain animals to help determine how to slow aging in humans.
Drug Reactions in Older Adults
Medications help prevent and treat illness and disease, but increasingly among seniors, certain medications are causing adverse drug reactions.
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