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How to Choose the Best Elder Care Facility for Your Loved Ones: 5 Expert Tips
Finding the best elder care facility for your loved ones can be a challenging task. Whether you’re exploring in-home senior care, assisted living, or skilled nursing facilities, it’s important to understand your options. In this guide, we’ll share 5 essential tips to help you navigate the process of selecting the best elder care facility, ensuring…
Read MoreThe Loneliness Epidemic: Build Connections for Better Health
Loneliness: A Growing Health Crisis As Valentine’s Day approaches—a holiday centered on love and connection—it’s important to recognize a growing public health crisis: loneliness. While the day often highlights romantic relationships, nearly half of U.S. adults experience measurable levels of loneliness, according to a 2023 Surgeon General’s advisory, “Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation.” The…
Read More5 Expert Tips for Managing Your Elderly Parent’s Healthcare
Your parents raised you. They changed your diapers, loved you, and supported you when you tried everything from soccer to dance. As an adult child, you want to take care of your elderly parent and make sure they have the best life possible. Securing quality healthcare for your elderly parent can be one of the…
Read MoreGet to know our advocates: Spotlight on Stephen Young, MD
After 35 years as a physician practicing in ICUs, hospitals, and other settings, Stephen Young hung up his white coat to become a patient advocate.
Read MoreGet to know our advocates: Spotlight on Michael Voss
Michael Voss, MD, was a family medicine doctor who turned to patient advocacy. Now, he helps patients and families navigate medical care.
Read MoreIs Your Doctor Listening? How to Get the Healthcare Answers You Need
It can be hard to get healthcare answers, especially when you don’t feel heard. Having an advocate by your side can make all the difference.
Read MoreHow To Handle Unwelcome, Overly Familiar Communication
Not everyone minds being called ‘Sweetie’ or ‘Honey’. But if it feels like overly familiar communication to you, there are ways to ask for the respect you deserve.
Read MoreSolo Aging: How to Get the Best Healthcare
Are You Solo Aging? You’re Not Alone. If you’re someone growing older without a spouse, children, or close family nearby, you’re part of a trend known as solo aging. You might have quietly wondered: What will happen if I get sick? Who will speak for me if I can’t? Who can help you decide when…
Read MoreHow To Prepare For A Hospitalization: A Checklist
Heading into the hospital can be scary. But preparation is key. Use this checklist to prepare for a hospitalization.
Read MorePreventing a Deadly Outcome from a Visit to the Doctor
Today I’m sharing an experience with you in hopes of preventing something we do but don’t think about; something which can be dangerous. At a recent doctor appointment, I found two people in the waiting room just hacking away, coughing up a storm, and very likely infecting others. They were together, and there for only…
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