The high cost of caring for an aging relative
Almost 30 percent of Americans provide care for someone who is ill, disabled or aged according to the Family Caregiver Alliance.
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Baby Boomers and the growing care gap
Who will take care of you if you need care as you age? If you are like most Americans, you expect your family to step up and provide care. (Sixty-eight percent of Americans believe that they will be able to rely on their families to meet their long term care needs.)
5 recommendations for deciding treatment for older adults with chronic diseases
Older adult are especially challenging to treat medically as most Americans live a decade or more at the end of their lives with at least one serious medical condition.
Is it time to fire your doctor?
If you are over 70 and have diabetes you’re not alone. As many as one in five individuals over the age of 65 have Type 2 diabetes but when it comes to treating the disease for those individuals, doctors rely on a one-size fits all approach that aggressively reduces blood glucose levels but does little to take other needs into account.
Planning for disability so it doesn't ruin your retirement plans
Many Americans plan to keep working as long as possible or plan not to retire at all but something happens on the way to achieving that goal.
James Gandolfini’s Killer has powerful accomplices: Misinformation and the status quo
This is a guest blog from Dr. Robert Emerick, the Founder, President and Interventional Cardiologist at Choice Cardiovascular, a direct practice (also called concierge medicine or boutique medicine). Dr. Emerick’s website can be found at http://www.choicecardiovascular.com/.
James Gandolfini, well known to many of us as the likeable, yet brutal and sociopathic, family man, modern-day don of the HBO drama, The Sopranos, collapsed suddenly last Wednesday night in his Rome hotel bathroom.
Is a direct pay physician in your future?
A Portland Maine family physician quit accepting all forms of health insurance in April of this year. “Now I work for patients. I don’t work for the government and I don’t work for insurance companies. To be honest, if more people did this we’d see the price of healthcare go down, not up,” said Dr. Michael Ciampi in an article in the Bangor Daily News.
Is your doctor engaged in your health
Is your doctor engaged in your health?
Know your risks for heart disease
It’s February and that means this month we care about matters of the heart. Of course we care all the other months as well but one of the most startling facts to me is that women are more prone to missing the warning signs of heart disease than men.
Low cost concierge medicine
Rajiv Nagaich talks about Concierge medicine a lot on his Saturday morning radio program. Mostly he talks about how people can be much more proactive about an individual’s health by hiring a doctor that isn’t controlled by insurance companies. Concierge doctors don’t wait until you have a heart attack or stroke before ordering tests. They’re available … Read more
