How Medicare Covers In-Home Care
Dear Savvy Senior,
How does Medicare cover home health care? Because of my illness, my doctor suggested I get home health care, but I want to find out how it's covered before I proceed.
-- Need Some Help
Dear Need,
Medicare covers a wide variety of intermittent in-home health care services (usually up to 28 hours per week) to beneficiaries if you meet their specific requirements. Here's how it works.
In order for you to secure coverage for home health care, Medicare first requires that you be homebound. This means that it must be extremely difficult for you to leave your home, and you need help from a device (like a ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Necklace and smartphone app developed at UCLA can help people track food intake
A sophisticated necklace developed by researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science can monitor food and drink intake, which could help wearers track and improve their dietary habits.
The inventors of the WearSens device say it could help battle obesity, heart disease, diabetes and other problems related to nutrition.
Majid Sarrafzadeh, a distinguished professor of computer science and co-director of UCLA’s Wireless Health Institute, led a team that created the device and an algorithm that translates data from the necklace, and tested it on 30 people who ate a variety of foods.
The ...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - March 12, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Does a Primary Language Impairment Affect Both Languages in a Bilingual Child?
Discussion
Internationally, bilingualism is the rule. Even in the US which many have considered the holdout for monolingualism, bilingualism is increasing with more than 18% of people (>5 years) speaking 2 languages and it is expected that by 2030 more than 40% of children will learn English as their second language (L2).
Children learn two or more languages in different contexts. A child may learn two language with parents speaking two different languages at home since birth, may have one language spoken at home and another in the community (such as a daycare setting) since birth, or may learn one at home since birth...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - March 9, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
See The Amazing Moment When A Deaf Person Hears For The First Time
Imagine hearing the sound of your own voice, or the voice of a loved one, for the very first time. For those of us who have always been able to hear, that's hard to do.
But have a look at this video montage showing hearing-impaired people hearing for the first time (above). When you see the profound joy that washes over their faces, you'll never take your own hearing for granted again.
The videos feature people trying out their new cochlear implants, which are small, surgically implanted electronic devices that pick up and process sounds, and then deliver them straight to the brain.
According to the American Speech-Lan...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - February 10, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
See The Amazing Moment When A Deaf Person Hears For The First Time
Imagine hearing the sound of your own voice, or the voice of a loved one, for the very first time. For those of us who have always been able to hear, that's hard to do.
But have a look at this video montage showing hearing-impaired people hearing for the first time (above). When you see the profound joy that washes over their faces, you'll never take your own hearing for granted again.
The videos feature people trying out their new cochlear implants, which are small, surgically implanted electronic devices that pick up and process sounds, and then deliver them straight to the brain.
According to the American Speech-Lan...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 10, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Over 50% of Patients on Ventilators Have Ability to Communicate
The study found that 53.9 percent of the 2,671 mechanically ventilated patients screened met basic communication criteria and could potentially benefit from the use of assistive communication tools and speech language consultation. These tools could be as simple as a notepad and pen that would allow a patient to write requests and questions. (Source: Disabled World)
Source: Disabled World - January 27, 2015 Category: Disability Tags: Rehabilitation and Hospitals Source Type: news
Heritage Valley Health System, Duquesne form academic partnership
Heritage Valley Health System has signed a student affiliation agreement with Duquesne University schools of health sciences and pharmacy, allowing Duquesne students to use the system's two hospitals as campuses.
The agreement will allow Duquesne students to gain pharmacy experience at Heritage Valley Beaver and Sewickley hospitals, including dispensing medications and pharmacy management. Students studying physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech language pathology will be placed at inpatient… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines - December 10, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Kris B. Mamula Source Type: news
Draft Recommendation on Screening Children for Speech, Language Problems Inconclusive
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has posted a draft recommendation statement that says current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of routine screening for speech/language delay and disorders in children 5 or younger. (Source: AAFP News)
Source: AAFP News - December 2, 2014 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Evidence Lacking on Screening Children for Speech, Language Problems
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has posted a draft recommendation statement that says current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of routine screening for speech/language delay and disorders in children 5 or younger. (Source: AAFP News)
Source: AAFP News - December 2, 2014 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
To heal the human instrument
When Erik Laurence transferred in 2009 to Shanghai, China, as vice president of a software company, he thought his biggest challenge would be improving his Mandarin-language skills and learning the nuances of the Chinese business scene. But his vocal cords, not the foreign nation, turned out to be his undoing.
Laurence, who was in his mid-40s at the time, had struggled for about 20 years with a mild case of spasmodic dysphonia (SD), intermittently losing his voice at odd times. It’s a neurological disorder that involves spasms of the vocal cords, which cause the voice to break up or have a strained or strangled quality...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - November 21, 2014 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
“I’m Just In the Band”
Discussion
Instrumental music, either as an avocation or profession, provides great pleasure for those performing and listening. Unfortunately it can also cause health problems. Many of the problems are musculoskeletal or neurological in etiology due to overuse and the musician may experience pain. Prelude to pain can include stiffness or tingling or other skin sensations. Musicians may experience weakness, loss of function, control (accuracy) and ability (speed) as well as problems with tone.
“The most prevent problems involve overuse of muscles resulting from repetitive movements of playing, often in combination ...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - November 17, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Honest Speech
What does it mean to speak for yourself?read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - November 13, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Katherine Preston Tags: Gender Happiness Relationships Self-Help honesty identity speech therapy voice Source Type: news
Tell Congress to Get Back to Work on IDEA Funding
Contact your Members Today! (Source: ASHA Action Alerts)
Source: ASHA Action Alerts - October 28, 2014 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Source Type: news
Remembering one of Boston Children’s earliest liver transplants
When Michael “Mick” Devlin was born in 1987, his parents were sure of two things: They loved him, and they would cherish every minute they had together because no one knew how many they had left.
Mick was born with ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) deficiency, a genetic disorder that disrupts the liver’s ability to break down protein and eventually leads to a toxic build up of ammonia in the blood. It’s a very serious condition, and when Mick was born there weren’t many sustainable treatment options for OTC deficiency. Many children with the disease died.
Needless to say, when Mick’s pare...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - October 6, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tripp Underwood Tags: All posts Liver transplant our patients' stories Pediatric Transplant Center (PTC) Source Type: news
Babies learn words differently as they age, researcher finds
Researcher has found that toddlers learn words differently as they age, and a limit exists as to how many words they can learn each day. These findings could help parents enhance their children's vocabularies and assist speech-language professionals in developing and refining interventions to help children with language delays. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - September 17, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
