Archive for April 2010
- Be on the look out for some amazing new enhancements to our site including “Caregiver Community Blogs” and “Personal Care Records.” With Community blogs, you as a caregiver will be able to create a website devoted to updating family members and friends about health challenges to your patients. Personal Care Records allow you to track [...]
- The year of the ‘care’. As one VC executive, Andy Donner of Physic Ventures, noted recently, this is the year of the ‘care’. There seems to be a growing list of vendors who are trying to offer some sort of ‘keep in touch’ product that connects an older person with family members who may live [...]
- As times change and people’s interests change, it is important to be flexible and creative with activities in senior living communities or in senior centers. Here are a few ways to get “outside the box” with your approach. 1. Ensure seniors have a chance to give back to the community. They have been caring for others their [...]
- The HSA is based on a high deducible insurance plan which allows the employee to take on a higher level of responsibility and risk for medical expenses than a traditional insurance policy. Employees that are quick to go to the doctors office because of low copays (because visits only cost $10) are less apt to go when they experience less serious conditions such as the sniffles. You think twice about paying when you have to pay the full $75 that the insurance company doesn’t make up.
- My company is rolling out a Health Savings Account program for all of its employees. What is a health savings account and why is it beneficial for me?
- I’m a busy working mom whose own mother is getting older - in fact, she just moved in with us. I use my iPhone all the time and have found a ton of apps that make my hectic life easier...what about some apps that can make it easier for me to care for my mom? – Cynthia, 45
