Latest Blog Posts
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As stated in the 2007 report “Caregiving in America”, issued by the International Longevity Center - US and the Schmieding Center, the United States is in the midst of a significant and growing caregiving crisis. About 1.4 million older Americans live in nursing homes, nearly 6 million receive care at home, and significant numbers go [...]
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“Carol, I’m so sorry about your dad,” people told me after he died. “I’m sure you miss him.” They were right. I missed him terribly. But, my dad had, effectively, died on an operating table ten years before. The man we just buried was my dad, yet not really. The pain – the grief – [...]
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Does your site contain one or more of the following?
User generated and/or user influenced content
Applications that use the Web (versus the desktop) as a health platform
Leveraging of popular trends in Health Information Technology, including blogging, social tagging, wikis, crowdsourced medical solutions, personal health records, and peer-to-peer sharing
Inclusion of emerging web technologies like RSS, AJAX, APIs [...]
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Listen closely — Marvin Minsky’s arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed with subtlety: wit, wisdom and just an ounce of wily, is-he-joking? advice.
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The art of caregiving often has guilt as its constant companion. At Leeza’s Place we give caregivers permission to feel whatever they are experiencing and then we give them a strategy, an approach, a shoulder to cry on, a heart to lean on and the faith that they will make it through. We know that [...]
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Crowdsourced online health care solutions have become increasingly popular within the last year. One notable contributor in this space is Northern California-based Curetogether. Alexandra Carmichael, Curetogether’s Cofounder, had this to say about crowdsourcing:
“I define crowdsourcing as people coming together to collaboratively solve problems. When it comes to health, crowdsourcing has the potential to have a [...]
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Introduction
I used to play Bluegrass music. I also used to play Klezmer music, Swing music, Cajun music, Folk music, Western Swing music and Dixieland music, but Bluegrass music was what got me started. On June 5th, 1976, I bought a bass, and by the weekend I had played several gigs, and I had blisters on [...]
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It has often been years since anyone paid attention to your elder’s physical appearance, and a little bit of attention goes a long way. Bring her to the hairdresser. Give her a regular pedicure and manicure. If it’s in the budget, a facial is a real treat. Make sure she has clothing that’s appropriate for [...]
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I wish I had known what a marathon this is…battling Alzheimer’s disease is an endurance race, the likes of which I could have never imagined. Although people tried to tell me, I suppose I couldn’t quite appreciate at the time how valuable everyday is.
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My first experience with caregiving came at a relatively young age, 25. The man I loved was diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
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For years, medical alert systems have provided family caregivers with the confidence to function away from home without worrying about the safety of their loved ones. With the rapid progress in medical alert technology, these services are no incredibly quick and simple to use.
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Porter and Teisberg collaborated on a book in 2006 named Redefining Healthcare which is focused on two of my favorite topics Healthcare and Competitive Strategy. Michael Porter, the man responsible for so many frameworks in competitive strategy; the five forces, value chain, cost advantage, differentiation has brought that competitive strategy analysis to healthcare. His underlying [...]
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Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding — she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how [...]
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For eleven years I pleaded with my elderly father to allow a caregiver to
help him with my ailing mother, but after 55 years of loving each other–he
adamantly insisted on taking care of her himself. Every caregiver I hired to
help him sighed in exasperation, “Jacqueline, I just can’t work with your
father–his temper is impossible to handle. [...]
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Pray for me I was once like you
Be kind and loving to me that’s how I would have treated you
Remember I was once someone’s parent or spouse
I had a life and a dream for the future
Speak to me; I can hear you even if I don’t
understand what you are saying
Speak to me of things in [...]
