Resource for information and assistance to patients with Parkinsons disease, their families and caregivers
My personal perspective of The Parkinson’s Recovery Summit By Cheryl Epstein The atmosphere was so upbeat. Everyone was interested. Everyone was hopeful. Everyone was on the same page: Open to experience, to learn, or just to ‘listen’ to words they had never heard from their doctors; concepts, thoughts, ideas about how they could help themselves. These are the brave, the [...]
Deanna W. v. Rosenblut-Appellate Case Creates Receivable Shortfall for Nursing Home Nursing homes often have residents who have been deemed incapacitated through Article 81 guardianship proceedings. As part of the proceedings, the judge typically orders that the payment of certain costs/fees be set aside from the incapacitated person’s funds. The “guardian” of the incapacitated is [...]
Learn the benefits of rehabilitative therapy and corrective vision as well as how vision effects balance, gait and posture in this article presented by Professor Janet Kohtz, B.S, O.D, F.C.O.V.D. About 100 years ago, a very wise optometrist by the name of A. M. Skeffington stated that if: 1) we know where we are in [...]
Dr. William H. Funk, DMD, is a native of Bowling Green, Kentucky and a graduate of Centre College and the University Of Kentucky College Of Dentistry. In the 1990s he completed the full continuum at Florida’s prestigious L.D. Pankey Institute for Advanced Dental Education as well as the Dawson’s Masters Forum. He also taught for [...]
It has been a long and slow journey to develop a curative treatment for Parkinson’s disease, which was discovered nearly 200 years ago. Billions of dollars have been spent in research and discovery by government and private organizations but without any success. One of the main reasons for this colossal failure to develop diagnostics and [...]
To be totally forthright, the title of this article really should be ‘The Whole Person, That Experiences Movement Disorders,’ because whether you’re aware of it or not, Acupuncture treats the whole person; from the structural, to the biochemical, to the nervous, to even the psychological. People experiencing movement disorders need the kind of care that [...]
I pity the type “A” personalities—people who have to be great at everything. They need to learn that life requires balance. Decide to be successful doing what you want to be successful doing, and give all your effort. Decide it’s okay to not be successful at everything. On the other hand, I wanted to be [...]
Long Term Nursing Home Care is NOT covered by Medicare Over 70% of the American population will need some form of Nursing Home Care at some point during their life. The average Nursing Home stay can easily cost $7,500 per month. Add a Respirator in order to breathe and the cost could escalate to $25,000 [...]
Does This Describe Your Situation? Facing a catastrophic illness such as Dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s or a stroke? About to be discharged from the hospital or a nursing home? Already in a nursing home and running out of Medicare/HMO benefit days. You have been told to take your loved one home! Afraid of losing your home [...]
Elder and Special Needs Law Attorneys across the country educate people with disabilities, seniors, and their families on legal Options this May. The National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA), a professional association of attorneys dedicated to improving the quality of legal services provided to older Americans and individuals with special needs, established May as [...]
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