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Digital Health: Healthcare via Smartphones {Infographic}
What is digital health? Greatist and Rock Health explains here. The Future of Health is Your Smartphone infographic by greatist.
READ MORE »Healthcare Extender Spotlight: Geriatric Care Managers
Geriatric care management provides a solution and becoming a resource for those who simply do not have the time to provide for all the care management themselves. This is where healthcare extenders called geriatric care managers (GCM) can play a huge role. The demand for professional GCMs is increasing. What is a GCM? GCMs are [...]
READ MORE »Guest Post: Patient Navigation: What does it mean for caregivers and patients?
If you are a caregiver to someone with chronic illness, or a patient with chronic illness, you may have heard the term patient navigator. While the title has not been used much until recent years, the patient navigator is actually a role that was created by Dr. Harold P. Freeman more than 20 years ago. The [...]
READ MORE »Pinterest for Health, Caregiving & Medication Literacy Too…
In October 2012, Digihealth pulse published a study highlighting the first-of-its-kind study focusing showing the role of Pinterest play in health. At CareNovateMag, we use Pinterest to highlight boards with focus on healthcare social media, medication literacy, caregiving article & insights. CareNovateMag Pinterest boards will pin pictorial board of caregiving resource that provides caregivers, [...]
READ MORE »2013 Alzheimer’s Disease Data: Cost, Caregiving Impact & Support
According to the recently published, Alzheimer’s Association, 2013 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures, Alzheimer’s & Dementia, Volume 9, Issue 2 Facts Alzheimer’s disease is the 6th leading cause of death in the US Alzheimer’s disease is also the only leading cause of death without a way to prevent, cure or even slow its progression. 1 [...]
READ MORE »Marketing Partner Event: What’s Next Boomer Business Summit
CareNovateMag is proud to be a marketing partner of the 2013 What’s Next Boomer Business Summit, which is an annual event that brings together the country’s top businesses and organizations that are focused on the boomer marketplace. The focus of the annual event is to foster a cutting-edge community to explore and share products and [...]
READ MORE »CareNovator Spotlight: AboutOne, Caregiving Organizer That Pays
Working moms, sandwich generation families, caregivers, baby boomers – if you are one of the millions in the US who provide support to an adult family member, often an aging parent, work and/or care for growing children, our bet is that you are feeling overwhelmed by the amount of care and time caregiving requires. According [...]
READ MORE »Visual Overview of Essential Vitamins & Minerals
Do I need a daily vitamin? What are minrerals? Vitamins are essential organic substances (made by plants or animals) while minerals are inorganic elements that come from the earth. As human beings, we absorb vitamins and minerals from the food and plants we eat and need them to grow and develop adequate health functioning. Question: Do [...]
READ MORE »CareNovator Spotlight: Free Online Community, Lotsa Helping Hands
In the US, more than 65 million people serve as caregivers for aging loved ones and those with chronic disease or disability. Amazingly, 66 percent of all caregivers are women who spend on average 20 hours a week caring for an older or ill loved one. If you are sandwiched in care, then you are [...]
READ MORE »#Hchlitss Chat on Health Literacy, Caregivers & Self Efficacy on Medication Adherence
I was honored to serve as a guest on the popular Health Communication, Health Literacy, & Social Science (#hchlitss) chat on Twitter, discussing topics from caregiving, health literacy to medication compliance and literacy. I was representing my role as caregiver, a clinical pharmacist and the co-founder of CareNovateMag.com. The #hchlitss Chats is a once a [...]
READ MORE »Quick Facts on Long-Term Care Insurance {Data & Infographic}
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, by the year 2020, some 12 million older Americans are expected to need long-term care. People age 65 face at least a 40 percent lifetime risk of entering a nursing home sometime during their lifetime. About 10 percent will stay there five years or longer [...]
READ MORE »Caregivers & Taxes!
Tax time is almost here, April 15th to be exact. As more adults and boomers take on caregiving responsibilities for their aging relatives, it’s important to plan ahead. Below, we share some tax tips published recently by IRS, AARP & Bankrate that could help save family caregivers some money, stress and time. As always, always [...]
READ MORE »#Carerx Interview: Needymeds + CareNovateMag.com Partnership = Medication Savings & Help
FACTS: There are over 40 million Americans who don’t have health insurance Increasing healthcare costs and concerns about quality are overwhelming patients, providers and policymakers. In 2010, prescription cost – $234.1 billion in This is nearly six times the $40.3 billion spent in 1990. There are resources available! Elizabeth Messenger from NeedyMeds.org, a national nonprofit, [...]
READ MORE »Health Benefits of Sleep
How much zzzzzz do you get in a 24 hour period? According to the National Institutes of Health estimates that sleep-related problems affect 50 to 70 million Americans of all ages and socioeconomic classes. How much sleep we need varies between people but generally changes as we age. The National Sleep Foundation suggests that school-age [...]
READ MORE »Drug Interaction Review & Tools for Caregivers
In this edition of CareNovateMag medication management tips and strategies for caregivers, we offer a list of available resources: drug interactions. Understanding drug interactions and how they may make your drug less effective cause unexpected side effects, or increase the action of a particular drug is very important part of managing medications for your loved ones. Some [...]
READ MORE »Scared To Talk Advance Directives, End Of Life Planning? Resources Available
What is advanced directives? Do you have one? I am young, do I need one yet? Before going any further, take a look at the glaring statistics. The 2012 Survey of Californians by the California HealthCare Foundation 60% of people say that making sure their family is not burdened by tough decisions is “extremely important” [...]
READ MORE »6 Caregiving Promises Every Caregivers Must Make Now
“Another fresh new year is here. Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, To love and laugh and give! This bright New Year is given me. To live each day with zest. To daily grow and try to be. My highest and my best! I have the opportunity. Once more to right [...]
READ MORE »Health Literacy – Part Of Our Daily Lives
Guest Contributor: Laura C. Wilson, MEd Senior Vice President, Health Education An earlier view Years ago, when I thought about health literacy, I pictured someone reading an educational brochure to learn more about her condition and treatment. I wanted to make sure that brochure provided the key information—not too much, not too little—in a clear and [...]
READ MORE »Emotional + Financial Cost of Caregiving
According to the AARP, 43.5 million caregivers, unpaid and informal caregivers contributed $450 billion worth of assistance to adults 50 years and up in 2009. A report by Indiana University revealed that nearly 10 million adult children are caring for older parents in America provided an estimated $375 billion dollars per year. Thanks to our [...]
READ MORE »10 Things about Medicare Policy Change & Jimmo Settlement Agreement
GOOD NEWS for Medicare beneficiaries with long-term, debilitating conditions and those who need rehabilitation services. These beneficiaries for decades have been denied necessary care based on the “Improvement Standard”. This means denials for vital care to thousands of people on the grounds that their condition was stable, chronic, not improving, or that the necessary services [...]
READ MORE »Why We Need to Wash Our Hands?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the facts are ~2 million hospital patients get infections each year. That’s about 1 infection for every 20 patients. Infections that patients get in the hospital can be life-threatening and hard to treat. In a recent survey conducted by KRC Research for the global hygiene company, Americans [...]
READ MORE »Your Medicine Cabinet: 3 R’s of Safe Medication Use
Here are the facts from Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Adverse drug events (ADEs) are a serious public health problem. It is estimated that: 82% of American adults take at least one medication and 29% take five or more [1]; 700,000 emergency department visits and 120,000 hospitalizations are due to ADEs annually [2]; [...]
READ MORE »3 Free Resources to Keep You “Fiscally” Fit
QUESTION: Are you “fiscally” fit? Saving money, clipping coupons, scouting deals online and watching every dollar is so fashionably in for shrewd moms, caregivers and sandwich generation families who are making financial decisions. According to a the 10th anniversary edition of Prudential Research Study “Financial Experience & Behaviors Among Women“, the data indicates that 95% [...]
READ MORE »SURVEY: Medication Management and Resources for Caregivers
In order to better understand caregivers needs as it pertains to medication management, we are conducting a quick survey. Medication management, health literacy and good communication among caregivers, patients and health care providers are very important for patient’s health, safety, their outcomes after hospital stay and transition to home. As more family caregivers take on [...]
READ MORE »Health Insurance Marketplace & Women’s Health {Video}
Women are the health care decision-makers and chief household officer in their families, but too often, women put their own health last. As the primary caregiver of the household, they are too busy scheduling doctor appointments for their family members, managing medication list for aging parents and tend to overlook their own health needs. But [...]
READ MORE »Shortage of Primary Care Doctors with ObamaCare? {Inforgraphic}
By the time we know it, it will be 2014 and the patient protection and affordable care act (ObamaCare) will be fully implemented. Critics are worried about the impact of the ObamaCare – increasing healthcare cost, higher taxes to fund a national healthcare and shortage of primary care doctors partly driven by Medicare payment structures [...]
READ MORE »#Carerx TweetChat: ePatients, Social Health & Private Healing in Web 2.0
[View the story "#Carerx Chat: w/Amy Ohm, CEO of Treatment Diaries on Social Health, Private Healing " on Storify] #Carerx Chat: w/Amy Ohm, CEO of Treatment Diaries on Social Health, Private Healing CareNovateMag.com, an online magazine with caregiving, medication literacy & social health news & insights hosted #Carerx chat, with our special guest Amy Ohm [...]
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