Senior Health Articles

Senior Health / General

• Glaucoma: How healthy habits might help lower your risk
  Posted on 01/09/2017 by Sonora Regional Medical Center
• What is the difference between dementia and Alzheimer’s disease?
  Posted on 01/27/2015 by Reiker Schultz, MD
• What are considered normal signs of aging?
  Posted on 01/27/2015 by Matthew Personius, MD
• I’ve had a wound for almost a year. Why won’t it heal?
  Posted on 04/27/2011 by Eden Smith, MD

Senior Health / Advance Health Care Directive

• How do I create an advance directive and how can I be sure my advance directive will be honored should that time come?
  Posted on 01/28/2015 by Sue Endter, LCSW, ACHP-SW
• Does the POLST form replace an advanced health care directive?
  Posted on 01/28/2015 by Sue Endter, LCSW, ACHP-SW
• How can a POLST form be helpful to me or my loved one?
  Posted on 01/28/2015 by Sue Endter, LCSW, ACHP-SW
• have been hearing about a legal document for advance health care planning called a POLST form. What is it?
  Posted on 01/28/2015 by Sue Endter, LCSW, ACHP-SW
• Who should have advance health care directives?
  Posted on 01/28/2015 by Sue Endter, LCSW, ACHP-SW
• What are advance directives?
  Posted on 01/28/2015 by Sue Endter, LCSW, ACHP-SW
• What does advance health care planning include?
  Posted on 01/28/2015 by Sue Endter, LCSW, ACHP-SW
• What is advance health care planning?
  Posted on 01/28/2015 by Sue Endter, LCSW, ACHP-SW

Senior Health / Home Health

• Can patients receive long-term care at home? Does long-term care insurance cover home care?
  Posted on 11/12/2012 by Anna Eberhardt-Bertrand
• My aunt needs daily care, options besides a nursing home?
  Posted on 11/12/2012 by Anna Eberhardt-Bertrand
• What kind of health services can be provided in the home?
  Posted on 11/12/2012 by Anna Eberhardt-Bertrand
• What might require home health services, any specific requirements?
  Posted on 11/07/2011 by David Allen, MD
• When is a patient released from home health? Who pays for home health services?
  Posted on 11/07/2011 by David Allen, MD
• Who provides home health services? Can friends and family participate in the care of a home health patient?
  Posted on 11/07/2011 by David Allen, MD
• When is a patient referred for home health services?
  Posted on 11/07/2011 by David Allen, MD
• What is the role of a medical director with a home health agency?
  Posted on 11/07/2011 by David Allen, MD

Senior Health / Hospice

• Are there any specific tips for coping with grief during the holidays?
  Posted on 01/28/2015 by Shauna Burrow
• What are the symptoms of grief?
  Posted on 01/28/2015 by Shauna Burrow
• What is the first thing you should say to someone who has suffered the loss of a loved one?
  Posted on 01/28/2015 by Shauna Burrow
• Who pays for hospice services?
  Posted on 01/27/2015 by Matthew Personius, MD
• How are friends and family typically involved with the care of a hospice patient?
  Posted on 01/27/2015 by Matthew Personius, MD
• Where do patients receive hospice care?
  Posted on 01/27/2015 by Matthew Personius, MD
• Who provides hospice care?
  Posted on 01/27/2015 by Matthew Personius, MD
• Are there any specific requirements that patients must meet to receive hospice services?
  Posted on 01/27/2015 by Matthew Personius, MD
• When is a patient referred for hospice care?
  Posted on 01/27/2015 by Matthew Personius, MD
• What is hospice?
  Posted on 01/27/2015 by Matthew Personius, MD

Senior Health / Palliative Care

• How do I get palliative care?
  Posted on 01/28/2015 by Sue Endter, LCSW, ACHP-SW
• How do I know if I need palliative care?
  Posted on 01/28/2015 by Sue Endter, LCSW, ACHP-SW
• What is the difference between palliative care and hospice?
  Posted on 01/28/2015 by Sue Endter, LCSW, ACHP-SW
• How can palliative care help me?
  Posted on 01/28/2015 by Sue Endter, LCSW, ACHP-SW
• What is palliative care?
  Posted on 01/28/2015 by Sue Endter, LCSW, ACHP-SW