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July 15th, 2008

Medical Homes

Lately, I’ve been reading about a concept called “medical homes”.
Essentially, a primary care physician is being paid extra to coordinate a patient’s care through routine visits, screenings, specialists and hospitalizations.
According to this story about the medical home on ABC News:
The concept aims to change rushed doctor’s appointments and fragmented specialist care by creating patient care […]

By Elizabeth -- 1 comment

March 20th, 2008

Sandwich Generation stress

Major U.S. Media outlets are all over the Sandwich Generation topic today.
ABC News has a story Sandwich Generation Faces Massive Stress in Caring for Aging Parents and Kids (in other news, water is wet) and CNN posted Great Web sites when aging parents need help.
Both articles have links to some helpful websites.
Tags: ABC-News, caring […]

By Elizabeth -- 4 comments

November 19th, 2007

Mom and grandmom approach parenting differently?

As if there weren’t enough “wars” going on in the media what with the whole “working mother v. stay at home mother” thing, now there’s a whole phenomenon of “parent wars” where the Boomer mothers and the Generation X daughters differ on parenting ideas.
According to the story, mothers and daughters differ on parenting issues […]

By Elizabeth -- 1 comment

June 24th, 2007

The High Cost of Eldercare

ABC News is doing a series on elder care in the United States: Role Reversal: The High Cost of Elder Care.
Predictably, it talks about some incredible costs, but, the statistic that struck me the most:
A recent estimate puts the market value of this “informal care” market at $102.7 billion in 2005. That’s more than […]

By Elizabeth -- 2 comments