Decision Guide
Alternative & Wellness
Alternative medicine offers a broad-based, proactive approach to promote wellness and healing. It’s a wide-lens view of overall health rather than the narrow, reactive...
Patient Advocacy
Patient advocacy is an area of lay specialization in health care concerned with advocacy for patients, survivors and caregivers. The patient advocate may be an individual or an organization, often, though not always,...
Respite Care
Respite Care is a level of temporary care that is often paid by Medicare. Programs include levels of provisional care to treat seniors needing...
Rehabilitation Facility
Rehabilitation services offer short-term stays in nursing facilities for those requiring around-the-clock rehabilitative care. It is not a permanent living arrangement. The goal of...
Palliative Care
Palliative care is an approach that encompasses the holistic treatment of pain; physically, psychologically and spiritually to improve the quality of life. Its main...
Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy is used to help patients, from toddlers to the elderly, to perform daily living and working tasks so they can live independent,...
Mental Health
Today, mental illness is soaring among older adults. Cognitive impairment includes dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease. Currently close to 5 million adults over the age...
Doctors & Hospitals
Make sure you know the hospital in advance that will serve your parent in the case of emergency. Hospitals serve up many types of...
Diet and Nutrition
Diet and nutrition experts address a wide range of health issues, from weight loss to blood pressure control by helping seniors improve their diets...
Physical Therapy
There are many benefits of physical therapy for seniors and older adults. It can help to provide a safe environment for your senior and...
