Beneficiaries of the Medicare program have three rehabilitation-related benefits established by federal statute: physical therapy rehabilitation, occupational therapy, and speech-language therapy (speech-language pathology). All therapists, who must be graduates of accredited programs, must pass a national examination and be licensed, certified, or registered in their respective professions within the state in which the services are furnished. Medicare covers services that are necessary and likely to result in improvement in a reasonable period of time. Medicare does not currently regard prevention services provided by therapists as falling under therapy benefits and will not cover services intended to maintain a current level of function. (more…)

In an average, the life expectancy of women is 80 and 77 for men as shown in the US research during the late 1990s. This statistics illustrates that women outlive men in various reasons. The most common risks to senior safety are cited in the seniorjournal.com, which includes chronic heart failures such as heart attacks and chronic ischemic heart diseases. The second most common risks (more…)

I got up around 6:45 one morning and made my way to the kitchen to start the day. As I stood at the sink, something caught my eye out the front window. My neighbor’s front door appeared to be open and the screen door was flapping in the wind. This was a bit odd, because the temperatures were in the low 30’s and the north wind was howling… not exactly the kind of weather for leaving the door wide open. I stood there a few minutes to see if someone was coming in or out of the door and had possibly propped it open temporarily. (more…)

Parents are always conscious about their kid’s health related matter, thus they take children’s immunization as a serious issue. Children, particularly babies should be protected by taking immunization due to their bodies are easily infected with virus. However, parents often forgot that they also should take adult immunization shot. Grown up adults also need immunizations and keep it up-to-date to hinder any adult diseases or chronic disease which may be caught by their body. It is thus important that adult immunization should not take lightly and it necessary to always keep up-to-date. (more…)