ELDER COTTAGES
Also known as Granny Flats or Echo Housing
Privacy with Proximity
AFFORDABLE, CONVENIENT FAMILY CARE!
Now, elderly or disabled people have a convenient alternative to nursing homes or retirement communities for senior housing. And those who love them enjoy unparalleled peace of mind, knowing their loved ones are safe, secure, and close by. Continue reading
The New England Journal of Medicine has a great website and video on the Primary Care Physician Crisis, and a round table on suggestions and possible solutions.
Just as much as broken systems need to fail, we need to begin to pick up the pieces and begin finding ways to reassemble them to build a system that we want, and that works.
Take some time to review this topic. Whether you use the healthcare system today, undoubtedly you will in the future. Think of your family members, and our elders. This is all our problems.
Check out the site: http://tinyurl.com/5bpo3f
Thank you.
A survey by the Physicians Foundation revealed some startling information. Our doctors are not happy. Not only that they are miserable.
Of the more than 150,000 doctors that were served, an amazing 49% of them are planning to reduce the number of patients they are seeing in the next 3 years. This problem is magnified when you consider that there are very few MD’s to replace them. In fact 78% of the MD’s surveyed felt there is already an existing shortage in primary care doctors. Continue reading
A recent study out of University of Florida, revealed that the health of the people is greatly affected by the raising of alcohol taxes.
The state of Alaska, in 1983 raised their alcohol tax, and what followed was a 29% drop in alcohol-related deaths. Again Alaska raised taxes on alcohol in 2002, and the health of the people improved, with an 11% drop in alcohol related deaths. Less alcohol, longer life. Amazing.
So, raise those alcohol taxes, and improve peoples health.
