Caregiver
Checklist (Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services)
Planning
for Your Discharge: A checklist for patients and caregivers preparing to leave
a hospital, nursing home, or other health care setting Consumer's
Tool Kit for Health Care Advance Planning (ABA
Commission on Law and Aging)
A
"tool kit" with worksheets, suggestions and resources to assist in advance
planning for health care decisions.
Court
Rejects the Right to Use Drugs Being Tested (New
York Times - Aug. 2007)
Do
desperate patients have the right to try unproven therapies? Family
Consent Laws Covering Routine Medical Care
(The Republican - Sept. 2007)
Filing
an Allegation Against a Health Care Professional (The Bureau of
Health Professions - Fall 2007)
What to do when a health care professional
fails to provide the quality of care you expect and are entitled to in the state
of Michigan. Health
Benefits for the Uninsured
(Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. - Sept. 2008)
Many Social Security Disability
Insurance beneficiaries have serious health care needs, but, under current law,
most are not eligible for Medicare until 29 months after he SSA has established
the onset of their disability. Health
Promotion Programs (Center for Healthy Aging)
Recommendations
of evidence-based programs that community organizations can implement. Medical
Care Often Inaccessible to Disabled Patients (Joseph
Shapiro - AAPD - Sept. 2007)
Take a moment to consider a basic part
of a doctor's office: the exam table. Frail elderly people often can't climb up
on that hard, plastic table with the crinkly, white paper. Toolkit
Provides Hospitals, Health Plans...Guidance for Collecting Patient Data
(Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
An updated toolkit designed to help
hospitals, clinics, health plans and others navigate the most frequently encountered
questions about collecting patient data—such as race, ethnicity, and primary
language. Upstream
Solutions: Does the Suppl. Security Income Program Reduce Disability in the Elderly?
(The Milbank Quarterly)
An interesting study from this multidisciplinary
journal of population health and health policy.
Using
Music to Heal (MSU Today
- Oct. 2007)
Does music have the power to heal? Music therapy faculty and
students in MSU’s Music Therapy Program believe that music therapy interventions
can boost the healing process and are working to bring the field of music therapy
to the next level, one beat at a time. World's
Most Powerful MRI Ready to Scan Human Brain
(Science Daily - Jan. 2, 2008)
The world's most powerful medical magnetic
resonance imaging machine, the 9.4 Tesla at the University of Illinois at Chicago,
has successfully completed safety trials and may soon offer physicians a real-time
view of biological processes in the human brain. | 
