Patricia E. Kefalas Dudek
Advocate for Elders, People
with Disabilities
and Their Families

Health Care - Misc. information and services regarding health care


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Articles and Publications

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.
Organizations and Websites of Interest

Access Project
Advocacy information for people that are experiencing medical debt.

Blusom Health & Fitness Blog
Info & discussion on a number of health related matters

Cody Bailey's Weblog
A blog with interesting articles and info on health issues.

For the People.com
A Florida attorney's consumer advocacy website with detailed health information regarding automobile accidents, health and home, and elderly care.

Michigan Public Health Institute
The mission of MPHI is to maximize positive health conditions in populations and communities through collaboration, scientific inquiry, and applied expertise.