Baby boomers want to change the death experience. An overwhelming 80% of Americans want to die at home but the reality is that 60% die in the hospital and another 20% die in a nursing home. Many times, this shift…
More than 1.4 million Americans live in nursing homes; two-thirds of whom are primarily covered by Medicare and Medicaid. They are our frail elderly, disabled, medically compromised, and cognitively impaired who are at risk because they cannot care for themselves.…
Approximately five million people in the U.S. have some degree of dementia, a number assured to increase with the aging population. Dementia is sometimes mistakenly considered to be one disease, but it includes Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia,…