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Mathew Taber was kind enough to send me these screen shots of the sign in process for the federal exchange. Check it out and let me know if you saved money.
http://medicalaccessforamerica.com/obamacare-healthcare-exchanges/#comment-1473
I was not qualified for a subsidy under the NYS Exchange. http://www.healthbenefitexchange.ny.gov/
I didn’t have any trouble getting into the site, even from my phone. However, it was pretty disappointing to see the high deductibles and low coverage, especially for services I and my clients use like Chiropractic, Dentistry and Physical Therapy.
Oct. 1, 2013 Health Exchange Now Open & one more business bites the dust.
The TogetherRX web site has long been a resource for people who do not have health insurance to get access to prescription drugs at discount prices. Their web site says this about who they are:
With Together Rx Access®, individuals and families without prescription drug coverage can gain access to immediate savings on hundreds of brand-name and generic prescription products at their neighborhood pharmacies. Through this website, we also connect you with resources about the Health Insurance Marketplace, the Affordable Care Act, individual pharmaceutical company patient assistance programs, and other patient assistance resources.
Right under the promo is this notice of why you will no longer have access to this program.
IMPORTANT PROGRAM INFORMATION
Together Rx Access is ending February 28, 2014.
Together Rx Access has conducted a thorough review of our cardholders’ needs and the ability of the Program to meet these needs going forward. Based on that review, we have determined that individuals and families who need help obtaining their prescription medicines may be better served by the health coverage options available through the Health Insurance Marketplace, expanded Medicaid programs in select states, or by individual company prescription assistance programs. As a result, the Together Rx Access Program will close at the end of the year.
Eligible individuals can enroll in our prescription savings program until December 31, 2013. To help our cardholders transition to other programs, they can continue to use their Together Rx Access Card at participating pharmacies until February 28, 2014. After this day, savings will no longer be available with the Together Rx Access Card.
For more information go to http://www.togetherrxaccess.com/
Here is the link to the NYS Health Exchange, where you will find information about which health plans are available and what they cover. You will also need to use the exchange if you have previously been covered by a Healthy NY Plan. http://info.nystateofhealth.ny.gov/
These summaries show the benefits or health services that are covered by “standard” health plans offered in NY State of Health. Standard plans must have 10 Essential Health Benefits required by NY State of Health.
Summaries also show the amount you may pay (deductibles, copays) for those services. Standard plans are available at several levels: Bronze; Silver; Gold and Platinum. Certain New Yorkers may choose from these levels: Silver-Cost Sharing Reduction; Catastrophic; and American Indian/Alaskan Indian products.
Use these summaries along with the Tax Credit and Premium Estimator to get an idea of your total costs and benefits.
Life is short.
I was just finishing a long day, having brought my client, age 72 to ECT, stopping at the drugstore and then going out to dinner with her. Everything was going great. The doctors had just reduced her shock treatments from twice a week to once a week and she was getting used to her new memory assisted living residence.
Just the week before, I had taken her to visit with another client, who was in a nursing home. It was disturbing to see someone who was physically fit, but who didn’t remember that her children were grown adults, compared to someone else who was in a wheel chair but had no signs of dementia. The person in the nursing home, age 68 was in a wheelchair since an accident injured her spine about 10 years ago. She was a former art teacher and continued to follow the museums and the opera. Because she required transfer by Hoyer lift, she had spent down her savings to pay for in-home aides. Now she was waiting almost a year to go back home, while the paperwork went through the Medicaid process.
Then, just as I was ready to get in the car, I received a call from a hospital saying that this other client, the one from the nursing home was being admitted to the CCU and could I come right away. This was about 9PM and I hate to drive in the dark, but I was the Health Care Agent and they needed someone to contact about her medical history. I had never been in this hospital, a little community medical center that was close to the nursing home. Glen Cove Hospital was easy to get to, and the emergency room entrance was right by the free parking. I ran in only to see my client being hooked up to all manor of tubes and machines.
I’m writing about this because most of the articles I see about caregiving refer to people in their 90’s, when you can understand that they will be near the end of life. Even in my past experience, most of the people for whom I am called in to produce a DNR or Do not Resuscitate Order are unconscious and therefore I am called upon to use the Health Care Proxy.
But, in this case, the patient was alert, albeit very frightened. The doctors did all they could for the next few days but finally told me that a decision would have to be made. Either the patient would require a tracheostomy and would remain on a ventilator. This would mean that she would not be able to go home, instead she would remain in the nursing home for the rest of her life. She would also require a feeding tube and would no longer be able to speak. Even though the ethics committee doctor tried to talk about the possibility that some people can get off the ventilator, the pulmonologist was kind enough to explain that this usually only happens to younger, healthier people. The reality was, that nothing else could be done to save this patient’s life, other than to give her the kind of life most people dread.
This wasn’t the first time that I was there when a patient had to decide if death was preferable to living without any enjoyment. But, this was the youngest person, someone who only a week before was planning on going home, someone who didn’t suffer from any other life threatening disease. No cancer, no heart problems. She had not written out an advanced directive to talk about her desire for or against being on a respirator, because she didn’t suffer from any illness. The doctors couldn’t explain why her body was just shutting down. A sweet nurse came in and gave the patient a sedative. She said I could leave and come back the next day, when the patient was less anxious.
I was given a traffic ticket the following morning, for running a red light on my way to the hospital. Once before during this hospitalization, the patient had been able to be weaned from the ventilator, and I hoped that I would find her sitting up, a miracle. But, no. The patient was still hooked up to all manor of tubes, although now her eyes were fully alert. She asked for a pad and pen. With the nurse, the doctors and myself at her bedside, the patient wrote out her directions. “If nothing else can be done to cure me and let me go home as I was, then I do not want to have the procedure.”
Over the next week, I came to think of this person as the bravest person I knew. She talked to me about her life and the things she cared about. She did not have any children, which was how I became her health agent and POA. She asked me to go to her apartment and get her will. When I returned with the will, she went over each line to explain to me why she had made each provision. We laughed about cheating death, since the tubes had been removed and so far, she was still alive. She told me that she was satisfied with her life. Then came the morning when the nurses called me at 6 am to say that the patient had passed peacefully during the night. I went to her room to say my final goodbye and found her watching TV and looking just as I had left her, only no longer breathing.
NYS Health Benefit Exchange Update
PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH PLANNING COUNCIL
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH PLANNING
June 26, 2013 11:00 a.m.
90 Church Street, NYC 4th Floor, Room 4A & 4B
Learn and Comment on the NYS Health Insurance Exchange
Donna Frescatore, Executive Director of the New York Health Benefit Exchange
with a panel discussion
Paul Eisenstat, Excellus BlueCross BlueShield
Paul Macielak, NY Health Plan Association
Pat Wang, Healthfirst
PUBLIC COMMENT ENCOURAGED! SPEAK NOW OR DON’T COMPLAIN LATER!
Patients know when they need their Parkinson’s meds.
Here is an article that appeared in the NY Times regarding the dangers for patients with Parkinson’s who do not get their medications on time, or who get other medications that worsen the Parkinson’s and cause delirium. http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/hospital-dangers-for-patients-with-parkinsons/ .
The article points out that people with Parkinson’s are hospitalized much more frequently than others their age, and their stays last longer. A common reason: “These patients aren’t getting their meds on time, and they’re not getting the right meds.” Some need to take their dopamine-replacing drugs as often as every two hours, a schedule at odds with standard hospital regimens.
Besides going to the hospital, any change in the routine of a person with Parkinson’s can cause delirium and psychotic episodes.
My client, who I will call Caroline, was living in her own apartment with 24/7 aides. She attended an adult day care program several times a week. Caroline was very attuned to when she needed her medications. Even when she went out of the house, she carried a few pills in an envelope that was marked with the name of the medications, the dosage and the time to take them. Even without being prompted, she was aware when the Parkinson’s medication was due, because she would feel pain or trembling in her legs.
Caroline had been experiencing some unusual anxiety at night. We called the Neurologist for help. He recommended increasing the Seroquel, an anti-psychotic medication. It helped some, but Caroline was still resisting help from her aides, so the family decided she might do better in an assisted living facility.
The Assisted Living Facility offered medication management, as well as companions to take the resident to and from meals. They assured us that they were very familiar with Parkinson’s Disease and could handle her medications. Almost immediately after admission, Caroline was diagnosed with a Urinary Tract Infection. Here is a blog post that describes what a UTI can do to a person with Parkinson’s much better than I can. “I have learned that UTI’s are very common in advanced Parkinson’s patients. Because all the muscles of the body are implicated in this nasty disease, it is very difficult for sufferers to completely empty their bladders, always leaving behind some urine. This creates a perfect breeding ground for bacteria.” Here’s the link to the blog. http://day2dayparkinsons.blogspot.com/2010/09/saturday-night-fever.html
Once Caroline’s UTI was cleared, everything seemed to go back to normal and she was getting used to her new home. However, when I called to see how she was, she kept complaining that she wasn’t getting her meds on time. I spent a few days with her and it did seem that the meds were not being given on a regular basis and I asked about it at the nurses station. It seems that the house psychiatrist had changed the times of some of the meds because Caroline was complaining about being tired. They had changed the time of her Parkinson’s medication to fit their schedule, waking her at 5 Am to allow for the five doses a day she needed. We had given her from Stalevo every four hours from 8 AM to 10 PM. In addition, they changed the Seroquel dose from bedtime to lunch hour.
A few weeks later, I was told that Caroline was wandering around the building and not able to function at an independent level. When I arrived at the facility, she couldn’t even put on her clothes. She was so distracted, that she wasn’t aware of where she was. On the advice of a colleague at Zucker Hillside Hospital, I immediately took her the emergency room.
The Zucker Hillside Hospital is North Shore-LIJ’s nationally recognized behavioral health center known for its pioneering clinical, teaching and research programs. The Geriatric Psychiatry Inpatient Service is staffed by a multidisciplinary behavioral health team with special gerontological expertise. Patient populations include elders with late-life depression, psychotic disorders, Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementing condition with concomitant serious behavioral disturbances such as agitation, aggression, paranoia, and mood abnormalities, and medical/neurological illnesses with psychiatric symptom expression. The team at Zucker Hillside determined that Caroline was having an extreme reaction to the medications. Several weeks later, they are still working to normalize her. The psychiatrist explained that most assisted living memory programs are not appropriate for patients with Parkinson’s induced psychosis. More on where people with dementia’s that are not Alzheimer’s related can best be cared for coming in our next post. In the meantime, here is a free kit that can help you prepare for a visit to the hospital or even just to keep around the house so that others can see what they must know to help the person with Parkinson’s.
The Aware in Care kit can be requested at www.awareincare.org or by calling 1-800-4PD-INFO (473-4636).
This is why the National Parkinson Foundation (NPF) has launched the Aware in Care program, which aims to help people with Parkinson’s disease get the best care possible during a hospital stay.
To protect, prepare and empower people with Parkinson’s before, during and after a hospital visit, NPF has developed a free Aware in Care kit with tools and information to share with hospital staff during a planned or emergency hospital stay.
The kit includes:
Hospital Action Plan Read about how to prepare for your next hospital visit—whether it is planned or an emergency.
Parkinson’s Disease ID Bracelet Wear your bracelet at all times in case you are in an emergency situation and cannot communicate.
Medical Alert Card Fill in your card with emergency contact information and place in your wallet.
Medication Form Complete this form and keep copies in your kit for use at the hospital.
Parkinson’s Disease Fact Sheet Share the facts about Parkinson’s with hospital staff and ask that a copy be placed in your chart.
I Have Parkinson’s Reminder Slips Share vital information about Parkinson’s disease with every member of your care team in the hospital.
Thank You Card Present this card to a staff member who provides high quality care.
Magnet Use this magnet to display a copy of your Medication Form in your hospital.
Who will be there for you?
I often act as health care proxy and power of attorney for my clients. I always make it clear that I am a Patient Advocate, not a family member. Yet, every time I speak to someone at the hospital or any care setting at all, the people constantly refer to ‘My Mom.’
Do they think they are reaching me at some level, where I will turn off my business sense and burst out in tears of thankfulness for their sensitivity. Surely they say this to everyone, like when the home health aide says “I treat everyone like my grandmother?”
I have several clients who are in their early seventies. They seem more like friends to me, since we are all baby boomers. They are nothing like my mother, who went to high school during WWII and lived through the depression. Their hair has less grey in it than mine! Yet, people still refer to them as ‘Your Mom’ when we are talking about their care.
Some of my clients have their own children, who have hired me because they want a professional to help them to navigate the complex and fragmented health care system. Some of the people have hired me themselves, because they are used to delegating to professionals or because they have hit a wall with the long-term care bureaucracy. They need someone to take care of business, not another child.
My mother was an executive secretary to a Supreme Court Judge. She also ran political campaigns and was the go to person when something happened in the neighborhood. She knew the bankers, the lawyers and the chiefs of whatever you needed. After she passed, many of her neighbors told me that they would miss her counsel more than anything. Even when I had to invoke her health care proxy, I didn’t think of myself as being the decision maker. I was simply carrying out her wishes. I wasn’t the ‘child’, I was the person who she had placed her faith in to convey her preferences.
As professionals, we often talk about the importance of preplanning. As we move into a time when long-term care will be ‘Managed’ along the lines of our health insurance plans, I ask you to consider the terminology that will be used to refer to the person receiving the care. Will it be the ‘user’, ‘the consumer’, or ‘your Mom’? I hope it will be the ‘individual’ with all the rights and choices that come along with the title.
My New Year’s Resolutions 2013
2013 will bring many changes to GetHealthHelp. As we stand on the fiscal cliff and cower under the debt ceiling, it is hard to be flippant about what the New Year holds. The usual New Year’s resolutions, like eating healthier or to start an exercise program, don’t seem to take on any urgency when we see our nation’s leaders and our role models kicking the can down the road. Being the eternal optimist, here are a few resolutions that I plan to keep and some that I will probably need some help with. My best wishes to all for a healthy and happy New Year.
1- Make the GetHealthHelp website even more informative.
2- Make the GetHealthHelp website easier to navigate.
3- Make the GetHealthHelp website more interactive.
4- Make the GetHealthHelp website more fun.
May you find everything you envision.
Choices for when you out live your assets.
DON’T WORRY
Many adult children who are paying for in-home caregivers are facing the reality that their parents will outlive their savings. By the time they are calling me, it usually goes something like this, “My Dad is running out of money, I need to place him in an assisted living facility,” or “My Mom has spent everything, now she needs to get on Medicaid.” The children have decided on the ‘Tactics’ without considering what the ‘Strategy’ is for reaching their parent’s life expectations or taken into account the ‘Goals’ and associated realities of their parent’s situation.
Miriam-Webster defines strategy as a careful plan or method for achieving a particular goal, usually over a long period of time.
Sari Klinghoffer, Director of Sales, WPI Communications Inc. wrote “A strategy looks at the big picture and uses various tactics in its execution.” The big picture is to gain their customers trust. In the past she used direct mail. Presently they have added blogging and social media. So, while the ‘Tactics’ may have changed with the times, the ‘Strategy’ and ‘Goals’ have remained the same.
This may be said of our Elders also because the things that really mattered to them continue to do so, but the tactics must change in response to the new financial situation.
BE HAPPY
Instead of using business terms like strategy and tactics, we use words like ‘Life Expectations & Planning’. Life Expectations is often thought of in terms of years. But, instead we should think of what we ‘expect’ from life. An example of a lifetime expectation strategy would be to find contentment or peace, or you may want to find excitement and fun. We call it ‘Giving a Voice to Your Health Concerns.”
My client Virginia, who has stage 4 Alzheimer’s Disease told me that she likes to have change in her life. She was outspending her income and had drawn down all of her assets. The family thought she was ready for a nursing home. Her strategy is to keep life interesting. The tactic we employed to reach her strategy was moving to a different assisted living facility, one that had more activities for Alzheimer’s patients and where the costs were within her income level.
Sandra, a client, saved her money from years of teaching to purchase her dream apartment, even though the monthly bills were eating into her investment accounts. She never expected to find herself confined to a wheelchair. Always fiercely independent, Sandra hired private aides to tend to her needs. After depleting her savings, she told me that she’d rather live in her apartment without food than move to a nursing home. With the help of her accountant and attorney, we are getting Medicaid coverage and enrolling in a Long Term Managed Care Plan. Her strategy is to stay at home, her tactics are to apply for Medicaid Long Term Care coverage.
You can apply this concept to any situation. First determine your strategy, your mission, your goal. Then find the resources to provide you with the tactics to execute your strategy. A Patient Advocate can help you to think things through to identify your strategy and to prioritize which tactics will work best for you.
Call us for a free phone consultation, Caryn Isaacs, Paient Advocate GetHealthHelp.com 347-965-9222. E-mail patientadvocate@gethealthhelp.com
Resource:
Sari Klinghoffer, Director of Sales
WPI Communications, Inc.
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Springfield, New Jersey 07081
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E-mail: slklinghoffer@wpicommunications.com
Web: http://www.wpicommunications.com/
Emergency home health crunch due to Sandy
Sandy strikes another blow on seniors and caregivers. Many home health aides lost their homes and cars in Sandy. Some families, who are juggling work and caring for their parents just can’t get to the store and run over to their parents home, while negotiating with plumbers and electricians at their own storm ravaged place. The effects of Sandy just keeping coming, like the wave that rammed through the area over a month ago.
Last week, I went to meet a couple who required 24/7 care. Dad has Alzheimer’s and is in a wheelchair. Mom had two car accidents in as many days over the past weekend. First, she had a run in with a tractor-trailer who was in town for Sandy and wasn’t familiar with the roads. Then, she rammed into a cement divider because the street lights were out and she couldn’t see. To top it off, one of the usual aides for the couple couldn’t make it in to work because of damage to his home and car. Senior Helpers Caring in Home Companions came to the rescue. Laura Giunta, Director of Business Development said, “Senior Helpers provides companion care in homes and facilities throughout Long Island. Services include Cooking, Housekeeping, safety monitoring, errands, plant and pet care, transportation, socialization and integration. As a certified Senior Advisor, I assist families in getting to the next step regarding the care and safety of their loved ones.” The agency arranged for one of the aides to drive Mom to the police station to get the report, then to take her to the Jewish Center where she teaches Hebrew. Both the day and evening home care workers were well acquainted with the family dynamics between the couple and their adult children, who were also busy rebuilding their Sandy affected homes. Kam, the aide who took on the extra shifts also lost his car in the storm. He was forced to travel two hours each way by bus to be there in time to coordinate getting Dad in and out of bed, which takes two people. He said the agency supports him in making sure he has the resources to know what to do in any emergency.
Laura and I share another client in Nassau County. This couple, Dad with Dementia and Mom suffering with chronic back pain and a history of falling, decided to go to Florida instead of sitting around their gutted neighborhood. Also, their usual companion had been told by her doctor to stop work because she was pregnant and shouldn’t be in such a stressful environment. Mom had fallen in her home earlier in the week, so she reluctantly agreed to have a replacement aide come in for a few hours each day. The day before they were to get on the plane, the couple decided to go to the store for a few things. About 5 PM I had a call from their daughter. Mom twisted her arm while opening the ice cream freezer and fell on her head. She was bleeding all over the place..and luckily conscious….and Dad was in the car! A customer, who was also a nurse, called their daughter and she called me. I told her to call Melanie from Senior Helpers. The agency had a companion drive over to the market to pick up Dad, take him home for dinner and get him settled. He was pretty upset and disoriented until she offered him ice cream. The police drove the car home. Mom was in the hospital for 7 hours. They scanned her head, neck, arm and then finally super glued her head gash. Senior Helpers had a special aide pick her up, get her into bed and stay over night. The aide also went to the store to get those needed items the next day and got the couple on their way. They landed in one piece in Florida and are thankful that Senior Helpers was there for them.
Many of my clients are facing similar issues when their aides cannot make it to work or are resigning their posts. Going through the hiring process to replace a long time private aide can be traumatic for the patient as well as the family. This is one of the reasons I prefer to use a reliable agency who can make sure there is always someone available. You can reach Laura at
Email: lgiunta@seniorhelpers.com
Web: http://www.seniorhelpers.com
Phone: 631-383-4341 516-750-0035
Oldsters show us how to deal with Sandy
Weeks after Sandy ran a river through living rooms and took our cars with it, we are still hearing stories of people living without electricity, heat, hot water or word about when things will be back to normal. Yet, my clients have been through worse. Even as they are the ones who really need help, they offer encouragement and a positive attitude to the younger folks who are frozen in fear that they can’t get gas for their cars.
Just before the storm, I met with Anne and her husband Harold who live in Brighton Beach. Harold requires help to get from his bed to his wheelchair. Anne is a cancer survivor, but still supervises Harold’s home health aides, wound care and medications. They get picked up by Access-a-Ride everyday so that Harold can receive Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. After the storm, their apartment had no power, no heat and no hot water. The blocks surrounding their home were all evacuated, but their elevator wasn’t working, so there was no way for then to reach the Access-a-Ride. For the first few days, the Visiting Nurses couldn’t get to their neighborhood because the trains weren’t working. The local stores were all closed including the Duane Reade which had a sign on it telling people to go to their other store, many miles away. Then the National Guard came door to door and when they saw Harold, they sent for the EMT and took him to the hospital, but not the local one in Coney Island because that is evacuated also. Now Anne is traveling by taxi to visit him, but needs to get home each day for their cat. There is light, but no heat or hot water. Even with all this, she tells me first about the wonderful lunch her sons took her to in Manhattan yesterday. She also hopes to go to the Met for a show that a friend recommended, as long as Harold is safe in the hospital.
Sandra was getting rehab at the Glengariff Health Center. She was anxious to get home to her apartment in Battery Park City. Then came Sandy. A few days later, when their phones came back on, Sandra told me that she was happy to be there, safe, warm and fed. The only thing she needed was dental floss. She told me not to worry, that she could wait until I could get there next.
My friend and mentor Martha and her husband Matthew, both in their 80’s live in Freeport. Last year, Irene flooded their basement, while they were out in Mattituck at their summer place. They came back to a black mold and had to have the whole level demolished, including irreplaceable designer details and a lifetime of photos and everything else one saves for the memories. Now, Sandy came along and took the furnace, the water heater, the washer and dryer, along with the boxes of dry cleaned clothes that had been returned by their insurance company after Irene. Their son just moved to Florida from Long Beach. He considers himself lucky even though the antiques he left at the house in Freeport are a complete loss.
I had an appointment to take a client for a tour of the beautiful New Nautilus Hotel in Long Beach on the Wednesday after the storm. Needless to say, we couldn’t get there. We don’t even know when they can open, as the reports for Long Beach and the Rockaways are not good. Here is an excerpt from a Daily News article, which was the only way I knew what was happening to another client, who has been living in the Long Island Living Center.
Morris Sorid, aged 102 and a Holocaust and cancer survivor, also made it through Hurricane Sandy in one piece. He was living in an assisted living facility in Atlantic Beach, just over the Atlantic Beach Bridge from Far Rockaway, Queens, and was evacuated as part of a “mass emergency exodus” as the storm approached. He is currently residing in the basement library of the New Hempstead retirement home in Kew Gardens, Queens.
He says, “I was nearly destroyed six or seven times in my life. To tell you the truth the hurricane doesn’t excite me too much.”
He has the utmost confidence in his caretaker, too – Archie Catacutan, a 26-year-old nurse. Of him, Sorid says, “I depend on him, so I have nothing to be afraid of.”
During the storm it was stressful, but Sorid was more concerned about his fellow roomies and even offered up his bed by the wall to a man who looked like he was going to fall off his bed.
Sorid survived the Nazi invasion of Pruzany, Poland (this is now Belarus) with his wife by hiding in a bunker for 18 days after hearing about the trains heading to the death camps. After they left the bunker, they lived in the forest, eventually escaping and emigrating to Brooklyn in 1948. They had left their daughter with grandparents, but learned later that she, along with the rest of their family, perished in Auschwitz. Sorid and his wife went on to have two sons, and he published his memoir, “One More Miracle,” at age 95.
“Sandy has been horrific, impacting so many, and taking so much. Sandy has caused loss of life, loss of necessities and loss of possessions. Sandy has taken so much, and for those of us not directly impacted, we thank God, maybe say a prayer and think of how we can help. For those directly affected, those who need to rebuild, we need them to know that their community is with them, that they are not alone, that there is a shoulder to cry on. That while possessions may be gone memories are not, while necessities have been taken, it is ok and honorable to accept help, accept a smile, accept a listening ear. It is ok feel beat up but not beaten, to feel weary but not defeated, to feel sad, as you hold your loved ones close and begin to reevaluate what you appreciate. While Sandy, this horrific event took so much, it did not take away those characteristics that make us who we are and makes you, you, allowing you to be who you are. Try to take steps every day, even little steps that can help you rebuild, feel empowered and know we all know how horrific Sandy’s aftermath is. “said Lori Metz, LCSW, CCM, when I asked her for a few words of encouragement. Learn more about Lori at http://therapists.psychologytoday.com/rms/prof_detail.php?profid=71121&sid=1262182052.4014_32358&state=New+York&lastname=Metz
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Have you lived a life of accomplishment, doing what fulfills
you? Have you reached an age where things are harder to do?
Are you a leader and you know that you cannot do it alone?
Then, you are an Aging Icon.
My name is Caryn Isaacs.
Having been at the helm of developing hundreds of healthcare
businesses and running several multi-million-dollar companies,
my journey includes pioneering a physician-owned HMO and
active engagement in Healthcare Reform.
As a Patient Advocate, my company, GetHealthHelp, LLC,
specializes in crafting solutions that enable Aging Icons to
continue pursuing their passions.
An example is a 98-year-old author, playwriter and poet who is
suffering from fibromyalgia and thought that all her work
would be forgotten. I found a way for her legacy to continue by
publishing them as books and now working on having them
made into films.
If this sounds like something of interest, let’s meet to talk
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