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With AI, skepticism is vital. Always verify sources, seek multiple confirmations, and prioritize educational resources over commercial ones for reliable understanding.
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Chronic illness often brings pain and limitations, but resilience helps individuals manage daily tasks. Pets provide love and purpose, enhancing life quality. Alternatives like fostering or volunteering are beneficial too.
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Focus on enhancing your quality of life through passion, creativity, and meaningful connections. Here are some suggestions on how to start.
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During holidays, patients face challenges due to dietary restrictions. Family support is crucial in adapting meals to prevent health risks associated with overindulgence in food and liquids.
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Effective caregiving requires prioritizing personal well-being first. Caregivers must share responsibilities, seek help, and utilize community resources to maintain their mental, physical, and spiritual health while supporting others.
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In life, you control decisions based on values. In emergencies, appoint a trusted person, like a family member, as a proxy. Create a Living Will to ensure your care preferences.
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When people can’t go home from a hospital, they are often sent to a skilled nursing facility. Why can’t they go home? It’s not safe. In health terms, being safe means being able to do everyday things without help with no harm being done. Everyday things, called Activities of Daily Living (ADL), are things like
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The biggest barrier in healthcare is communication. How can you make it easy to communicate with you? I had a job as a case manager. I had to call patients at risk of a hospitalization to try to problem solve. Maybe 10% answered the phone. This made it difficult to help, when no one would
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Or shots… or cream… or whatever treatment you have been prescribed. Easier said than done, sometimes. You went to the doctor and they added something else to the long list of things you have to take. This one has a commercial on TV, so you know it’s going to be expensive. It can be tempting
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In our lives, there are things that get in the way of doing the things we want. Sometimes there isn’t enough money. Sometimes you need a ride to the appointment, or the pharmacy. Other times, you just don’t understand what is happening. These are called gaps in care. It means there is a disconnect or
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