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Older Patients Are At Risk in the Hospital - How To Be An Advocate for Your Parent, Grandparent, Spouse or Other Older Loved One

You might think that admitting an older adult to the hospital is as simple as dropping them off at "Admitting" and allowing the hospital staff to take care of the rest. Think again. Older adults desperately need your help because a hospital stay can be fraught with medical errors, medication mistakes, falls, infectious diseases and a host of other life threatening events.  read more »

"Thank goodness you're on disability!!", a chiropractor said to me yesterday.   

Thank goodness?  That my income is a third what it used to be?  That I can barely function some days?  That I'm still grieving the loss of the career I'd always wanted?   What was I to 'thank goodnessing' for again??  read more »

Have you read this information from Dr. Mark?    REALLY an important bit to read, so I'll give you a few minutes.....

http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/being-your-own-advocate-particularly-critical-fibro

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