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Coping
With Caregiving
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Host: Jacqueline
Marcell
The Author
of Elder Rage
Segment 1
Show Date: 04/17/04
Bill Dyess is Executive Vice President and Director of Marketing for Gelbwaks Insurance Services, and also a past President of the Dade and Broward Association of Health Underwriters, who honored him with the Stanley Greenspun Memorial Award as the “Health Person Of The Year”--the highest achievement award of the Health Underwriters Association. Bill conducts Long Term Care educational seminars throughout Florida for consumers, insurance agents, and financial planners.
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2
Show Date: 04/17/04
Steve Hefferon is a Licensed Massage Therapist and expert in back pain. He is also the co-author and producer of the recently released video: Lose The Back Pain. Steve discusses why traditional treatments don't work and gives the secrets your health care providers don't want you to know regarding your back pain.
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Show Date:
04/17/04
Dr. Mark Hertzberg says that every doctor and patient can learn to communicate better. All that’s missing is a clear idea of what’s happening during the doctor/ patient dynamic and the use of a little common sense. In his book, “The Most Unhealthy Relationship of All: A Guide to Better Doctor-Patient Communication”, his method is light-hearted, but the point he makes is deadly serious: a lack of communication can be very hazardous to your health!
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Show Date: 04/17/04 Dr. Sabrina Freeman is a sociologist, Stanford University Ph.D., and author of "Teach Me Language". She’s an advocate for the rights of children with autism to receive science-based treatment and is involved in court cases against governments to obtain autism treatment insurance. She also written, "Science for Sale in the Autism Wars: Medically necessary autism treatment, the court battle for health insurance and why health technology academics are enemy number one". |
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5 Mike Gamble is President of Financial Safeguards, Inc., specializing in issues important to seniors--everything from retirement planning to Medicare and elder care. He has co-developed a better method for matching insurance benefits to the actual costs of elder care, and as a result, he and his associate were awarded the first two United States Patents for long-term care insurance. His expertise was put to the test in February 2001 when he became the primary caregiver for his mother. |
Show Date: 04/17/04
Jacqueline discusses the most current statistics about Alzheimer’s from the Alzheimer’s Association. Also, statistics from the Fair Foundation regarding the inequity and disproportionate allocation in funding from the NIH (National Institutes of Health) for the diseases: Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, Alzheimer’s, Prostate Cancer, Parkinson’s Disease, Hepatitis C, and AIDS. www.ElderRage.com www.alz.org www.fairfoundation.com