Healthcare
•Video: Alternative Pain Relief for Osteoarthritis
Below is a video on some simple alternative things to try that can help to ease the pain associated with osteoarthritis. The video is by Dr. Susan Jewell, and describes some things to eat that may help, as well as a couple of other things.
•Healthcare and Rights – The Healthcare Crisis
Every single day we, as persons with disabilities, face the myriad of facts related to a society that is attempting to accept a disability culture, but still has the prejudices from long-ingrained perspectives of disability as, “medical,” not, “culture.” We face employers who are being forced, by federal and state laws, to accept persons with disabilities in the workplace, but still find the means to weasel around such laws.
•Managed Care, Discrimination, Poverty, Inequality
Human Resources personnel have the ability to help persons with disabilities into the workplace, and there are certainly disabled people who are willing to work. Unfortunately, there are some hurdles that get in the way, hurdles such as managed care, Medicare, Health Maintenance Organizations, Social Security, and historical and current oppressive mentalities on the part of nondisabled persons.
The purpose of this letter is to raise your awareness of a dangerous situation that is costing lives and causing needless suffering among patients and residents of persons in Nursing Homes, In-Home care situations, and Hospitals in our State. At this time, in our State and elsewhere in our nation, Nursing Facilities are allowed to staff their facilities according to a, “warm-body,” theory which accepts a level of Nursing and Certified Nursing Assistant staff as, “adequate,” based on the ratio of numbers of residents per numbers of medical staff.
We are all aware that there is a Health Care Crisis in America today, but are we aware of the crisis among the very base of our providers, the Nurses and Nursing Assistants who are the, “hands-on,” caregivers to the patients in our Nation? Apparently not – we continue to staff our medical facilities at dangerously low levels, based on a system which places Nurses and Nursing Assistant on the floors of Hospitals and Long-Term Care facilities in ratio to the numbers of patients instead of by patient needs, or their, “acuity.”
