NEW Medicare Breakthrough for Nursing Homes!! Mind-Body and Holistic Treatments, For the Very First Time, Are NOW Available to the Residents of Long Term Care Facilities through Medicare!... the secret is out.... FACILITIES SHOULD ACT NOW TO TRIGGER THIS
This year, for the very first time, Medicare is now paying approved professionals to provide revolutionary mind-body and holistic medical treatments to residents of long term care facilities. These tested modalities can be remarkably effective, as an adjunct, for all the diseases of aging; from incontinence to Parkinsons to diabetes... and on and on;these are proven treatments of medical-health psychology; and are now reimbursable when provided by Medicare-approved psychologists. These innovative techniques can speed recovery, slow deterioration, and dramatically boost quality of life and health. And finally they are available to the residents of forward-looking nursing homes!
(PRWEB) August 28, 2002
In 2002, for the first time, Medicare provides time-tested mind-body treatments for nursing home residents. These advanced techniques can enhance treatment compliance, speed recovery, slow physical deterioration, and boost quality of life. Some nursing homes already have clinical psychologists. But these psychologists usually have dealt exclusively with mental illnesses.
However, this new Medicare breakthrough has made the elite specialty of clinical health psychology now available to nursing homes and other long term care facilities. Health psychologists target the symptoms of residents' physical illnesses, from Parkinsons Disease to diabetes to cancer, to all diseases of aging. Proven mind-body and holistic techniques serve as key catalysts and adjunctive treatments; they help patients control symptoms, adopt health-optimizing attitudes and reduce frustration about body and lifestyle losses. They also include goal-oriented family counseling to coach relatives in little-known ways to support the achievement of resident treatment targets. Some of the proven techniques developed by clinical health psychologists include: non-drug pain management, environmental adjustment consultation, treatment compliance coaching, illness and treatment education, relaxation and stress-reduction training, lifestyle expectation restructuring, health-optimizing value education, nurse-physician problem-solving consults, targeted family consultations...on and on...but the list doesn't stop there.
The treasury of techniques now available also include counseling to provide the troubled resident with a rewarding stable identity, in spite of a deteriorating unstable body; self-esteem enhancement in spite of burgeoning powerlessness; and competance-building in spite of a chronic and crushing dependence on others. Importantly, clinical health psychologists can dramatically lighten the load on doctors and staff. They provide rigorously tested adjunct techniques which rapidly accelerate the treatment already in place. Not only do these state-of-the-art technologies boost resident quality of life, but administrators can advertise them as evidence of the facilities' COMPREHENSIVE CARE to new prospects...and because health psychologists bill residents insurance independently, ALL THIS IS AT NO COST TO THE FACILITY! Remember, ordinary nursing home psychologists just deal with mental disorders. But to get these NEWLY AVAILABLE resources for ALL ILLNESSES of aging you need the advanced specialized tools of state-of-the-art health-medical psychology.
THEY'RE YOURS JUST FOR THE ASKING...all you need to do is ACT TO TRIGGER THE BENEFIT! It's easy. To get all the details, call The Health Psychology 24 Hr INFOLINE. CALL NOW:1-847 516-1454; or write: Dr. M. Sherri, 121 Brookbridge Rd, Cary, IL 60013. It couldn't be easier.
