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Press release

Stomp Parkinson’s Disease For A Cure, Give it the Boot, will meet at Arabella at 1 p.m. at 413 Gibson Road in Athens on Nov. 12. Guest speaker will be Dr. Maria De Leon, author of “Parkinson’s Diva: A Woman’s Guide to Parkinson’s Disease.” Dr. De Lean was also featured in the September issue of Family Circle Magazine. Comfort Keepers is a leading provider of Ft Lauderdale in-home senior care services, and is one of the top home care agencies in the area. Our expert caregivers provide customized care plans that may include personal care and companionship-homemaker services. We help seniors and other adults live an independent, quality life. Comfortkeepers in Ft Lauderdale gives expert advice to all of its clients. Access to state of the art health care services is something we can all agree would be a good thing for this country. Experiencing a serious illness is one of life’s major challenges and to face it without the means to pay for it is positively frightening. But as we shall see, once we know the facts, we will find that achieving this goal will not be easy without our individual contribution. What does health care insurance have to do with health care costs? Its impact on health care costs has been, and remains to this day, absolutely enormous. Investigations relating to health care fraud activity are reportedly at an all time high, and will continue to flourish with the advent of new working groups, task forces and other fraud-fighting activity that existence depends on the development and investigation of health care fraud cases. Simply put, the investigation of health care fraud consists of proving that the provider engaged in an intentional deception or misrepresentation (of material fact) that resulted, or could have resulted, in an unauthorized payment. For more details regarding to heathcare fraud attorney, you can read this blog post from Healthcare Fraud Group llc.

When health insurance for individuals and families emerged as a means for corporations to escape wage freezes and to attract and retain employees after World War II, almost overnight a great pool of money became available to pay for health care. Money, as a result of the availability of billions of dollars from health insurance pools, encouraged an innovative America to increase medical research efforts. More Americans became insured not only through private, employer sponsored health insurance but through increased government funding that created Medicare and Medicaid (1965). In addition funding became available for expanded veterans health care benefits. Finding a cure for almost anything has consequently become very lucrative. This is also the primary reason for the vast array of treatments we have available today. At this point, let’s turn to the key questions that will lead us into a review and hopefully a better understanding of the health care reform proposals in the news today. Is the current trajectory of U.S. health care spending sustainable? Can America maintain its world competitiveness when 16%, heading for 20% of our gross national product is being spent on health care? What are the other industrialized countries spending on health care and is it even close to these numbers? When we add politics and an election year to the debate, information to help us answer these questions become critical. We need to spend some effort in understanding health care and sorting out how we think about it. Properly armed we can more intelligently determine whether certain health care proposals might solve or worsen some of these problems. What can be done about the challenges? How can we as individuals contribute to the solutions?

Please come and learn all about Parkinson’s from Maria as she developed young Onset Parkinson’s when her daughter was 4 years of age and needed Home Care Assistance. She was as practicing neurologist which specialized in movement disorders, wife and mother when she started to have problems of her own, who is also a strong advocate for Parkinson’s Disease research. Now, for the rest of the story, come and listen to her speak and bring your questions for the rest of her story.

Some symptoms of Parkinson’s are tremors, slow movement and stiffness, freezing of gait, postural instability, hallucinations, shrinkage of handwriting, arm swing, constipation, urinary urgency, excessive saliva and dementia to start. If you are suffering from Parkinson’s or are a caregiver, family member or friend needing more information on this incurable disease, please attend this meeting. For more information, please contact Jean Everett at 903-681-4167.

Labor of Love press release

Early on Oct. 17, a beautiful Saturday morning, a team of Athens Rotary Club members and five young men from the TVCC cheer team joined forces with the Labor of Love to build a 37-foot-long wheelchair ramp for Mr. Weston Lane. Weston has been in and out of hospitals for the last four years in poor health. Three months ago it was discovered that he has a rare form of cancer. Gloria and Weston were married in 2002, between them they have two daughters, Nicole and Daria, and one son, Joseph. Gloria was born and raised in Malakoff on the exact same property where the family home now sits.

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