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SAP TV: SAP Elderly Care

An aging population is a problem in many countries of the world. The people living longer and therewith medicines have to treat with a growing number of chronically ill patients, says Dr. Randolph Gordon from Deloitte Consulting. SAP Global Health Care is working on innovative IT solutions – for example so-called in-home-devices – which help elderly people to live independently in their community as long as possible.
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Its goal is to develop a healthcare program which will provide the same quality of care for all required for all to be covered by it, no alternatives. Medicaid and Medicare are already terrible government funded health programs. Page 425 of the Obamacare bill mandates that the elderly and seriously ill undergo sessions to pressure them to choose death. Remember: Obama said the vote he MOST REGRETTED in the Senate was the vote to give Terri Schiavo one more chance to live. Obama wants DEATH for Americans and for America. Learn from the mistake of the UK: -Fewer Doctors -Less Advance Medical Technology -Waiting Lists -Selective Service/Care -Higher Taxes -Choices are made by the Government Medicaid and Medicare are great examples of the kind of health care the Government can provide; specific clinics and hospitals you may go to, limited pharmaceutical coverage (generic only, limited prescriptions in a month…), dental is NO LONGER covered by Medicaid as of July 2009, and many other debasements. With this we will be forfeiting, yet again, another one of our freedoms.
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Elder Care and Senior Service Marketers – The Secret Formula For Low Cost High Return Marketing

Most of us are probably not in a position to throw caution to the wind when it comes to our own marketing budget. Most of us want our marketing programs and strategies to work well the FIRST time we try them, and as we know, that’s always a gamble. Postcard mailings aren’t what they used to be. Direct mail doesn’t have the same impact. Seminar and workshops are expensive when food is served, and there’s never a guaranteed ROI on any of it.

Today there are other ways to market to your local community without spending tons of money. I will be the first to say that “in person networking” can never be replaced. The handshake and the ability to look someone in the eye is still just as important as ever. However, with a little web savvy, you can start those conversations a lot sooner, and educate a lot faster than ever before. Your reach has been enhanced by the power of the internet.

I’ve written about this before but the truth of the matter is that this method of marketing is not only the latest trend, but it is one that I expect will last. If you aren’t on this bandwagon yet, get on fast.

The important part of understanding today’s marketing techniques is that total transparency and relationship building with your target market is the key to success. Long gone are the days when we can hide behind our websites.

Transparency does not mean writing on Facebook, Twitter, or your blog about the latest fight you have with your spouse, or what the neighbor’s bad kids are up to. What it does mean is that you are willing to share enough about yourself and your value system to build a level of trust with your local community that is unmatched.The more “accessible” you are online, the more accessible your prospects will be and the more credibility you will gain. Talk about yourself as the owner, add a picture, talk about your personal experiences that lead you to this business, or to want to work with seniors. Be real. Be honest. Depending on who is reading this I would suggest that most seniors have lived longer than you. They have made more important decisions about their lives than you have, and most can spot dishonesty or half-truths a mile away. Transparency means earning the trust of a skeptical customer.

Social media marketing is free, and it works if done correctly. Plain and simple.

More baby-boomers and seniors are on the internet than ever before. Suddenly there are tons of articles out there talking about Grandpa on Facebook and MySpace.You need to be where your target market hangs out!

I’m about to give away my secret formula that will transform your business into a marketing machine. Yes, it takes a little time, sort of like a weekend painting project, but once it’s done, the time you spend updating your information takes just a couple of hours a week. (But you will be addicted to it, so I know you will spend more time than just 2 hours a week!)

Equipment

The equipment needed for a project like this is minimal- you might want to invest in a good headset with a microphone for your computer so that you can record audio or video if you like. Amazon carries a wide variety of headsets at a reasonable price.

Step 1: (The longest step in the process)

Setting up your online accounts may take a bit of time, but well worth the investment.

Here are the initial accounts I recommend for the fastest and most sustainable results:

Facebook Personal Account (using your own name, your picture, etc, no logos). Connections on Facebook personal are “friends”.

Facebook Business Page (this is where you use your logo and other business related items. Connections on your Facebook business page are “fans”.

Your Blog. Use WordPress to create a fast and easy blog that lets you get the message out about your area of expertise.Be sure to use their tutorials to learn how to use categories and tags to your advantage. Remember that when you post on your blog use titles that identify your location and your product or service. For instance, instead of a title like “April Events”, use “April Reverse Mortgage Seminars in Miami, FL”. See the difference? The search engines will play their hand in your favor with the second title.

Set up your Twitter account. I know, you aren’t really sure WHY you need twitter, but believe me some amazing deals go down every day because of good Twitter Posts (called tweets). Once you have your account set up, go to twellow and type in a search for people in your area. Start connecting with your local community by “Following” people in your town. They will follow you back.

LinkedIn is next. This is an important website for professionals because unlike Facebook, Twitter, and other places, LinkedIn is for the true business to business networking. Many connections that you make on LinkedIn will turn into in-person meetings down the road. Use it to your advantage. Be sure you use the “WordPress” feature to add your blog posts directly to your LinkedIn profile instantly. (Automation at it’s finest!)

Use FriendFeed to link everything together. FriendFeed ties all of your accounts together. Once you connect your accounts to FriendFeed, you will notice that when you make a blog post, it automatically shows up on Facebook, Twitter, Squidoo, and many other sites. This is another great lesson in automation. Once this step is completed your BLOG becomes the center HUB for all of your information that you want to share.

Squidoo is important because it serves as another “web page” about you and your business. You can link Twitter, Facebook, and your blog to your Squidoo page for extra backlinking and content.

Scribd is an odd little site that pulls a lot of punch. Turn all of your print marketing material into online material that works in your favor. Anything you have in your marketing arsenal that can be scanned or uploaded to Scribd is worth taking the time to load. When you place a document on Scribd be sure to title it the same way you would a blog post- make sure your business (elder care, home care, etc) and your location (St. Louis, MO) is in the headline or title area.

MerchantCircle- one of my current favorites! This group has done a really good job of creating a system that gets you noticed by the search engines FAST. Open a free account. They try to upsell you at every turn, but I dare say you can do just as well with a free account. The key to MerchantCircle is to make sure the name of your company portion is filled in with your line of business and your location. So instead of “Tom’s Financial Services and Loans”, a better business listing would be simply, “Reverse Mortgages, Findlay OH”. Another tip on MerchantCircle is to make sure that you put your blog posts on from your main blog right on to your MerchantCircle blog. The more content you have the faster you move up website page ranks.

Ideamarketers is a website where you can post articles about your niche. There is no waiting time for approval. Keep the same rules in mind- article titles should reference your location and your line of business.

GoArticles is a similar story. Post your articles, make sure they are over 500 words. Check for spelling errors etc.

The Senior List- This website is well optimized, and is going to be a much bigger player over the next 2 years. Get your free listing, or upgrade to paid. I recommend paid in this case, because it’s so cheap!

Finally, type in the words that you would use to search for a Reverse Mortgage provider in your area on Google. Who comes up first? What websites are showing on the first page and can you get listed on those? If so, go for it.

Step 2: This step is super important.

I’ve written about this before. If your website is homegrown, old, outdated, and has no “call to action”, then you will never have good lead conversion results. Spend the money or the time to update your website.

What is a “call to action”? A call to action means giving the viewer of your webpage one simple task that he or she must complete in order to get free information from you. “Enter Your Name and Email Address HERE to Access our Free Video Series on Elder Care Issues”

What free information? Free information like a short video series on Reverse Mortgages, a free report, a free DVD, a free audio CD, or downloadable MP3. Anything tangible will work. Eliminate FREE CONSULTATION from your vocabulary online and offline. Everyone gives a free consultation, this is not an attention grabber.

Look at your keywords, descriptions, and meta tags on your website. Make sure they reflect what you do and what you provide. If your website’s home page is labeled “Home” in your web browser, it’s not a wonder that your website isn’t getting any traffic.If this information seems like a foreign language, hire someone to help you. You need “SEO” for your website. (Search Engine Optimization) Without it, your website sucks.

Take off links to other websites that have nothing to do with you and links that don’t make you any money. Link to your own blog, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Placing a link to a local Senior Center is thoughtful, but ultimately stuff like this is cluttery and strips you of Page Rank. Link to your own ads, your own pages, and your own content. Don’t link to places that don’t make you money!

Step 3: Content: How often, How much?

All of your sites need to be updated with some amount of regularity. The question becomes, how often, and how much? Where do I find content?

Where to find content. You probably have some of your own content to begin with- look at your brochures, flyers, booklets etc. Plenty of content to get you started! However, most of us need to “borrow” content from someone else from time to time. There’s nothing wrong with that as long asyou follow some basic rules.

. Copying and pasting an article from the NYT or WSJ is illegal. You can’t just put other people’s copyright protected content on your website without their permissions. Getting permission can take forever and can be very expensive. So, the work-around for that is this: Post some thoughts on your blog about an article that you read online. Maybe you thought it was very timely and you want to share it with your community. Put some personal thoughts about it in your blog post and then copy and paste a LINK to that article. That way, readers will be directed straight to the NYT or WSJ website to read more. Posting your opinion is fine, and then a link. Posting the article itself is not ok. (unless you have permission)

. Another strategy is to use other authors’ content legally. On websites like EzineArticles their terms of service state that you can use any article on their website as long as you don’t change it, and always credit the author the way they do. The only restriction is that you can’t take a bunch of articles, put them in an ebook or free report and try to SELL that as a product.

. Other places to find content ideas are alltop.com and topsites.com

How often should you update? I would recommend updating your blog no less than once a week. Articles can be written once a month or once every two months. Search engines like fresh content, and so do consumers, so keep it current and relevant.Places like Scribd, Squidoo, and other websites can be updated every few months. In the past I have posted an article on Scribd with great keywords in the title, and it shows up for over a year on the first page of Google for my keyword selection.

How much content? Most article submission sites require that an article be at least 400 words, and although that’s not a requirement for your blog, you certainly don’t want your posts to be too short either.400 words is often the length of a long paragraph. You can do it.

What kind of content? In the elder care industry the best type of content is on elder care issues, but that can get old. Mix it up. Talk about Medicare, retirement issues, senior living, senior housing, prescription drug costs, traveling to visit grandkids, economic issues effecting seniors and more. You get the point. Be a good steward of your informational resources and share that content with purpose.

Tell Stories. Seniors like stories that explain how other people in their situation or their age group made a decision that changed their lives for the better. If you have stories that meet that criteria, tell them! If you have testimonials, show them off! If you have “evangelists”( Evangelists are people who believe in you, and talk about how wonderful you are.) out there who love your work, ask them to participate on your blog, or on Facebook. Interview them and use the audio or video to your advantage (with permission of course). Get the word out and let other people toot your horn. No one knows the trouble you have seen in and client’s eyes, only to have them smile on the day of closing, knowing that their problems are solved. You owe it to your community to tell stories like that. Who knows how many other people you might help along the way!

In summary, now is the time. Actually the time was a year ago, but it’s not too late to start building an online presence. Moving forward, this cost effective form of marketing will save you thousands in hard marketing costs. Companies that don’t have a Social Media Strategy or roadmap in place now, will most likely fall behind by Q3 or Q4 of this year. I can think of few things more expensive than having to play catch-up, especially in the social media category. You can’t “buy” relationships on the social web.

I have two favorite quotes that might help some of you understand the value of investing your time and energy in to building a following online.

1. “I work extremely hard doing what I love, mainly to ensure that I don’t have to work extremely hard doing what I hate.” – Hugh Mcleod

2. “Impact is not created by big budgets, impact is created by great marketing strategies that last have a lasting result.” – Valerie

Valerie VanBooven RN BSN is the owner of LTC Exp

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Mens health Reasons of erectile dysfunction

For mens health erectile dysfunction is one of the most difficult problems. Failures in the sexual life of mens health are more often called impotence. However, this is not quite true. Doctors consider impotence to be in which a man under any circumstances is unable to perform sexual act, which fortunately occurs not too often. But incidentally or occasionally emerging problems with erection should be called erectile dysfunction. Erectile dysfunction in mens health may be caused by several kinds of reasons – endocrine, medication, local, neurological and cardiovascular. All this belongs to an organic form of erectile dysfunction, when it is due to some change or disorder in the body. A psychological form of the erectile dysfunction is met much more often, when the normal sexual life is interfered only neuropsychiatric features of a man. In addition, almost always there is added a psychological component to problems with erectile dysfunction, caused by organic causes, which may surface after removing the root causes. Endocrine causes of erectile dysfunction. Endocrine causes of erectile dysfunction in mens health include primarily hypogonadism – a lack of function of sexual glands and low generation of the male hormone testosterone. Besides problems with erection in this state a man notices that his voice becomes high pitched, stopping of hair growth on face and body, the deposition of fat in the chest, thighs, buttocks. As a rule uch changes occur at severe disorders of the hormonal system of the human body, and in these cases there is always a need in an endocrinologist’s help. Fortunately, these diseases are relatively rare. Another endocrinological cause of erectile problems in mens health may be a pituitary tumor, one of the most important glands of a human body, which is located in the brain. If such a umor secretes a hormone called prolactin, no other changes in the body, except persistent erectile dysfunction, will not be observed. In this case for diagnostics it is necessary not only to examine he hormonal status of a man, but also perform a CT scan of the brain. To be continued…

Anti Healthcare Protest – Town Hall Health Care Reform Protesters – Tea Party Rally

Stag News footage of the Tea Party protesters from an 8/29/09 town hall meeting concerning health care reform. There’s also a “Billionaires for Wealthcare” cameo. ———————————————————————————————————– Featured On: Frontline: Obama’s Deal IFC’s Media Project The ED Show (MSNBC) The Huffington Post, The Ron Reagan Show (Air America), RandiRhodes.com, ThinkProgress.com, BradBlog.com, HotAir.com, DailyKOS.com ThePoliticalCarnival.blogspot.com, TrueBlueLiberal.com, PoliticusUSA.com, CounterPunch.org Key Words: Angry Spring Valley Republicans Democrats Nationalized Universal Public Option Marxist Hitler Abortion Nazi Brown Shirts Storm Troopers Acorn Sean Hannity Glen Beck Mike Savage Fox News CNN Bill O’Reilly Rationing Death Panels Euthanasia Aarp Seniors Private Government Spending Hidden Mandate Abortion Taxes Medicare Medicade Hospitals Health Angry Shouting Yelling Screaming Arguing Protest Unconstitutional Protesters Billionaires For Wealthcare Screaming Yelling Shouting Biting Off Finger Bitten Bites Tenthers Birthers Movement San Diego Tea Party Kick Off Rally October 25th 10/25 Teabaggers USS Constitution The Ed Show Psycho Talk MSNBC Stag News StagNews 912 Project
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Elder Abuse

This presentation by Dr. Laura Mosqueda, the Director of Geriatrics and recipient of the Ronald Reagan Endowed Chair at UC Irvine, describes the nature and scope of elder abuse, explaining some of the elderly’s vulnerabilities to mistreatment and poses some ethical questions on the topic. Series: The Coming of Age Lecture Series [5/2008] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 14638]

From www.witness.org and http | An Age for Justice; Elder Abuse in America, a video produced by the Elder Justice Now campaign, shows the families and individuals whose lives have been turned upside down by elder abuse. The video provides stark proof of the financial, emotional, and phsycial and psychological impact of the violence and abuse that an estimated five million Americans face every day. We hear from Vicki Bastion, 92, who installed a security gate inside her home to protect herself and what valuables she had left from her grandson and his gangrelated friends; Betty Beckles talks about her daughter beating her; Bob Lee tells us about his father, who was victimized by a paid caregiver causes depression that contributed to his death; and Pat Smith tells us about her husband, who has Alzheimers disease and was victimized financially by a young woman in Las Vegas who walked with 0000. The video was produced by the National Council on Aging and WITNESS, to shine the light on what one interviewee called a dark mark on our humanity. www.elderjusticenow.org
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Elder Abuse, Alzheimers and Our Aging Population

While taken seriously enough to be a legally reportable offense categorized alongside child abuse as either a misdemeanor or a felony – elder abuse does not seem to be taken as seriously by the public. Perhaps elders do not appear to be as helpless as children, but many times they are. And if helplessness is the yardstick, how does it account for the fact that domestic violence, which is not legally reportable, arouses more consternation and receives more attention and media coverage. Perhaps it’s because of national neglect in respecting, supporting and caring for elders in general. Whatever the explanation, elder abuse is on the rise and in the coming years will become pervasive due to an exploding elder population and the simultaneous increase in Alzheimer’s a disease that ravages the mind and turns elders into confused, unruly and dependent children.

What constitutes Elder Abuse? It is the physical, sexual, emotional and/or financial abuse of older people (over 65 years), usually by family members or caretakers. Abuse occurs in both isolated settings and in nursing institutions by staff members. “Whether the behavior is termed abusive, neglectful or exploitative will probably depend on how frequently the mistreatment occurs, its duration, severity and consequences.” (World Report on Violence and Health) It can happen for a variety of reasons a debilitating physical or mental illness and/or unwanted long term proximity to the elder which wears down the family member or caretaker as well as greed, anger or money problems in the case of financial abuse. It is a growing problem presently affecting hundreds of thousands of elderly people in the United States, yet it is estimated that only one out of 14 incidents are reported.

In 2010, the eldest baby boomers turned 65. During the next 30 years this population one of the largest segments of our society – is on track to live longer and more than double the cases of Alzheimer’s disease in the U.S. ”An estimated 10 million American baby boomers will develop Alzheimer’s in their lifetime placing enormous strains on the U.S. health-care system and the already overburdened network of caregivers, a new report predicts.” (Washington Post, 3/18/2008) Presently, there are 5 million Americans living with the disease not all of them elders. With this statistic in mind, elder abuse will increase exponentially. Why? Because people afflicted with this disease are difficult to take care of and easy to exploit.

A recent article in the New York Times entitled “The Financial Time Bomb of Longer Lives” focused on age related expenditures by government. The demographic shift that is taking place ” for the first time in history, people aged 65 and over are about to outnumber children under 5 ” means that this group is likely to shape the future of our national economic health and financial policies. Having to care for and support our elder family members will impact health care, housing, jobs, business policies, retirement and retirement funding, environmental issues and education. We will no longer be able to ignore this population. We are going to have to take them very seriously and begin to adjust our institutions or we will drown under the enormous economic and emotional burden they create. To begin with, we need to make psychological shifts so that elders are no longer perceived as a burden and potential debt load but as viable, valuable individuals with a lifetime of experience and wisdom to offer. This “attitude adjustment” will have the added benefit of reducing elder abuse.

To address the impact in more tangible ways we have to take a look at the institutions presently in place and begin to alter them so that they will more effectively accommodate this population. Health care, residential centers, community services, support groups, non-profit and private sector jobs, and education for caretakers to stem elder abuse are all areas where attention, growth and transformation are required. We can no longer stick our heads in the sand and continue to view elders’ needs as a personal problem confined to their immediate family. They are a significant part of our society. They are living longer, growing larger and the concurrent health and financial problems are looming – threatening to unravel our social fabric.

Roni Weisberg-Ross LMFT

2011

Big Book Of Exercises by Men’s Health and Women’s Health

www.TheFitDadSays.com I had the unique and kick-ass opportunity to have fat loss workouts featured in 2 books written by Adam Campbell from Men’s Health. Both are called The Big Book of Exercises and both are awesome.
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Kids Juice – Another Sweet Deception

www.mercola.com Internationally renowned natural health physician and Mercola.com founder Dr. Joseph Mercola discusses how major corporations are seeking to deceive you through slick marketing that their products are healthy just like kids juice sold in the grocery store.
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The First 5 California’s Hands-On Health Express is the first stop for everything related to children ages 0-5. See where the Hands-On Health Express will be visiting next at bit.ly This traveling exhibit features a variety of fun learning activities for young children that promote healthy habits and overall well-being. But it’s not just for kids! Parents and caregivers can also learn about children’s health, nutrition and school readiness to help them raise happy, healthy kids who are ready to learn. For more information about First 5 California, visit www.first5california.com.
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Health Newsletter – Creating Health-Focused Newsletters

Newsletters create awareness in the workplace. In today’s fast-paced information age, there is no better way to directly provide information to the workforce than through a topical newsletter. The focus of the workplace newsletter should be written to promote a healthy and productive base of employees. Specifically, a health newsletter is one which keys in on issues which affect, either positively or negatively, the health, well-being and productivity of the workforce itself. Potential topics might include: nutritional advice, workplace safety and behavior, indicate common stress triggers and how to alleviate them.

Writing a health newsletter is a fun practice. It affords the writer the chance to give advice or provide information that can change the behaviors and practices of the workforce for the better. It is important to plan the topics from the inside out, meaning one core article (i.e. the primary topic of the week, month or quarter) and secondary articles which either support the primary topic, or in some way provide supplementary advice. Educating the reader is pivotal. Be certain to bring the topics to life in some demonstrable fashion. Think of the newsletter as a service provider. Information should be fluid, easily found, and provide the reader with key insights that are either often overlooked or otherwise new to them.

Be creative and utilize visual aids in the health newsletter. A picture is worth a thousand words, so they say. Utilize graphs, flow-charts, or action-itemed pictures and elaborate on what it occurring with the visual tool. Be professional, but be certain to keep it simple. Excessive or haughty rhetoric turns readers off. Explain things in the same manner in which you would explain them verbally; but be certain to use proper grammar and spelling. There is no easier way to turn people off than to write poorly, and spell incorrectly.

Identifying with your readers takes practice. The goal of the health newsletter should be to build a base of readers who remain engaged with each subsequent issue. To assist in this, choose health topics that are interesting to the workforce. Ask them what interests them through interactive surveys in the early issues. Quote members of the reader base in articles, and cite your sources for additional reading of topics. Remember, the newsletter is about self-improvement in the workforce. Find out not only what they are interested in improving in regard to their health, wellness and productivity, but also what the management team of the workforce is interested in improving.

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