| Maturing market: Care housing for seniors is bucking local ...
Players big and small are crowding into long-term senior care housing. Firms offering independent and assisted living are multiplying. This rush has prompted some to wonder if the industry is creating a glut in the north state that eventually could force out the smaller businesses, ultimately limiting customer choice. Others are confident that Redding's star as a lifestyle destination is only beginning to rise. The budding senior housing market will be big enough for everyone, as more retiring baby boomers choose to live in the north state as they ponder long-term care for their aging parents and themselves. The Redding area currently offers roughly 600 beds for seniors who may need some help with their daily care but still enjoy active lives. That supply of beds could bulge by more than 300 in the next few years.
Ministers to link elderly cash to inflation
They also set out on a collision course with Whitehall, making a claim for £30m in annual welfare payments that have not been paid to older Scots for the past five years. Lord Sutherland of Houndwood, former principal of Edinburgh University, has agreed to review the workings of free long-term care for the elderly. His assessment of the level and distribution of resources to the local authorities that implement the policy could recommend that the payments should be uprated by the five years of inflation since the levels were last set, at the time the policy was introduced. He can also use the review to further his campaign for the Westminster government to adopt similar findings from his 1999 report into elderly care. With a committee that is yet to be appointed, he is expected to report by next March, with an interim report this September.
Infectious Disease Doctors Urge Congress To Cover Home Infusion ...
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) is urging Congress to support the Medicare Home Infusion Therapy Coverage Act of 2007 (H.R. 2567), bipartisan legislation introduced by Reps. Eliot Engel (D-NY), Kay Granger (R-TX), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Charles Pickering (R-MS), Randy Kuhl (R-NY), and John Tierney (D-MA). The long-awaited bill would extend coverage for home infusion services to Medicare beneficiaries - a benefit enjoyed by most patients in the private sector.
When Congress passed the Medicare Modernization Act in 2003, lawmakers added coverage for home infusion drugs including antibiotics, antivirals, and antifungal drugs, which are prescribed for patients with serious infections, such as bone and skin infections, heart infections, pneumonia, and urinary tract infections.
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