Kidneys for sale: Iranian organ donation.
"WHAT CAN IRAN teach us about good governance?" is not a question often posed in Washington. But according to Benjamin Hippen, a transplant nephrologist in North Carolina, the Iranians have managed to do something American policy makers have long thought impossible: They've found kidneys for every single citizen in...

Providing baby boomers with long-term care requires innovation.
Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Terry Coplin For The Register-Guard At age 58, I've got all the things a successful baby boomer would want: grown kids, a complete Rolling Stones compact disc collection and an adrenaline-fueled performance motorcycle with chrome in just the right places. However,...

Long Term Health Care: Providing a Spectrum of Services to the Aged.
While "four alarm" issues, such as termination of medical interventions, once dominated discussion of bioethics and aging, there is now increasing recognition of "one alarm" issues, of which long-term e policy and decisionmaking are perhaps the most significant. For anyone with a scholar's or practitioners interest in ethical issues...

The Pepper Commission on long-term health care.
The Pepper Commission Report will be available from the U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D.C. 20401, (202) 783-3238 and at some public libraries. Readers can also contact The Pepper Commission (140 Cannon House Building, Washington, D.C. 20515, (202) 225-9950; Fax (202) 225-6653) for more information. ...

HSAs Receive a Major Opportunity From Congress.
New Improvements Allow Consumers to Plan for Future Health Care and Long-term Care Needs WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Millions of consumers will have access to a more flexible health savings account (HSA) as part of their health insurance coverage in 2007 thanks to key legislative improvements...

Meeting the need for personal care among the elderly: does Medicaid home care spending matter?
The U.S. Census (2004) projects that the population older than age 65 years will double from 31 to 62 million people between 2000 and 2030 as the baby boom generation ages. As a consequence, the population needing long-term care--help with personal care and supportive services needed because of disability--is...

Examining the scope of multibusiness health care firms: implications for strategy and financial performance.
Over the past several decades, large, complex multibusiness health care firms, more commonly known as organized or integrated delivery systems, have formed primarily through related horizontal and vertical scope expansions across the health care value chain (Robinson 1996; Gaynor and Haas-Wilson 1999; Bazzoli et al. 2001; Friedman and Goes...

St. Camillus Health Care Evening at the Mansion.
St. Camillus Health Center in Whitinsville sponsored its second annual Evening in the Mansion wine tasting fundraiser in the Father Turci Manor, located on the health center campus. Gourmet food and desserts were served as guests enjoyed the sounds of classical music by the Whitinsville Christian School String Quartet....

Diabetes and adult day health services.
The increase in diabetes and related comorbid conditions among older adults has generated greater demand for health care services. Approximately 18.3 percent (8.6 million) of the U.S. population age 60 and older has diabetes (American Diabetes Association [ADA], 2005).This population is more likely to experience heart attacks, strokes, hypertension,...

Personal data records pose legal, security issues.
BALTIMORE -- Personal health records may be the next step in the evolution of health information technology, but these electronic documents raise several legal and security issues for long-term care facilities. "PHRs might in fact have the opportunity to leapfrog over things that are happening in electronic...