WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT ELDERCIDE OR ELDERPRIDE ... Health Care for All by Jerry Rhoads

WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT ELDERCIDE OR ELDERPRIDE ... Health Care for All by Jerry Rhoads The horrors of this corrupt and soon to be bankrupt system. But no one—not authors or politicians or providers or the medical community—has offered a proven, practical, and workable solution. Until now. Restore Elder Pride examines this debilitating problem that will continue to plague most Americans until it is fixed. History shows that nursing home abuse is directly linked to the manner in which these facilities are paid for their work. It is a cruel paradox that the federal government is both the beneficent provider of reimbursement dollars and the choke point for their disbursement. This very timely book offers practical, proven solutions for fixing the problem: a field-tested system that is already in use and has a proven track record for delivering successful outcomes to patients and caregivers. Each political election avoids the comprA Paradigm SHIFT (Self-Health Insurance Funding Trust) Cut Illness Cost, Improve Wellness Outcomes of the Elderly patients in health care facilities. The book proposes Shifting the Paradigm away from Government to Self-Health practices and Self-Health Funding Trusts for individuals to manage their own expenditures and select their own providers. Obama Care will not solve the pressing problems of over medication of the elderly, funding the pursuit and treatment of illnesses and the rationing out of the funding for the disabled and chronically ill patients.Self-Health is defined as each individual accepting responsibility for their own decisions that affect their health care costs. By funding the costs through withholding from their salaries and spending the funds on preventive health measures and preservation of their own future health care needs; expenditures for the Greater Good are reduced by 40% and outcomes improved 100%. Remedy Eldercide and Restore Elder Pride are more than eye-popping, heart-stopping words coined to help draw attention to this book. Eldercide in practice is the systematic institutionalization of the elderly in nursing homes; a system that does little more than warehouse patients who receive substandard and inappropriate care that prematurely decertifies many and abuses many more. In the process, Eldercide wastes productive lives and clearly does not meet America’s needs as an aging society in pursuit of a quality of life. Restoring Elder Pride is the solution to that problem; a solution that provides and pays for restorative care for these same patients and rewards the caregivers for their efforts or they will be facing empty beds. No one wants to live in a nursing home. Everyone knows if you go in, you rarely come out. It is the place to go die not live. Even the nursing home tag line does not fool anyone. That is why there are no respectable flagships, acknowledged leaders or standard bearer in the industry, However, clearly 313 million Americans will be touched by this paradox at some point in their lives. Most sooner than later with aging and chronic illness boring down on all of us. Exposes’ on the nursing home industry are popular for shedding light onehensive solution to the problems of healthcare delivery because the current payment methods are supported by providers who fund the political process but don’t want to be held accountable for results. So healthcare and eldercare are bound to be major issues, and this book is sure to be a catalyst for discussion and change. Just look at the voting pool. Seventy-seven million baby boomers, that grew up expecting the best of everything, are turning 60 this decade. If the nursing home industry does not change they can only expect the worst. About 36 million people have joined AARP because they want bargaining power, 1.7 million people are already institutionalized in nursing homes and are facing extinction, and millions more will have to face the possibility of one day joining the list of system victims.