On Friday, I learned that a member of my weekly LOUD Crowd® class was in Hospice. “Suddenly” he declined, his wife told me in an email. This morning, he passed away at home. It’s odd to think of death as coming “suddenly” when someone has a Parkinson’s diagnosis,...
Recently I asked readers to contact their legislators and request Medicare coverage for speech therapy via telehealth. Telepractice has been utilized for quite a few years by speech-language pathologists, and numerous published studies have show that therapy delivered...
Our voice is as distinctive as a fingerprint, and it reveals all: your age, or at least how old you sound, your physical and emotional well being, and mood. An “old” or sick sounding voice on an otherwise vibrant older person can be a distraction to listeners who are...
This morning I made a list of patients I need to contact to check on how they’re doing since closing my office at the beginning of April due to the COVID 19 pandemic. My patients are all Medicare beneficiaries who are enrolled in speech and/or swallowing...
I want to invite readers to join a free webinar to be held this afternoon, April 9, 2020 at 3pm. Register: https://my.demio.com/ref/BSKak8B9aPmzKNqt Kevin Longoria, Clinical Exercise Physiologist and Chief Science Officer at Biostrap, & Dr. Nina Bausek, Geneticist...
I hope this email finds everyone home and in good health. We are all experiencing one of the most challenging times in our country, and as a healthcare provider, I am proud of the work we do, but also saddened by the suffering of some of my colleauges, their patients...
