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Organize Your Loved Ones Health

by admin on February 10, 2010

Be Prepared Organize your Health

Have you wondered about what if? I use to wonder what if all the time. What if something happened to my son and no one knew what his allergies were? Now that he is older and has grown out of “his situation” I have become lax. But now we have to go into that what if stage again. My son is getting older and this summer will be in another state without me (Mom). So how am I going to prepare him for that just in case possibility? I am going to prepare my son by organizing and filling in a Medic Tag so he can put it on his key ring and have his health records with him all the time. I will feel a little more at ease. Of course I will text, email and talk with him more then he probably needs but for that just in case, I will and he will be prepared by being organized.

Medic Tag

MedicTag is the original USB medic alert tag designed for emergency medic information and alert.

Medical alert bracelets, medic ID tags and medi alert jewelry have limited information available. A MedicTag USB medical alert and medic ID tag stores and has instant access to all your medical and emergency information.

In an emergency your medical information is critical to an accurate, timely and possibly life saving diagnosis.

MedicTag is a digital USB personal medical alert and information device that combines your emergency information with today’s technology. A digital memory chip is used to store all your information on the easy to use MedicTag medical history and alert form and the distinctive styling and bright logo will alert medic personnel to your special needs and existing medical conditions.

MedicTag is useful for many conditions including

• ADD/ADHD
• Anemia
• Ankylosing Spondylitis
• Asthma
• Autism
• Blood thinners – Coumadin, warfarin
• Cancer patients
• Cardiac patients
• Cerebral Palsy
• Clinical trial patients
• Diabetes
• Emphysema

• Epilepsy, seizures
• Food, insect and medicine allergies
• Hearing, sight and mentally impaired
• Hypertension
• Mental health patients
• Multiple medications
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Parkinson’s Disease
• Rare diseases
• Special needs children
• Stroke risk
• Surgery, transplant patients

And caregivers for people who live with many of these conditions

Healthcare providers must often either start from scratch or act blindly because they don’t have the patient’s relevant past history, allergies, or medications.

With MedicTag, safety of care will be improved as patients and doctors benefit from immediate access to the patients’ list of conditions, medications and dosages, allowing all parties to avoid the sometimes dangerous duplication of medications and other kinds of errors associated with incomplete information.

MedicTag is simple to use. Plug it into the USB port on your computer to start the program, there is nothing to install, it’s all on the MedicTag. Fill in the blanks with as much, or as little information as you need, click on “save” and you are done.

It requires very little computer skill to use, on most systems it is “plug and play” and is a simple fill in the blanks format. It is compatible with 99.9% of the home and office computer systems in use today and requires only Windows and MS Word to fill out the information form. And no special software is needed to read it, all Windows operating systems include WordPad which can read the information form.

You can also change your information, medications, doctors and any other health information whenever you need to so your information is always easy to keep up to date.

Convenient  and easy to carry on a key ring you can keep it with you all the time. FEMA and the Red Cross both recommend that your emergency information, including medications and emergency contacts, be part of your disaster preparation kit. In case of an emergency evacuation due to hurricane or flood that information is much more likely to be available if you have it on your key ring.

Are you the caregiver for an aging loved one or other family member? Medic Tag can consolidate all their medical information into one form that’s easy to access.

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Who Takes Care Of The Caregiver?

by admin on May 5, 2008

By Sheila Warnock
WHO TAKES CARE OF THE CAREGIVER?

People facing a medical crisis try to “circle the wagons” and tough it out. The result is usually caregiver burnout. While the doctors, nurses, therapists and medical community take care of the patient and the illness, the needs of the caregiver are often overlooked. Who will drive the kids to school? How can we get the shopping done? How do we schedule and keep doctors’ appointments? Ordinary tasks quickly turn into major needs-and soon overwhelm the primary caregiver.

There is a way to make a difference…SHARE THE CARETM

Share The Care is a cost effective, supportive, community-based group caregiving model born out of the experience of 12 people (mostly strangers to each other) who came together and stayed together for over three years to care for a friend with terminal cancer. Two of them wrote the book so others wouldn’t have to reinvent the wheel.
It’s called Share The Care, How to Organize a Group to Care for Someone Who Is Seriously Ill, Simon & Schuster (1995, 2004)

Share The Care details how ordinary people can pool their talents, time and resources and create a “caregiving family” to help someone they know facing a health or medical crisis. A Share The Care group supports not only the person in need but their entire family as well. And if someone has no family nearby the group becomes “family.” It’s a sure way of turning offers of “What can I do to help?” into positive action.

A Share The Care group can help regardless of the situation-whether the person (or child) is in need of short-term rehabilitation, suffering from a long-term or terminal illness, or someone is just facing the increased difficulties associated with aging. For example, a church group in Texas recently organized to help a new family in town with the care of their newborn quadruplets.

The model has served as a blueprint for groups in at least 38 states, as well as internationally in Canada, Iceland, and Israel. In May 2005, The Library Journal cited it as “One of the best consumer health books of 2004.” Share The Care is also a winner of Today’s Caregiver magazine’s 2008 Caregiver Friendly Award.

The mission of ShareThecaregiving, Inc. (a 501c3 organization) is to promote and educate people about group caregiving. We offer Share The Care trainings, lectures and customized workshops for health professionals, clergy and caregivers. Our web site www.sharethecare.org provides in-depth information about the model. Visitors can read about groups, find helpful resources, link to purchase the book, download all the forms in the book, and provide feedback on their experiences through a questionnaire. We offer weekday e-mail, and phone support to caregivers and health professionals.

Donations can be made through Network for Good on our web site. Your gifts help us cover the costs of producing our educational materials. And we’d love to know if you start a Share The Care group to help someone in need.

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