Certification Awarded to Elder Care Businesses

The Seniors Approved Certification Has Recently Been Awarded to Qualified Elder Care Businesses

Cleveland OH: Quality Care Options, LLC announces newly added Certified Senior Approved Services to their exclusive network of resources. Each of businesses serving senior citizen and his or her adult child or caregiver received Certification based on actual feedback derived from elder care industry's first consumer-driven survey process.

Quality Care Options (www.qualityeldercare.com) and its sister company Seniors Approve Free Web Community (www.seniorsapprove.com) advocates for right of all seniors to receive excellent care and to most importantly, remain safe in receiving of that care. QCO links seniors (and their family members) to elder care businesses that hold a 90% or higher 'senior' approval rating.

The current and past clients (seniors) of each service provider listed within Seniors Approve Network of Services have been surveyed. The survey, compliant with HIPAA, allows consumer of elder care services to report, confidentially, their experiences with a particular business.

"Who better to attest to quality care than senior actually using service?" offers Barbara Mascio, founder of Quality Care Options.

The following businesses are now Certified as a Senior Approved Service:

• Comfort Keepers, Home Care Service, South Cleveland
• Comfort Keepers, Home Care Service, Elyria
• Advanced Laser Solutions, Garfield Hts
• Legacy Village, Assisted Living, Twinsburg
• Northcoast Conflict Solutions, Elder Mediation, Independence
• Occasional Help For Seniors, Handyman & Cleaning, Cleveland
• Helping Hands Home Care, Home Care Service, Stow
• Infinity Home Care, Home Care Service, Lakewood
• Docuprep, Affordable Legal Documentation, PA
• M&M Partnership, Seniors Sharing a Home, Shaker Hts
• Sunrise of Rocky River, Assisted Living and Alzheimer's Care, Rocky River
• Alterra Wynwood, Assisted Living, Westlake
• Seniors Home Advantage, Home Care Service, Solon
• Brighton Gardens, Assisted Living and Alzheimer's Care, Westlake
• Life Quest, Home Medical Supplies & Equipment, Euclid
• S.A.R.A.H. Adult Day Services, Strongsville
• Wales Consulting, Do-It-Now (an organizational book for families), Hartville
• Birch Financial, Bill-Paying Service, Chagrin Falls
• Raymond James Financial, Elder Financial Planning, Long-Term Care Health Insurance, Willoughby

I came across an article written by Dr. Ray Strand, a family practitioner and author of several books including What Your Doctor Doesn’t know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You; Releasing Fat; Developing Healthy Lifestyles That Have a Side-effect of Permanent Fat Loss; and Bionutrition: The Amazing Health Benefits of Vitamin Supplements, to name a few. I would like to share with you what Dr. Strand has to say about “the eight deadly diseases that are sending people to an early grave”.

Deadly Disease Number 1: Heart Disease Truth: Coronary artery disease is number one killer in industrialized nations today, accounting for over 7.2 million deaths a year.

Heart disease is an inflammatory disease of artery, not a disease of cholesterol. Over half of patients who suffer a heart attack have normal cholesterol levels. The underlying cause of inflammation of artery is “oxidized” LDL cholesterol, homocysteine, along with excessive free radicals caused by hypertension, diabetes, cigarette smoking, fatty meals, and elevated insulin levels. All of these causes inflammation of artery are either eliminated or reduced by use of nutritional supplementation.

Deadly Disease Number 2: Cancer Truth: 8.6 million people die of cancer yearly.

In spite of great advances in diagnosis and treat of cancer, eventual outcome is too often a very difficult and painful death. Medical literature increasingly supports fact that cancer develops from damage to DNA of cells by unstable molecules over course of 10 to 20 years.

Deadly Disease Number 3: Stroke Truth: 5.5 million people die from stroke every year.

Stroke occurs suddenly and usually without warning. Dr. Meir Stampfer reported in New England Journal of Medicine in 1995 that 15 percent of all strokes could be related to elevated homocysteine, a by-product of protein metabolism that is elevated in individuals who have low levels of folic acid and vitamins B6 and B12.

Deadly Disease Number 4: Diabetes Truth: 194 million people suffer from diabetes, and it is estimated to rise to 300 million by year 2025.