Category: Caring for Older Adults

Take Control of Your Healthcare Experiences

posted May 2019 by Dianne Savastano

Twice during the past two months, I delivered a presentation titled, “Navigating the changing healthcare system.” Once in the form of a webinar and once in front of a live audience. Within it, I share several strategies, one of which is to prepare and use a Personal Healthcare File that includes a document titled, “Medical… Read on…

Recommendations for Managing Your Insurance Company

posted January 2019 by Dianne Savastano

Last week, I was invited to provide a 10-minute presentation about Healthassist services to a lunchtime meeting of the Entrepreneurial Women’s Club. I began by asking the audience if anyone had ever experienced frustration with the healthcare system. There were lots of sighs and chuckles, of course! When I asked for examples, a few… Read on…

Seeking Change From Our “Crazy” Healthcare System

posted December 2018 by Dianne Savastano

Last month, I attended the Simmons Women’s Leadership Conference in Dublin, Ireland. It was a wonderful experience and an opportunity to both renew old friendships and make new connections with interesting and accomplished women from around the world. Two conversations in particular — both healthcare related — made a strong impression on me for their… Read on…

How to Become a Leader of Your Own Healthcare

posted June 2018 by Dianne Savastano

During my graduate program in the spring of 1999, I conducted a research project. In doing so, I used the work of Kouzes and Posner and their Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership to analyze interviews I conducted with 13 women in senior management positions. The behaviors demonstrated by these women (all in Jacksonville Florida, where… Read on…

Mothers, Daughters, and Our Changing Relationships

posted May 2018 by Dianne Savastano

If you are among the one in five baby boomer women managing multiple roles of working professional, mother, wife, daughter, and caregiver, today’s newsletter is for and about you. Men, please take note. This impacts you too! Caregiving One definition of a caregiver is, “An unpaid person attending to the needs of a dependent adult,… Read on…

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Take Control of Your Healthcare Experiences
What Young People Need to Know About Insurance Coverage
Lessons From The Front Line: Common Health Care Questions and Answers
Uncoordinated Care — Tips for Managing When Healthcare Systems Don’t “Talk” to One Another
Recommendations for Managing Your Insurance Company