My Final Days, a Reverie

A vision for my future is to spend my final days in a hospital bed at home. In this dream, I would experience something very similar to what I experience now in a hospital or nursing home….but a little better. I would still be able to go to a hospital or skilled nursing facility if [...]

The Home Care Agency of the 21st Century (Part 2)

By Mark Shea, MCDM The Home Care Agency of the 21st Century will be the same as it is now in very many ways and in the most important way. We provide human companionship, human care, human assistance, and most importantly, human touch. Humans will die without these things. We not only crave the companionship, [...]

The Home Care Agency of the 21st Century (Part 1)

By Mark Shea, MCDM I try to think of every link that I create on the Web as a promise. Please don’t go away. This really is an essay about the Home Care Agency of the 21st Century.

1/1/2011: The Beginning of the End for Healthcare as We Know It

By Mark Shea, MCDM A wave of change has arrived for the health care industry. Even the most powerful representatives of health care, government and business will be unable to stop this incoming tide. I can say this with relative certainty because I am a Baby Boomer. 79 million people, 26% of the US population, [...]