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This guide details clinical and reimbursement criteria, Medicare’s documentation expectations, and billing codes to help ensure proper coverage for wound-related durable medical equipment (DME), including surgical dressings, support surfaces, hospital beds, and negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT). This can be downloaded to help educate referral sources.

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This guide offers quick access to Medicare’s coverage rules, reimbursement criteria, and documentation needs across multiple categories of home medical equipment, including commodes, patient lifts, mobility aids, oxygen therapy, PAP/RAD devices, and more. This can be downloaded to help educate referral sources.

NOTE: Unit price includes shipping to a single location.  Please allow 7-10 business days to process your order.

This course provides an overview of how aging affects memory.

This course is the first in a series of courses that examines the aging process and its effects on the human body.

This course reviews the relationship between aging and stroke.

This course will explain how the aging process contributes to changes in the cardiovascular system.

This course provides an overview of how aging affects mobility, including risk factors, complications and dangers of immobility, and details how therapeutic activities can lessen mobility problems. 

This course reviews the relationship between aging and multiple sclerosis.

This course will explain how the aging process contributes to chronic kidney disease.

VGM Live at Home is proud to introduce our first bundled release of our Certified Master CEAC Program. This bundle includes :  Residential Ramp Consultant (R.R.C) , Residential Grab Bar Specialist (R.G.B.S.) , Stair Lift Consultant (S.L.C.), Platform Lift Consultant (P.L.C), Introduction to Residential Accessible Bathroom Consultant (RABC), and the Introduction to Residential Transfer Lift Specialist (RTLS) Program courses.

The participant will enhance their understanding of diseases, chronic illnesses, and mental issues that affect the older adult and discuss ways to promote healthy aging.

Managing diabetes in the elderly presents many challenges. This course provides an overview of those challenges and how they can be met.

This course provides an overview of the causes and risk factors, signs and symptoms, and diagnosis and treatment of depression in the elderly population.

This course provides an overview of ethnogeriatrics which is the influence of ethnicity and culture on the health and well-being of older adults.

Nurses and other caregivers working with older adults will review and update their knowledge of medications commonly misused by the aging population and potential problems that can occur.

While effective communication should be a focus of home medical equipment specialists with all ages of patients, special attention should be paid to working with older adults as an increase in age can bring about medical conditions that may require more patience and an adjustment in how one provides and receives medical information. This course includes tips on how to better facilitate communication with older adult populations.

This course reviews the effects, causes and treatment options of sleep disorders among the elderly population.

Purpose:  This is the second part of a three-part series exploring cultures, ethnicities, age-appropriate care, and historical issues that affect the present health care climate. ALL115a covers cultural competency in health care, ALL115b highlights age-specific considerations in health care, and ALL115c addresses past and current issues of the health care industry, such as racism and discrimination, and how to respond as an individual and facility.

In this course, health care professionals will increase their understanding and skills in providing optimal care to individuals from varying age groups.

Nurses working with older adults will review and update their knowledge of adverse drug reactions and compliance/prescription issues that may affect the aging population.

Unique challenges can arise when performing perioperative care for older surgical patients. This course reviews the challenges of performing such care that all members of a patient’s health care team should be aware.

Health care professionals working in any setting will increase their understanding and skills in providing optimal care to patients from diverse cultures, religious beliefs, and varying age groups.

Nurses working with older adults will review and update their knowledge of how medications can affect the elderly.

The direct care worker will better understand depression and how it affects the aging population.

Health care professionals working in any setting will increase their understanding and skills in providing optimal care to patients from diverse cultures, religious beliefs, and varying age groups.

The National Continuing Education Review Service (NCERS) of the National Association of Long Term Care Administrator Boards (NAB) has approved the above named program for continuing education credit.

This course contains information about the prevalence and results of falls, and provides information that HME providers can share with their older clients to minimize the risk of falling.