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What is the meaning of “National Wear Red Day” ?

​In 2003, the American Heart Association and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute embarked on National Wear Red Day for women. This is a massive national awareness day for heart disease and strokes in women. The first Friday of Febuary has been designated to encourage men and women to wear red as a symbol of […]

Medical equipment provider’s are “the tail of the health care dog”

Despite the fact that most Americans would like to spend their retirement years living in their own home, many are forced into hospitals, extended care facilities, nursing homes or retirement communities. Some of these are great, some less than desirable. The truth is that home medical equipment such as wheelchairs, ramps, bathroom aids, and stairlifts […]