Recovering from an illness or injury can be a stressful time for both the patient and the patient’s family. That stress is compounded when chronic illness or disability is involved. Research has consistently shown that, when at all possible, recovering at home is the best option for the patient’s physical and mental health. Unfortunately, when the patient is elderly or too injured or ill to care for themselves, recovering at home is sometimes not an option.Finding friends or family members to assist with daily tasks is not always feasible. Even when family members are in a position to assist, the burden placed on them often puts a strain on their other family relationships, as well as their career and personal life. The alternative to home recovery-having their loved one leave their home to life in a medical facility or nursing home-is often a last and regretful resort.Luckily, there is another way for patients to remain in their beloved homes while receiving quality health care assistance: Home Health Care. Recent technological advance such as the internet and home infusion have made home health care available to many more patients than in the past. According to the National Association for Home Care, there are approximately 20,000 home health care providers today. While almost two-thirds of home care recipients are seniors over 65, home health care can assist anyone who requires some assistance while recovering from an illnesses or suffering a disability.Here are some benefits of home health care:o Seniors can continue living in their own familiar, comfortable environment
o Dignity and independence is maintained
o Patients receive one on one attention and care from the home health caregiver
o Home health care is often less expensive than care in nursing homes / assisted living facilities
o It relieves the burden placed on adult children to provide care for their aging parentsMost people prefer receiving care in a familiar setting where they are surrounded by love, patience and understanding people. Home health care providers help strengthen and increase the patient’s ability to care for themselves in their homes. They can also have a positive impact on a patient’s hopes and aspirations.

We used to say the two biggest lies are “The check is in the mail” and “It won’t hurt a bit.” Now, there is a third biggest lie, which is, “We have the best health care system in the world,” as Bill Clinton and George Bush uttered repeatedly during their respective terms. On the other hand, all of the standard measures of health care quality points to ours as being “the best substandard price-gouging health care system in the world”. One such measure is a comparison of cost and longevity. For example, Americans live an average of 77 years at a cost of $4,800 per person per year, while Spain, Canada and Japan respectively have life span-to-cost ratios of 79 years at $1,100, 81.5 years at $2,100, and 81 years at $2,000.Another measure is the infant death rate per one thousand live births and the U.S. has a rate comparable to third world countries at 6.9 compared to 5.3 in Denmark, 4.6 in France, 3.4 in Sweden and 3.2 in Japan. Additionally, the World Health Organization ranks the United States as 37th in the world, which puts us just behind Costa Rica.Therefore, we can see that the people of other countries get better outcomes for much less cost, suggesting that we Americans are paying more for inferior quality products and services. Although President Obama and other politicians acknowledge that health care is too expensive, they seem to be downplaying the fact that organized medicine has been giving the public a royal hosing for decades.Some of the problems with U.S. health care delivery as many other experts have also pointed out are as follows:Hospitals, nursing homes and clinics are unsafe with medical and nursing negligence being the fifth largest cause of death in the United States.Lack of access with 76 million uninsured (adding illegal aliens) and 106 million underinsured;Out of control cost with health care being 16% of gross domestic product (GDP) at $1 trillion which is a 250% increase over the last 25 years;Price gouging, with hospitals and doctors charging uninsured patients 1000% more than they accept from third party payers;HMO premium price gouging with high deductibles charging 300% more for individuals who purchase directly rather than through a group;Health care corporations are guilty of bilking billions of dollars from tax payers with fraudulent billing practices;Doctors perform unnecessary surgery with bogus diagnoses;H.M.O. members have to call for approval before going to emergency rooms with call centers outsourced to non-professional personnel in India and other countries;Administrative cost of DRG’s and CPT codes is $375 billion per year – 25% of total health care expenditures;Pharmaceutical companies obtain FDA approval for toxic drugs by paying large research grants to medical research facilities to achieve favorable results;Pharmaceutical companies pay bribes to physicians to prescribe their over-priced toxic drugs with tens of thousands falling prey to side effects.This short list of scams and rackets is really the largest, most harmful and costly criminal conspiracy in history. The perpetrators include HMO’s, pharmaceutical companies, hospital and physician groups and politicians. Additionally, with the political corruption achieved through expensive lobbying to defeat all attempts to impose regulatory standards, we can see why we pay such exorbitant prices for such shabby health care.To explain further, medical care has always been a business whereby the seller decides what the consumer will purchase and how much. Couple that control with fear of death, and the buyer will pay any price for care on any terms. Moreover, the people of our generation and the previous one grew up trusting our doctors and listening for the most part, to what they recommended. Then medicine evolved moving from cottage industry to commercial empires.However, to our disadvantage, we still had this mindset of “doctor knows best” for decades while the entire paradigm of ethics changed to acceptance of greedy commercialism with corporate executives capturing financial control of health care operations and finding ways to deny coverage for expensive services and equipment rentals with the pre-approval requirement fraud. Once a well-meaning physician prescribes a treatment, a non-professional decides whether it is medically necessary. Physicians, who became financially dependent upon their corporate “bosses”, would have to capitulate. Then Congress stepped in and gave legislative immunity to HMO’s from lawsuits for wrongful death and damages caused by withholding approval for life-sustaining treatment, thus leaving the doctors and hospitals holding the proverbial bag with malpractice lawsuits. The whole scenario was like putting a hungry shark in a pond to take care of the fish. The shark, knowing that if he swallows everyone in one gulp he won’t last long, says to each of his group members, “There is something wrong with the way your tail is functioning so I’m going to have to bite part of it off for your own good,” and the tasty fish replies, “You’re the doctor.”In conclusion, there have been some suggested health care reform models coming from various think tanks such as “public good”, which is government provided or contracted care, versus the “public utility model”, being privately owned health care with quality standards and pricing controlled by a government agency like public utilities. Although we get a lot of pundits and politicians arguing the pros and cons for both but we are lacking a viable solution.On the other hand, to come up with a workable infrastructure, we first need to abandon those policies that have ended in disaster, such as using financial incentives to control physician behavior, defining health care as providing diagnostics, drugs and surgery and autocratic corporate control of treatment plans. Furthermore, we have to stop believing in this myth called “freedom of choice” as if there was any free choice in health care to begin with. This term has become a way to placate us into accepting a crappy plan charging us more for less by saying, “We have preserved your freedom to choose.” So what if I don’t like the pond that I’m swimming in? I can look for another one with a different shark.On the other hand, there is another fiddle that came from Washington, D.C. called “health care reform”. We now have a new president and his political hacks in Congress who say they have revolutionized the health care industry by making it cheaper, better, more accessible and safer. The problem is that this administration and its pork barrel Congress has no clue as to what preventable errors cause the killing of 200,000 people annually in hospitals across the country, and even if they wanted to stop the carnage they wouldn’t be able to figure out how.As we listen to the political rhetoric about the current state of health care and how to improve it, we get a sense that health care is not so bad and we can make it better. On the contrary, when we go to a hospital as a patient or to visit and we see that people have to wait thirty minutes for a bed pan to avoid soiling themselves, we wake up to a different reality in the world of chaos. Therefore, as we examine the new health care reform schemes, we can quickly ascertain that our elected officials are planning to put more fish in the ponds and tell the sharks to take smaller bites.

Are you a millennial? Have you always considered buying a Smart Home, where you can operate gadgets with a touch of button or your voice? If you have already bought a Smart Home, then Congratulations! Now, the next step is buying the Smart Blinds, which can give a “RICH LOOK” to your home. Who will not enjoy the instant of waking every day – when the blinds open as per the schedule? Yet, many feel that this new technology can burn a hole in their wallets and only the rich can afford this “LUXURY.” Well, did this topic generate interest and you are willing to opt for Smart Home Window Blinds? You have come to the right place. This article can give the best information on Smart Blinds – which in other words, is High Tech Automation at a Budget Friendly Price.Has your family has decided to decorate the home with recent gadgets? Then please note, there are various types of smart home window blinds. They are -A. MOTORIZED BLINDSThis type is considered as one among the modern window blinds in a Smart Home. This type comes with attractive features such as remote control option, the best option for hard-to-reach windows. You can buy them within your scheduled budget. There are four types of motorized blinds. They are -

Motorized Vinyl Blinds

Motorized Wood Blinds

Motorized Composite Blinds

Motorized Aluminum Blinds
B. MOTORIZED SHADESAre you searching for a device that can come across as the next generation gadget for your Smart Home? Then go for Motorized Shades. The most surprising of all, you can control for either one window or for the entire home.There are many types of Motorized Shades, the information of which are given below -

Exterior Motorized Solar Shades

Skylight Motorized Shades

Sheer Horizontal Shades

Pleated Shades

Roller Solar Shades

Cellular Shades

Roman Shades

Natural Shades
C. SMART MOTORIZED SHADESYou have decided to install the Smart Window Blinds at your home. You are on the lookout for a shade that can fit into your requirements. Do you want a blind that can work with every Smart Gadget such as Google Home, Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant or Amazon Echo Control or any other company device? Then, go for Smart Motorized Shades. There are eight versions of this type and they are as follows:

Cellular Honeycomb Shades

Smart Dual Shades

Smart Roller Solar Shades

Smart Blackout Shades

Smart Pleated Shades
There are also other types of Smart Blinds. But we have mentioned only the important types in this article. And yes, you can select the best as per your budget.How Can You Make These Smart Home Window Blinds/Shades work?You can use either a Google Home or Cortana (from Microsoft) or Google Home Kit or Amazon Alexa for the task. Of course, there are few which get controlled by the app or even battery-based devices. The most important features, are these blinds resemble your normal blinds and window coverings. They come in attractive styles and designs.Benefits of Smart Blinds:The most important benefit, without a mention, is convenience. Who will not want to have the convenience of controlling a window blind from anywhere (any place) in the home via a device or a Smart Phone?1. SafetyWhen you have pets and tiny tots in the home, then safety should be your Prime Concern. Many a time, tiny tots can get tangled when playing with the cord of windows. In Smart Window Blinds, there is no chord and so, you need not worry.2. Saves MoneyYour home will become hot or cold as per the weather fluctuations. Yet, the sensor in the smart blind can open or close as per the weather forecast. This facility reduces the consumption of electricity and helps save your money.ConclusionHave you read the article on Smart Home Window Blinds products? Hope you have gained valuable information on this new type of “luxury.” So, what are you waiting for? Select your choice among the various attractive types of Blinds. Give your Smart Home the best feature and a wonderful appearance.