Natural Anti Aging – Slow Down Your Aging Process From The Inside

Natural anti aging will happen if you give your body everything it needs to rejuvenate itself from the inside naturally. When you do this properly natural anti aging follows, and over time, you will slow down the rate at which your body ages.If you do it the right way you will begin to look and feel younger naturally without any need to resort to surgical facelifts, botox injections, injectable fillers or hormone injections.The truth is, natural anti aging involves nothing more than a good understanding of what causes your body to age, what your body needs the most and what you should avoid.The recent upsurge in the sale of products such as nutrition, physical fitness, skin care, vitamins, supplements and herbs is a good indication that people want to look younger and live longer.Although there has been extensive medical research into reversing the aging process and the rejuvenation of skin cells using stem cells, for most people feeling and looking younger can be simplified by avoiding proven age accelerators.It is widely accepted that your expected lifespan can be increased by following a natural anti aging plan which includes a good and healthy diet, keeping fit with regular exercise and avoiding age accelerating hazards such as sugar consumption, refined carbohydrates, smoking, sun damage, inflammation caused by toxins or excessive exercise, and muscle atrophy from inactivity.Natural Anti Aging – The Worst Age AcceleratorMost of us know you should cut down on sugar if you want to lose weight but did you know that sugar accelerates the rate at which your body ages?According to Dr Nicholas Perricone; “Sugar is exceptionally damaging to your skin because it attaches to the proteins of collagen, causing collagen to “cross-link.” When collagen cross-links, it becomes stiff and inflexible, leading to the wrinkling and stiffness of old skin.”The cross-linking of collagen not only makes your skin inflexible but it also leads to discoloration and pigmentation faults such as age-spots.Dr Nicholas Perricone also says: “Eating sugary and starchy foods shows up on the skin as a loss of radiance, dark circles under the eyes, the loss of tone, puffiness, an increase in fine lines and wrinkles, the loss of facial contours and increased pore size. These foods can also exacerbate acne, which is a systemic, inflammatory disease. I am not exaggerating when I say that sugar can rob you of your youth, health, and beauty.”Natural Anti Aging – Cut Out SugarSugars cause Endogenous Glycations to occur in the bloodstream, fructose and galactose are the worst culprits because they have approximately ten times the glycation activity of glucose.Glycation is the first step in a complex series of very slow reactions in the body which eventually lead to advanced glycation end products (ironically known as AGEs).Some AGEs are more reactive than the sugars they were originally derived from and are implicated in many age-related chronic diseases such as: cardiovascular diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, and peripheral neuropathy.Glycation also causes your skin to age noticeably by damaging collagen in two ways. Firstly Glycation reduces your collagen’s ability to rebuild your skin’s structure and secondly it increases the natural rate at which your collagen breaks down.So, from a natural anti aging point of view, sugar delivers a hefty two-pronged attack on your skin and this increases as you grow older and your collagen levels become naturally weaker.If this isn’t bad enough, Glycation also increases the adverse effects already caused by smoking, alcohol and sun damage.So next time you feel tempted by that sugary doughnut or an extra spoonful of sugar in your tea, think on. Sugar consumption seriously increases your risk of having wrinkled, crepey skin that is susceptible to sagging and age spots.Avoiding sugar seems to be straightforward but sugar is found everywhere in this modern world.Convenience foods, processed foods, soda drinks, confectionary, cakes, biscuits, anything that has been caramelized.If you are serious about natural anti aging then you must cut sugar out of your diet completely.Sugar has no place in your natural anti aging plan if you want to slow down your aging process and reap the rewards in the future by having a radiant, clear complexion and the vitality to enjoy your extended life.For most people longevity is not worth having if you do not have the energy and health to enjoy it, feeling younger and looking younger go together when it comes to natural anti aging.

Reaching Business To Business Online Marketing Companies

Are you involved in business to business online marketing? Business to business online marketing spans a wide range of industries, yet the marketing strategies are still similar as in business to consumer marketing. The number 1 key factor to success is price range, and proper follow up. Because most businesses want to make more money, they will work from dusk to dawn to make it happen.As a business owner yourself, I’m sure you already know this. The top goal of all online business owners is to improve their business profits, but most don’t know how to achieve this goal. Even if you sell printers, marketing books, office supplies, subscriptions, magazines, and etc, you need to know how to target and reach your targeted prospect for as cheaply as possible – so that you can lower expenses and become as profitable as possible.I will go over some simple business to business online marketing strategies that you can use to gain profits easily without spending a lot of money to do so. You may not have thought about using these simple strategies, but I assure you that they work, and they are a combination of offline and online marketing tactics – since online business owners do STILL operate in the offline world. Here’s the first business to business online marketing strategy that you can use:1) Direct mailDirect mail is highly effective in today’s world – even though most people don’t get as much out of it as they should be. You see, most people view direct marketing as a 1-shot deal. The typical business owner will find or build a list, send a mailing out to them, maybe get a few sales, and call it a day. However you should know that you can get much more out of your direct mail efforts if you did more than a one-shot mailing.So how can you mail multiple times to a prospect without violating the rules or terms of a list provider? It’s simple – and you can do it in a variety of ways. You have to understand that not everyone is a pro in selecting mailing lists. In fact, most people use list brokers to get them a good mailing list. While some list brokers do a good job, a lot of list brokers out there are sharks. They will probe you with questions to test your skill level of direct mail, and will give you a list based on your knowledge of what to do with them.When doing business to business online marketing, it’s critical that you know how to specifically target online business owners who are a match for the product or service that you are trying to sell them. Depending on what you sell, you may want to target by location, age, nationality, income, profession, and by the last dollar amount that they spent on a similar item that you’re trying to sell them. And of course more.You should be able to get all of this information by using something called the “SRDS”. SRDS stands for “Standard Rate and Data Service”. You can find this at your city’s main local library. It has a collection of mailing lists that you can purchase, specify, and merge to gain the most ideal candidate for your product. Now depending on the price of your product and the last item that these people bought, you may want to generate leads first from your initial mailing, or send them a direct offer.The way to do multiple direct mail mailings is simple. You can either rent a list and generate leads – thus not violating terms of the initial mailing, or you can generate your own list, and send follow up direct mail mailings to them. In both situations your generating a lead. These online marketing prospects have voluntarily raised their hand to receive more information from you. And since you’re marketing via direct mail, you can expect your conversion rates to be a lot higher than just email marketing alone.Here’s another business to business online marketing strategy that you can use to get more sales:2) Joint venturesDoing joint ventures on the internet is incredibly simple. With the advent of affiliate programs and tracking software, joint ventures on the internet is a cinch – you just have to find the right partner to do it with. This is an easy way to reach a targeted prospect base with $0 cost of advertising. This makes joint venture marketing a magnificent way to get more new customers.To use joint ventures get business to business online marketing customers, first you have to identify who your targeted prospects are. Are you a marketing consultant? Then obviously your customer base are online business owners who are looking for consulting help – or who wants to learn how to do internet marketing properly (the first time around).Are you an industrial carpet cleaner? Then you can reach your prospects from searching through email lists, blogs, forums, and websites in the carpet cleaning niche. You would have to specify the kind of commercial work that you do – as you will get to charge more to businesses who need lots of spaces cleaned, and have the financial power to pay you more than a consumer would.To approach a likely joint venture partner, simply get in touch of the webmaster that you believe is a good fit for your products or service, and make a deal with them. Most people offer low joint venture commission rates, while I like to offer them high commission rates so that it can get their attention. Plus you should also know that the money in your business will come from backend repeat sales from a customer. So earning a little bit of money on a frontend joint venture sale isn’t a bad idea.Simply tell them what you sell, how it will benefit their list or customer base, and how much of the profits you’re willing to share with them. If the terms are great, most will agree – but you will have to do much of the work when it comes to streamlining the sales process. And once they agree, the joint venture can begin – and it doesn’t have to end. Ever.Business to business online marketing can be made simple if consider these 2 strategies. Direct mail works great when reaching business owners, and joint ventures is a free way to get sales and launch a profitable campaign on a $0 budget. Be sure to use them both today.

Base Tendriling Travel Expenses

As business travel expenses nose upward, companies are realizing that better cost-management techniques can make a differenceUS. corporate travel expenses rocketed to more than $143 billion in 1994, according to American Express’ most recent survey on business travel management. Private-sector employers spend an estimated $2,484 per employee on travel and entertainment, a 17 percent increase over the past four years.Corporate T&E costs, now the third-largest controllable expense behind sales and data-processing costs, are under new scrutiny. Corporations are realizing that even a savings of 1 percent or 2 percent can translate into millions of dollars added to their bottom line.Savings of that order are sure to get management’s attention, which is a requirement for this type of project. Involvement begins with understanding and evaluating the components of T&E management in order to control and monitor it more effectively.Hands-on management includes assigning responsibility for travel management, implementing a quality-measurement system for travel services used, and writing and distributing a formal travel policy. Only 64 percent of U.S. corporations have travel policies.Even with senior management’s support, the road to savings is rocky-only one in three companies has successfully instituted an internal program that will help cut travel expenses, and the myriad aspects of travel are so overwhelming, most companies don’t know where to start. “The industry of travel is based on information,” says Steven R. Schoen, founder and CEO of The Global Group Inc. “Until such time as a passenger actually sets foot on the plane, they’ve [only] been purchasing information.”If that’s the case, information technology seems a viable place to hammer out those elusive, but highly sought-after, savings. “Technological innovations in the business travel industry are allowing firms to realize the potential of automation to control and reduce indirect [travel] costs,” says Roger H. Ballou, president of the Travel Services Group USA of American Express. “In addition, many companies are embarking on quality programs that include sophisticated process improvement and reengineering efforts designed to substantially improve T&E management processes and reduce indirect costs.”As companies look to technology to make potential savings a reality, they can get very creative about the methods they employ.The Great LevelerCentralized reservation systems were long the exclusive domain of travel agents and other industry professionals. But all that changed in November 1992 when a Department of Transportation ruling allowed the general public access to systems such as Apollo and SABRE. Travel-management software, such as TripPower and TravelNet, immediately sprang up, providing corporations insight into where their T&E dollars are being spent.The software tracks spending trends by interfacing with the corporation’s database and providing access to centralized reservation systems that provide immediate reservation information to airlines, hotels and car rental agencies. These programs also allow users to generate computerized travel reports on cost savings with details on where discounts were obtained, hotel and car usage and patterns of travel between cities. Actual data gives corporations added leverage when negotiating discounts with travel suppliers.”When you own the information, you don’t have to go back to square one every time you decide to change agencies,” says Mary Savovie Stephens, travel manager for biotech giant Chiron Corp.Sybase Inc., a client/server software leader with an annual T&E budget of more than $15 million, agrees. “Software gives us unprecedented visibility into how employees are spending their travel dollars and better leverage to negotiate with travel service suppliers,” says Robert Lerner, director of credit and corporate travel services for Sybase Inc. “We have better access to data, faster, in a real-time environment, which is expected to bring us big savings in T&E. Now we have control over our travel information and no longer have to depend exclusively on the agencies and airlines.”The cost for this privilege depends on the volume of business. One-time purchases of travel-management software can run from under $100 to more than $125,000. Some software providers will accommodate smaller users by selling software piecemeal for $5 to $12 per booked trip, still a significant savings from the $50 industry norm per transaction.No More TicketsPaperless travel is catching on faster than the paperless office ever did as both service providers and consumers work together to reduce ticket prices for business travelers. Perhaps the most cutting-edge of the advances is “ticketless” travel, which almost all major airlines are testing.In the meantime, travel providers and agencies are experimenting with new technologies to enable travelers to book travel services via the Internet, e-mail and unattended ticketing kiosks. Best Western International, Hyatt Hotels and several other major hotel chains market on the Internet. These services reduce the need for paper and offer better service and such peripheral benefits as increased efficiency, improved tracking of travel expenses and trends, and cost reduction.Dennis Egolf, CFO of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Louisville, Ky., realized that the medical center’s decentralized location, a quarter-mile from the hospital, made efficiency difficult. “We were losing production time and things got lost,” he says. “Every memo had to be hand-carried for approval, and we required seven different copies of each travel order.” As a result, Egolf tried an off-the-shelf, paper-reduction software package designed for the federal government.The software allows the hospital to manage travel on-line, from tracking per-diem allowances and calculating expenses to generating cash advance forms and authorizing reimbursement vouchers. The software also lets the hospital keep a running account of its travel expenses and its remaining travel budget.”Today, for all practical purposes, the system is paperless,” says Egolf. The software has helped the hospital reduce document processing time by 93 percent. “The original goal focused on managing employee travel without paper,” he says. “We have achieved that goal, in part due to the efforts of the staff and in part due to the accuracy of the software.”With only a $6,000 investment, the hospital saved $70 each employee trip and saved almost half of its $200,000 T&E budget through the paper-reduction program.Out ThereConsolidation of corporate travel arrangements by fewer agencies has been a growing trend since 1982. Nearly three out of four companies now make travel plans for their business locations through a single agency as opposed to 51 percent in 1988. Two major benefits of agency consolidation are the facilitation of accounting and T&E budgeting, as well as leverage in negotiating future travel discounts.A major technological advance that allows this consolidation trend to flourish is the introduction of satellite ticket printers (STPs). Using STPs enables a travel agency to consolidate all operations to one home office, and still send all necessary tickets to various locations instantly via various wire services. As the term implies, the machinery prints out airline tickets on-site immediately, eliminating delivery charges.For London Fog, STPs are a blessing. London Fog’s annual T&E budget of more than $15 million is split equally between its two locations in Eldersburg, Md., and New York City. Each location purchases the same number of tickets, so equal access to ticketing from their agency is a must. With an STP in their two locations, the company services both offices with one agency in Baltimore. Each office has access to immediate tickets and still manages to save by not having to pay courier and express mail charges that can range up to $15 for each of the more than 500 tickets each purchases annually.Conde Nast Publications’ annual T&E budget of more than $20 million is allocated among its locations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Detroit. Since 1994, travel arrangements have been handled by a centralized agency, Advanced Travel Management in New York City, by installing an STP in each of these five locations. In addition to increased efficiency due to consolidation, Conde Nast now has the ability to change travel plans at a moment’s notice and have new tickets in hand instantly.The real benefit is that the machines are owned and maintained by the travel agency., so there is no cost to the company. Due to the major expense involved, however, STPs remain an option only for major ticket purchasers. “STPs are a viable option in this process for any location that purchases more than $500,000 per year in tickets,” says Shoen.As airfare averages 43 percent of any company’s T&E expenses, savings obtainable through the various uses of technology have become dramatic. For example, the ability of corporations to collect and analyze their own travel trends has led to the creation of net-fare purchasing-negotiating a price between a corporation and an airline to purchase tickets that does not include the added expenses of commissions, overrides, transaction fees, agency transaction fees and other discounts.Although most major U.S. carriers publicly proclaim that they don’t negotiate corporate discounts below published market fares, the American Express survey on business travel management found that 38 percent of U.S. companies had access to, or already had implemented, negotiated airline discounts. The availability and mechanics of these arrangements vary widely by carrier.What’s the Price?Fred Swaffer, transportation manager for Hewlett-Packard and a strong advocate of the net-pricing system, has pioneered the concept of fee-based pricing with travel-management companies under contract with H-P. He states that H-P, which spends more than $528 million per year on T&E, plans to have all air travel based on net-fare pricing. “At the present time, we have several net fares at various stages of agreement,” he says. “These fares are negotiated with the airlines at the corporate level, then trickle down to each of our seven geographical regions.”Frank Kent, Western regional manager for United Airlines, concurs: “United Airlines participates in corporate volume discounting, such as bulk ticket purchases, but not with net pricing. I have yet to see one net-fare agreement that makes sense to us. We’re not opposed to it, but we just don’t understand it right now.”Kent stresses, “Airlines should approach corporations with long-term strategic relationships rather than just discounts. We would like to see ourselves committed to a corporation rather than just involved.”As business travel expenses nose upward, companies are realizing that better cost-management techniques can make a difference.US. corporate travel expenses rocketed to more than $143 billion in 1994, according to American Express’ most recent survey on business travel management. Private-sector employers spend an estimated $2,484 per employee on travel and entertainment, a 17 percent increase over the past four years.Corporate T&E costs, now the third-largest controllable expense behind sales and data-processing costs, are under new scrutiny. Corporations are realizing that even a savings of 1 percent or 2 percent can translate into millions of dollars added to their bottom line.Savings of that order are sure to get management’s attention, which is a requirement for this type of project. Involvement begins with understanding and evaluating the components of T&E management in order to control and monitor it more effectively.Hands-on management includes assigning responsibility for travel management, implementing a quality-measurement system for travel services used, and writing and distributing a formal travel policy. Only 64 percent of U.S. corporations have travel policies.Even with senior management’s support, the road to savings is rocky-only one in three companies has successfully instituted an internal program that will help cut travel expenses, and the myriad aspects of travel are so overwhelming, most companies don’t know where to start. “The industry of travel is based on information,” says Steven R. Schoen, founder and CEO of The Global Group Inc. “Until such time as a passenger actually sets foot on the plane, they’ve [only] been purchasing information.”If that’s the case, information technology seems a viable place to hammer out those elusive, but highly sought-after, savings. “Technological innovations in the business travel industry are allowing firms to realize the potential of automation to control and reduce indirect [travel] costs,” says Roger H. Ballou, president of the Travel Services Group USA of American Express. “In addition, many companies are embarking on quality programs that include sophisticated process improvement and reengineering efforts designed to substantially improve T&E management processes and reduce indirect costs.”As companies look to technology to make potential savings a reality, they can get very creative about the methods they employ.The Great LevelerCentralized reservation systems were long the exclusive domain of travel agents and other industry professionals. But all that changed in November 1992 when a Department of Transportation ruling allowed the general public access to systems such as Apollo and SABRE. Travel-management software, such as TripPower and TravelNet, immediately sprang up, providing corporations insight into where their T&E dollars are being spent.The software tracks spending trends by interfacing with the corporation’s database and providing access to centralized reservation systems that provide immediate reservation information to airlines, hotels and car rental agencies. These programs also allow users to generate computerized travel reports on cost savings with details on where discounts were obtained, hotel and car usage and patterns of travel between cities. Actual data gives corporations added leverage when negotiating discounts with travel suppliers.”When you own the information, you don’t have to go back to square one every time you decide to change agencies,” says Mary Savovie Stephens, travel manager for biotech giant Chiron Corp.Sybase Inc., a client/server software leader with an annual T&E budget of more than $15 million, agrees. “Software gives us unprecedented visibility into how employees are spending their travel dollars and better leverage to negotiate with travel service suppliers,” says Robert Lerner, director of credit and corporate travel services for Sybase Inc. “We have better access to data, faster, in a real-time environment, which is expected to bring us big savings in T&E. Now we have control over our travel information and no longer have to depend exclusively on the agencies and airlines.”The cost for this privilege depends on the volume of business. One-time purchases of travel-management software can run from under $100 to more than $125,000. Some software providers will accommodate smaller users by selling software piecemeal for $5 to $12 per booked trip, still a significant savings from the $50 industry norm per transaction.No More TicketsPaperless travel is catching on faster than the paperless office ever did as both service providers and consumers work together to reduce ticket prices for business travelers. Perhaps the most cutting-edge of the advances is “ticketless” travel, which almost all major airlines are testing.In the meantime, travel providers and agencies are experimenting with new technologies to enable travelers to book travel services via the Internet, e-mail and unattended ticketing kiosks. Best Western International, Hyatt Hotels and several other major hotel chains market on the Internet. These services reduce the need for paper and offer better service and such peripheral benefits as increased efficiency, improved tracking of travel expenses and trends, and cost reduction.Dennis Egolf, CFO of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Louisville, Ky., realized that the medical center’s decentralized location, a quarter-mile from the hospital, made efficiency difficult. “We were losing production time and things got lost,” he says. “Every memo had to be hand-carried for approval, and we required seven different copies of each travel order.” As a result, Egolf tried an off-the-shelf, paper-reduction software package designed for the federal government.The software allows the hospital to manage travel on-line, from tracking per-diem allowances and calculating expenses to generating cash advance forms and authorizing reimbursement vouchers. The software also lets the hospital keep a running account of its travel expenses and its remaining travel budget.”Today, for all practical purposes, the system is paperless,” says Egolf. The software has helped the hospital reduce document processing time by 93 percent. “The original goal focused on managing employee travel without paper,” he says. “We have achieved that goal, in part due to the efforts of the staff and in part due to the accuracy of the software.”With only a $6,000 investment, the hospital saved $70 each employee trip and saved almost half of its $200,000 T&E budget through the paper-reduction program.Out ThereConsolidation of corporate travel arrangements by fewer agencies has been a growing trend since 1982. Nearly three out of four companies now make travel plans for their business locations through a single agency as opposed to 51 percent in 1988. Two major benefits of agency consolidation are the facilitation of accounting and T&E budgeting, as well as leverage in negotiating future travel discounts.A major technological advance that allows this consolidation trend to flourish is the introduction of satellite ticket printers (STPs). Using STPs enables a travel agency to consolidate all operations to one home office, and still send all necessary tickets to various locations instantly via various wire services. As the term implies, the machinery prints out airline tickets on-site immediately, eliminating delivery charges.For London Fog, STPs are a blessing. London Fog’s annual T&E budget of more than $15 million is split equally between its two locations in Eldersburg, Md., and New York City. Each location purchases the same number of tickets, so equal access to ticketing from their agency is a must. With an STP in their two locations, the company services both offices with one agency in Baltimore. Each office has access to immediate tickets and still manages to save by not having to pay courier and express mail charges that can range up to $15 for each of the more than 500 tickets each purchases annually.Conde Nast Publications’ annual T&E budget of more than $20 million is allocated among its locations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Detroit. Since 1994, travel arrangements have been handled by a centralized agency, Advanced Travel Management in New York City, by installing an STP in each of these five locations. In addition to increased efficiency due to consolidation, Conde Nast now has the ability to change travel plans at a moment’s notice and have new tickets in hand instantly.The real benefit is that the machines are owned and maintained by the travel agency., so there is no cost to the company. Due to the major expense involved, however, STPs remain an option only for major ticket purchasers. “STPs are a viable option in this process for any location that purchases more than $500,000 per year in tickets,” says Shoen.As airfare averages 43 percent of any company’s T&E expenses, savings obtainable through the various uses of technology have become dramatic. For example, the ability of corporations to collect and analyze their own travel trends has led to the creation of net-fare purchasing-negotiating a price between a corporation and an airline to purchase tickets that does not include the added expenses of commissions, overrides, transaction fees, agency transaction fees and other discounts.Although most major U.S. carriers publicly proclaim that they don’t negotiate corporate discounts below published market fares, the American Express survey on business travel management found that 38 percent of U.S. companies had access to, or already had implemented, negotiated airline discounts. The availability and mechanics of these arrangements vary widely by carrier.What’s the Price?Fred Swaffer, transportation manager for Hewlett-Packard and a strong advocate of the net-pricing system, has pioneered the concept of fee-based pricing with travel-management companies under contract with H-P. He states that H-P, which spends more than $528 million per year on T&E, plans to have all air travel based on net-fare pricing. “At the present time, we have several net fares at various stages of agreement,” he says. “These fares are negotiated with the airlines at the corporate level, then trickle down to each of our seven geographical regions.”Frank Kent, Western regional manager for United Airlines, concurs: “United Airlines participates in corporate volume discounting, such as bulk ticket purchases, but not with net pricing. I have yet to see one net-fare agreement that makes sense to us. We’re not opposed to it, but we just don’t understand it right now.”Kent stresses, “Airlines should approach corporations with long-term strategic relationships rather than just discounts. We would like to see ourselves committed to a corporation rather than just involved.”source: http://orlandomap.info/base-tendriling-travel-expenses

Understanding Your Medicare Home Health Care Benefits

For many caregivers and families who are searching to find out more information on how they can care for their elders and loved ones, it can seem like a daunting task. One of the most important distinctions that have to be made on your information gathering quest is to know the difference between Medicare covered Home Care vs. all other forms of home care. In this article, we will explain what Medicare Home Care is and how to find out if you or your loved one qualifies.What is Medicare Home Health Care?Home Health Care is skilled nursing care and certain other health care services that you get in your home for the treatment of an illness or injury.One of the services offered to senior citizens by Medicare is Home Health Services. Medicare recipients must qualify for services, and they must be recommended by the individual’s primary care physician or specialty care physician.Medicare beneficiaries who feel they may need Medicare home care should always look into whether they can actually qualify for Medicare home health services. It is not a general personal care or chore-worker service. Rather, Medicare home care covers limited, specifically defined at-home care related to diagnosed medical conditions, and sometimes includes personal care services.These Medicare home care services must be prescribed by a physician, and provided through a licensed home health agency. The beneficiary must have a medical condition, or combination of conditions, that require periodic services from a skilled nurse or therapist. A plan of care will be developed that describes the specific services covered. Eligibility and coverage are evaluated strictly so the beneficiary’s conditions and care needs must be aired fully.Medicare Home Care QualificationsIt is common for an elderly person to need assistance upon discharge from a hospital or in-patient rehabilitation stay. That individual’s physician, sometimes in concert with family members and the patient him/herself, would determine the in-home health care need and complete paperwork that refers the patient to home health care.Other common situations include the slow physical decline elderly people experience; when that decline includes inability to care for oneself on a daily basis-but nursing home care is not yet required-the physician may recommend home health care for just those tasks the senior is unable to perform.These four conditions must be met before homecare services can be prescribed and covered by Medicare:1. Your doctor must decide that you need medical care in your home, and make a plan for your care at home; and2. You must need at least one of the following: intermittent (and not full time) skilled nursing care, or physical therapy or speech-language pathology services or continue to need occupational therapy; and3. You must be home bound or normally unable to leave home & leaving home takes a considerable and taxing effort. A person may leave home for medical treatment or short, infrequent absences for non-medical reasons; and4. The home health agency caring for you must be approved (“certified”) by the Medicare program.You can always find more information about your benefits and rights at Medicare’s website.