How Is Your Mood? - Page 6

Northray · ‎08-29-2013

@RedTop wrote:
I have no complaint about the annual wellness exam and choose to look at this in terms of being a way to identify health issues in early stages.

A wellness exam would have identified the cognitive changes in my mother before I requested one focused solely on her mental abilities. Mom failed every test given to her that day, but walked out of there thinking she did everything right!

I am no expert on dementia, but after seeing MANY family members, friends, neighbors and coworkers thru their journey with it, I feel I well know the signs of dementia. I don't brush the earliest signs off as someone's carelessness, their weird quirks, their bad attitude, they've become uncaring, or mean and nasty.

Right now I'm surrounded by dementia; 3 people I worked with, 2 extended family members, a neighbor, and I even suspect it from posts I read daily right here. I'm all for exams that might help catch someone in the earliest stage of dementia.

I've been affected by dementia too. My grandmother had it and now an elderly neighbor has it. I don't know if this is correct but it seems like more older people are suffering from dementia now. Or has it always been like this? Was it that we didn't know what the symptoms/signs were before maybe? I don't know. But it seems like a blight hitting the senior community.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

-Rumi

tl98466 · ‎11-07-2010

Though it's never discussed, everytime I've gone to see my PCP, I had to complete a mental health questionnaire after the PA has done my vitals.

redbird · ‎03-24-2010

I am 74 years old and the new young nurse asked me if I was on birth control at my last visit!

RedTop · ‎09-01-2010

Dementia has always surrounded us; on death certificates from the 30's, 40's and 50's, the cause of death was often recorded as mental confusion, mental illness, senility, etc.

Families just seemed to accept their loved one was off their rocker, watched over them, took care of them as best they could until there was the bad incident that resulted in a ruling of incompetence, sending the relative to a mental hospital or sanitarium, where they lived out their days.

Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

@CelticCrafter wrote:
@Carmie wrote:
@febe1 wrote:
@Winkk wrote:
@febe1 wrote:
@CelticCrafter wrote:
To me it sounds like those intrusive questions they ask during that annual waste of time Medicare Wellness visit.
I agree. I've been asked all kind of "instrusive" questions at the unnecessary "wellness" visit. I can't believe some of the questions asked.

@febe1 .. I don't think these "unnecessary wellness" visits are mandatory. Just don't go. I skip years.
I'm on Medicare and my physician said I "had" to do an annual Wellness. I thought I should be able to make that decision.
You do not have to get a wellness Medicare exam. Very often doctors will do one while you are there for something else, like a 6 month visit.

My doctor just send me the questions in line to answer and then I am asked to draw a clock in the office.

For this,the doctor gets paid over $200. That's why they want you to get the exam. It's a money maker.

I often wonder what they do if you answer questions stating you are having financial difficulties, are afraid to live alone, have rugs you can trip over and not have enough food.

Are they going to help you? I doubt it.
@Carmie but it will become a permanent part of your file.

True. And, if you are found dead because you starved to death, it will be noted that you had food insecurity.

What good will that do?

What I find troubling is that at age 65 you are treated like an old struggling person yet doctors, surgeons, attorneys, college professors and politicians are still actually working and some are way above 65 years of age.

Mom2Dogs · ‎03-09-2010

I don't take advantage of that Medicare Wellness visit, I don't under stand the point of it....I only see a doctor if I have a reason. I don't need to be told about rugs on the floor as a hazard or if I have firearms in the house, etc..huge waste of taxpayer money in my opinion.

Mom2Dogs · ‎03-09-2010

Ha, ha..the government is not going to tell me I have to have a doctor visit, that is rididculous.

proudlyfromNJ · ‎05-01-2010

No one in the government ever contacted me to visit with my doctor.

Jk9 · ‎07-18-2013

I just went to the ER with a deep glass cut to my finger abd was asked about my mood, if I have happiness in my life and if I feel safe in my home. Seriously??? Enough is enough I feel my privacy is violated at some point. I held my tongue since is know the practioner is mandated to ask these questions, but some days I lose it and tell them I've had enough of this being "whole" and the "wholeness of the person" and prefer they focus on providing the clinical services I came in for.

If my dog doesn't like you, neither do I.