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Preventative care is an important step in finding and handling issues before they become too severe. Preventative care can alert patients and their doctors of what to look out for in the future, and can give many important steps in care management.
A new law is underway to help seniors have a much easier time getting screened and receiving preventative care.
Starting in January, the new health-care law will make it easier and cheaper for seniors to get preventive care. Medicare beneficiaries will be able to receive for free all preventive services and screenings that receive an A or B recommendation for seniors from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent panel of experts in primary care and prevention. These measures include mammograms and colorectal cancer screening, bone mass measurement and nutritional counseling for people at risk for diet-related chronic diseases such as diabetes.
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These screening are going to be a source of early detection and will be able to find and help those who need it quicker and provide them with easier and more access to measures that will make a difference for their health. This increase in senior care measures may also prove to serve to reduce visits later that pose problems for many as well. With people living longer, these measures will be able to encourage healthier aging by increasing access to seniors who are in the most in need.
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