Update: 5 ways to pro­tect your brain, and boost your career

By SharpBrains | August 30, 2013

Time for Sharp­Brains’ August 2013 e‑newsletter, fea­turing 8 excel­lent inter­views with Speak­ers and Par­tic­i­pants in the 2013 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit (Sep­tem­ber 19–20th), 7 insight­ful media sto­ries, and more. Enjoy! Inter­view Series: San­dra Chap­man: Using inno­v­a­tive think­ing, and brain train­ing, we can rewire the brain at every lev­el Lynn Steffes: Let’s bet­ter inte­grate phys­i­cal ther­a­py and cog­ni­tive fit­ness Cori Lath­an: It’s…

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Lynn Steffes: Let’s better integrate physical therapy and cognitive fitness

By SharpBrains | August 29, 2013

What excites you the most about your job?  Thanks to the reha­bil­i­ta­tion con­sult­ing ser­vice I run, I have the amaz­ing oppor­tu­ni­ty to work with phys­i­cal reha­bil­i­ta­tion prac­tices and asso­ci­a­tions across the coun­try on pro­gram devel­op­ment, mar­ket­ing & busi­ness oper­a­tions. Pro­fes­sion­als in the rehab field are pas­sion­ate about keep­ing our pop­u­la­tion active, inde­pen­dent and enjoy­ing opti­mal quality…

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Medicare to update reimbursement criteria for degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, MS, Parkinson’s disease

By SharpBrains | October 29, 2012

What Medicare Will Cov­er Even if You’re Not Like­ly to Get Bet­ter (The New York Times): “Should the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment cov­er the costs of many kinds of treat­ments for patients who aren’t going to get any bet­ter? It didn’t, for many years. But after the set­tle­ment of a land­mark class-action this week, Medicare will soon 

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