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Aging in Place: Strategies for Seniors to Maintain Independence at Home

Community Home Health Care

As seniors enter their golden years, many prefer to age in the comfort of their own homes rather than transitioning to assisted living or nursing facilities. Community Home Health Care caregivers provide companionship, engaging in conversations, participating in hobbies, and accompanying seniors to social events or appointments.

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What the 7 Most Shocking Home Care Trends Mean for the Industry in 2022

Home Care Pulse

Step #2: Choose the right recruitment sources by learning how to navigate online job boards and social media, host virtual hiring events and in-person job fairs, work with a recruiter, and create a caregiver referral program. . Hold virtual hiring events . Network at career fairs . Incentivize employees with referral programs .

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New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee

GeriPal

So the two examples that I would talk about are treatment for osteoporosis that hinges on the 10 year risk of fracture, and then treatment for hyperlipidemia that hinges on predicted 10 year cardiovascular events. So the idea here is that generally the risks of bad things, like side effects, are pretty constant throughout the population.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

Than someone who is perhaps dependent on all their ADLs. Sometime after the age of 50, we could identify an event where the folks who were first homeless before 50, there wasn’t a clear crisis that precipitated it. A lot of them need what we would call in the middle class world assisted living, right? They got sick.