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In-Home Care vs. Assisted Living: Making the Right Choice for Your Loved One

Comfort Home Care

In-Home Care for Seniors In-home care provides professional support services for individuals or couples who need help recovering from an illness, managing a chronic illness, have special needs or a disability, or who simply need help with the Activities of Daily Living (ADLs).

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Which Home Care Agency Is Right for You?

Comfort Home Care

In most home-health care cases, clients require some type of assistance with the activities of daily living (ADLs). At a minimum, your home-health aide should be a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) or a Geriatric Nursing Assistant (GNA). Begin by asking what tasks you or your loved one needs help performing.

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4 Ways Home Health Agencies Can Benefit Seniors

Comfort Home Care

At Comfort Home Care, our certified nursing assistants (CNAs) and geriatric nursing assistants (GNAs) provide highly skilled one-on-one home care and assistance. By providing assistance with the activities of daily living (ADLs), older adults can feel safe and secure in their homes. 4: Maintaining Independence.

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Gerontology nursing: holistic care of the older person

The Nurse Break

The primary users of acute hospital services are older people, and yet hardly any hospital nurses would consider themselves geriatric specialists. Geriatric complications and preventable complications. Interventions to reduce ‘geriatric syndromes’ (eg. dr kasia bail. dr kasia bail.

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