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

Comfort Home Care

As our loved ones age, many of us become caregivers, and it can be challenging to balance the care they need with all our other responsibilities. With senior home care, your loved one gets one-on-one attention from a dedicated caregiver, which can lead to a deep, trusting relationship.

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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

Aging in place with the assistance of qualified caregivers provides significant benefits as compared to living in a nursing home or residential facility. At Comfort Home Care, our certified nursing assistants (CNAs) and geriatric nursing assistants (GNAs) provide highly skilled one-on-one home care and assistance.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

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And then I did a geriatric orthopedic fellowship and that was really an exciting opportunity to help hip fracture patients, but then someone knocked on our door. Eric: What’s a geriatric orthopedic fellowship? So I got to help create one of the first geriatric orthopedic fellowships. Eric: Oh, that’s fabulous.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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what happens at home, do you need a caregiver, what happens if they need something like imaging? She trained at UCSF, for geriatrics fellowship. Eric: Do you need a caregiver? Bruce: No, you don’t necessarily need a caregiver. There’s a lot of interest lately, in the role of caregivers in hospital-at-home.

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