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4 Ways Home Health Agencies Can Benefit Seniors

Comfort Home Care

Throughout Maryland and the surrounding areas, including Montgomery County and Prince George’s County, we provide compassionate and experienced in-home care services that allow our clients to age in place with grace and dignity. Here are a few ways home healthcare services can improve the lives of older adults.

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The Differences Between Home Health Care Caregiver Roles

Comfort Home Care

A personal care assistant, or PCA, helps the elderly, those with disabilities, and those recovering from an illness or accident with the activities of daily living, or ADLs. Certified Nursing Assistant. Personal Care Assistant. A PCA may also help with light housekeeping tasks, meal preparation and other basic needs.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

And so I became more interested in what are the outcomes of patients with cancer when they do go to a nursing facility? Why do we not have more palliative care access in nursing homes? And a lot of them never actually improve their ADLs once they’re sent to SNF. Sarguni: Yeah. Ann: Even though that would be cheaper.

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Managing Urinary Symptoms and UTI’s in Older Adults

GeriPal

First, we talk with Christine, a researcher and geriatrician from the University of North Carolina, who recently published a JAGS article titled Overdiagnosis of urinary tract infections by nursing home clinicians versus a clinical guideline. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. Is that right?

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

Home Care Pulse

What this means for home care: The industry is reaching new heights after earning an increased level of appreciation in the healthcare space due to the pandemic. For the home care industry, it has only strengthened our focus on efforts to provide quality care and keep older Americans in their homes and safe.”.

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

GeriPal

ePrognosis started out as just a list of different prognostic indices, so things to predict mortality in hospitalized adults, things to predict mortality in community dwelling adults, things to predict mortality in nursing home residents. And we’ve been slowly building that out. That’s been reported previously.

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Supporting patient, caregiver and family engagement with technology

AlayaCare

Families have turned away from nursing homes and other institutionalized settings at record rates over the last few years. Instead, they’re choosing home care for their loved ones. As a result, home care organizations are not only caring for more clients – but more clients with acute and complex needs.

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