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Finding your PAC

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

However, after watching a group of tiny 7-year-olds wake before the sun with smiles, joyfully clean stalls, bathe their ponies, and ride with pride, I was changing my tune to, “Girl, your horse friends are solid people.”. Their constant support for each other: “We don’t care who wins. Bathe, shovel, graze your horse, anything at all?”

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CNA Week Recognizes Certified Nursing Assistants

Minority Nurse

To help ensure the success of CNAs and the highest quality of caregiving, the NAHCA advocates for CNAs by working closely with healthcare providers and the long-term care facilities where many CNAs work. CNAs may also use technology to help record healthcare details or to chart tasks or patient changes.

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Caregiving Best Practices: Hire In-Home Help

Hope Hospice

2) Home Care/Personal Care. This type of in-home assistance offers basic functional, non-medical help such as bathing, dressing, grooming, dining, medication reminders, shopping, light housekeeping, companionship, shopping, etc. This type of care is also referred to as custodial care.

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Caregiver Mistakes: Not Hiring In-Home Help

Hope Hospice

2) Home Care/Personal Care. This type of in-home assistance offers basic functional, non-medical help such as bathing, dressing, grooming, dining, medication reminders, shopping, light housekeeping, companionship, shopping, etc. This type of care is also referred to as custodial care.

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Keeping Alzheimer’s Patients at Home With Memory Care

Comfort Home Care

Personal care : Help with activities of daily living (ADLs) such as bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, housekeeping, laundry, meal prep, and help with eating. Family involvement: Families get to be more involved in the care of their loved ones.

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Top Family Caregiver Mistakes:  Part 2; Not hiring in-home help

Hope Hospice

Hope Hospice is publishing a five-part monthly series about common family caregiver mistakes. 2) Home Care/Personal Care. This type of in-home assistance offers basic functional, non-medical help such as bathing, dressing, grooming, dining, medication reminders, shopping, light housekeeping, companionship, shopping, etc.

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Boredom and Dementia Patients

Hope Hospice

In most cases, caregivers (often, family members) are at a loss of how to provide dementia-related care. Dementia symptoms have changed the relationship between caregiver and loved one, and it’s common to feel at a loss of what to do. Why do boredom and loneliness top the list? Living With Dementia, a Hope Hospice Program.

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