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How to Support a Senior During a Short-Term Stay at an Assisted Living Facility

Home Sweet Home In-Home Care

However, the idea of moving into an assisted living facility or nursing home even for a matter of weeks or months can be extremely difficult to accept. How can you help a person through this challenging life event? Pack their favorite lotion, shampoo, as well as other personal care items, along with comfortable clothes.

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The Benefits of In-Home Care Services

Community Home Health Care

Here we offer a comprehensive outline of how hired caregivers can be of assistance, as well as the benefits patients enjoy while living at home: 1. Older adults who remain in their homes enjoy much more freedom and independence than those who live in assisted living facilities or nursing homes. Increased Independence.

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Helping Seniors Move With Ease

Community Home Health Care

Family and friends can be asked to casually engage the senior in conversation about their upcoming move while taking care to offer validation for their concerns and disappointments. Many seniors have lived in their homes for decades, experiencing a variety of lifecycle events and marking numerous significant milestones over their time there.

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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 . Expedite your onboarding process .

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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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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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Ep.4: The Top 5 Challenges the Care Industry is Facing—And How Agencies Can Respond

Home Care Pulse

Amanda Sternklar ( 01:47 ): <Laugh> Kristen Wheeler ( 01:49 ): So I think for a, it, it happens for a lot of us that we just sort of find ourselves in private duty, home care, Like it’s a, it’s bizarre, but you just end up there, right? Like, Boy, wish I was home.