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Fall Prevention In The Home
Falling at home can be an incredibly frightening experience, especially for those who are elderly or living alone. According to the CDC, more than 33% of people aged 65 and older are involved in accidents and falls in the home each year. Oftentimes these falls are due to hazards that are easily overlooked but simple…
4 Ways Enhanced Home Health Can Reduce Hospital Readmissions
By: Tracey Shoop, Transitional Care Program Director For those suffering with long term health problems or chronic conditions, going back and forth to the hospital can become a normal routine. Recreating the care from the hospital to the home can become a daunting task. Assisted is proud to offer an Enhanced Home Health program with…
Reduce Readmissions With Enhanced Home Health
Enhanced Home Health (EHH) began as a pilot program in Hospitals that were looking to reduce their readmission rates. The hospitals began contacting prestigious home healthcare agencies in hope to develop a protocol that would work to identify patient emergencies before they needed to be readmitted to the hospital. From this relationship it was shown…
Understanding Palliative Care and How it Can Help
I know most people have heard of Hospice Care before but Palliative Care may as well be a foreign word. Palliative Care is care that focuses on making someones life better by treating symptoms of terminal, chronic, or long-lasting disease or illness. Many patients with a terminal or chronic illness have a small arsenal of…
The Landscape Of Home Care In Thousand Oaks
Thousand Oaks lies just beyond the west edge of Los Angeles County. The population is 128,412 with 14.7% of that being 65 years and over. That means roughly 18,876 people are potentially going to need Home Care in Thousand Oaks. With the baby boomer generation reaching their geriatric years this number is only posed to…
Nutrition for Los Angeles Home Care Patients
In our younger years eating healthy may not have been our top priority. As we get older the nutritional benefits of balanced diet are much more important. As the old saying goes “you get better with age”, so must your diet. This is especially true for patient receiving home care services. The great part is…
Difficult Discussions In Home Care and Life
By: Sherry Netherland, Director of Special Projects for Assisted Healthcare Services Crisis is too often the driving force in healthcare decisions and it shouldn’t be. When we are enjoying good health we don’t think about it. Unfortunately, for many of us, the first time we think about our health is when it fails us and…
Top 5 Things you Need to Know About a Nursing Career
(Original Post: http://www.thequarterroll.com/Job-Fair/nursing-job-fair.htm#NURSE) 1. Attending Nursing School Career in nursing will put you in a professional medical position. That means you can expect the classes in nursing school to be tougher than most. Many of the classes will be scientific and medical in nature: Biology, Chemistry, Anatomy, and Physiology are examples. The first step in…
Home Care: Laughter Is The Best Medicine
By: Sherry Netherland, Director of Special Projects for Assisted Healthcare Services Our good health is a marriage of our physical fitness and our emotional well-being. There is something funny about laughter (pun intended). We are all born with the ability to laugh, and it would seem, the need to laugh. Laughter can catch us off…
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