Tag Archives: Home Care
Assisted Exceeds National Healthcare Standards
Since 1989 Assisted Home Health & Hospice has been an industry leader in exceeding quality of care standards. Assisted, together with a team of dedicated staff and healthcare professionals continually strive to achieve Home Care Elite status and CHAP certification. The rigorous standards of excellence and review process know as CHAP (Community Health Accreditation Partner)…
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…
7 Caregiver Resolutions: A 2014 To-Do List
Original post:(http://www.aplaceformom.com/blog/caregiver-resolutions-for-new-year-01112013/) By: Jeff Anderson New Year’s resolutions are profoundly personal and intensely optimistic. They require us to candidly appraise ourselves and our lives, and to recognize areas of weakness and aspects of ourselves that need improvement. After all, we can’t fix a problem that we don’t recognize. Resolutions also require us to believe 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…
Hiring Someone to Help With Home Care
(Original posting:www.aarp.org/home-family/caregiving/info-08-2012/hiring-at-home-caregiver.html by: Carol Levine, from: AARP, August 20, 2012 Most questions about family caregiving can’t be answered with a simple yes or no. But the question of whether home care agencies are all alike is one of the few that can. And the answer is a definite no. Here’s some information you’ll need if…
My Parents Need a Caregiver – 4 Helpful Tips for Finding a Solution
One of the most common plea adult children hear from their parents is, “Please don’t put me in a home.” To remain at home and “age in place” is a primary goal for most older adults. Unfortunately, many families don’t plan for the day that Mom or Dad can no longer safely care for themselves independently. They…
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