You’ve probably heard that there’s a coming nursing shortage, and by some estimates there will be a shortage of over half-a-million nurses over the next five years. That’s not saying that we need nurses to help half a million people…it means our country needs half a million new nurses! Those nurses will be helping millions […]
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For many people, a nursing home is their final home. Knowing this, many seniors want to avoid it as much as possible, and we can’t say we blame them. While there are many great nursing homes and assisted living facilities, the mere idea of having to move to one can send shivers through their bodies
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At first you might think that this topic is much the same as the last article we wrote. While they are related and interconnected, there’s a big difference. The last article was more about why people are living longer, while this one is about why there are more people needing senior home care than ever
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It won’t surprise you to know that, with there being more people on the planet than ever before, there are more old people as well. In fact, the number of people living over the age of 65 has gone up exponentially in the last century, meaning that more and more companion care services are needed.
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Without a doubt, elder care services are growing. There are many reasons for that, and we’ll get into them more thoroughly in a future blog. But we’d like to focus on one today: more healthcare is taking place in the home. At first you might think “well that’s a shame. Shouldn’t senior care happen at
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One of the biggest benefits of at-home care for seniors is that they are able to stay at home when a nursing home might be the other option. Instead of leaving most everything behind and being whisked to a nursing home, they can stay in their home and enjoy the elder care services we offer.
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In a previous blog we talked about how in-home senior care can be a great transition between caring for oneself completely and moving to a nursing home. Once our clients receive our elderly companion care of at-home healthcare, many of them want to continue staying in their home and might be perfectly happy living out
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Two decades ago the big joke was that every time a comedian would visit their parent, the VCR clock would be flashing “12:00. 12:00. 12:00,” It’s as if the fact that their parent couldn’t set the time on the VCR was some indication of how smart someone was. The joke only went away when VCRs
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In our previous blog we discussed the criteria that need to be met in order for at-home healthcare to be approved by Medicare. We also talked about how everything is usually covered for in-home care services, including the work of the nurses and the equipment needed. Not only that, but there are often no
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You won’t be surprised to know that one of the most common questions we get from our clients (and potential clients) is “who’s going to pay for this?” While in-home care is usually much less expensive than staying in a hospital, we can’t deny that it’s still a considerable outlay of funds to pay
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