Articles on "Home Care"
Right-at-Home–Real Life Story
Mary Afrookteh loves her home in Catonsville, Md., and that’s where she wants to stay. However, a year ago, a fall that resulted in a broken hip made living at home more difficult. That’s when her family decided to hire Right-at-Home, an In-Home Care & Assistance company, to help Mary maintain her independence, but with some extra help. Mary was born in Lossiemouth, Scotland (home of the Loch Ness Monster). While her Mom was visiting her grandmother, Mary was born. Six [...]
P-B Health Home Care Agency–Real Life Story
Mrs. Ardis Watkins is a 96-year-old widow who enjoys a comfortable and peaceful retirement in the Evergreen neighborhood of West Baltimore. She was born in Chester, South Carolina on January 4,1917, to Thomas and Dora Buckson. Her mother was a teacher, while her father commuted to Baltimore to work at Sparrows Point. As a young woman, Miss Ardis Buckson moved to Baltimore City to start her adult life. Here, she met and married Mr. Norbon Watkins, and from this union [...]
Visiting Angels-Real Life Story
After her mother passed away, Ann May knew that her father, Robert (“Bob”) Maroncelli, was no longer going to be able to live independently. As a nurse with more than 20 years of experience in the home care industry, Ann was well aware of the array of home care options available, and she knew that her father wanted to remain in his long-time home. Bob and his wife, “Mickey,” moved to their home in Buckingham Springs retirement community several decades [...]
Personal Touch Home Care-Real Life Story
“I was kind of scared,” admitted Michael Bachman when recalling his mother’s sudden move into his home. The Director of Information Technology Client Services at Towson University and an adjunct professor, Michael was preparing for a new school year when his mother, Mildred Bachman, fell and broke her wrist at her home in Allentown, Pa. Mildred’s fall was the first of several health problems that resulted in her moving into Michael’s home. “It’s nearly impossible to envision the amount of [...]
Capital City Nurses–Real Life Profile
Marion van Binsbergen Pritchard was attending the school of social work in Amsterdam, Holland, when the Germans invaded the country. Like so many of her peers, WWII dramatically altered the course of her life. Her transition from college student to rescue worker was gradual, but seemingly inevitable. Early in the occupation, Marion was asked by her supervisor to take home the young son of a Jewish couple before they were deported. However, her life as an insurgent really began when [...]
Specialty Care Services–Real Life Profile
Mercedes Palmer started taking care of others at an early age, and was a caregiver for her own father for the last decade of his life when he came to live with her family. “My mother is an amazing woman,” said her daughter, Anne Palmer. “She has a genuine caregiver mentality.” The oldest of four children, Mercedes began caring for the well being of her siblings and father as a result of the premature passing of her mother. At the [...]
People on the Move – HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE
HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION WELCOMES NEW BOARD MEMBERS Hospice of the Chesapeake announced today that the following business and community leaders were appointed in February to the Hospice of the Chesapeake Foundation Board of Directors. Tim McDonough, owner of TM Designs, an interior design company based in McLean, VA. McDonough was the lead designer for the Maryland Green Designer Show Home in Gambrills and serves on the Hospice of the Chesapeake’s Gala Committee and is co-chairman of the nonprofit’s [...]
Study: Beneficiaries Increasingly Moved to Hospice
Some 42.2% of Medicare beneficiaries died in hospice care in 2009 compared with 21.6% in 2000, according to a retrospective cohort study. However, that finding is clouded by the fact that just over a quarter of those using hospice (28.4%) in 2009 did so for fewer than 3 days and 40.3% of them moved to hospice after intensive care unit (ICU) stays. The researchers found that 24.6% of Medicare beneficiaries died in acute care hospitals in 2009, which was a [...]
People on the Move – CareOptions
Care Options one of the most experienced and respected care management company in the Washington metropolitan area is pleased to announce that Linda Kunkel will transition from her position as Director of Caregiving Services department of CareOptions to Director of Marketing at CareOptions. Diana Gilbert will serve as the new Director of Caregiving Services. For more information: www.careoptionsva.com Contacts: Diana (703) 538-6838 email at dgilbert@careoptionsva.com Linda (703)237-9048 email at lkunkel@careoptionsva.com
Hospices Turn Away Patients Without Caregivers At Home
NPR reports that Twelve percent of hospices nationwide refuse to accept patients who don’t have a caregiver at home to look after them, according to a recent survey of nearly 600 hospice providers published in Health Affairs. That doesn’t jibe with the reality facing many hospice patients — roughly 42 percent of whom were living in a private home when they died, according to numbers for 2011 provided by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. And it’s not uncommon [...]
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