Articles on "Home Care"
2012 Survey of Nursing Home, Assisted Living, Adult Day Services and Home Care Costs
According to the newly released 2012 MetLife Market Survey of Nursing Home, Assisted Living, Adult Day Services and Home Care Costs, conducted for the tenth year by the MetLife Mature Market Institute, national average rates for long-term care in the U.S. continue to rise. The average cost of a semi-private room in a nursing home rose 3.7% in 2012, from $214 daily or $78,110 annually in 2011, to $222 or $81,030 annually. Assisted living base rates increased by 2.1%, from [...]
A Legacy Built with Care–Elizabeth Cooney Care Network
Betty Jane Tate met her future husband in an unlikely place: a kindergarten class¬room. Young Betty Jane and Creston Tate became fast friends, but neither the young playmates nor their peers could have ever guessed what the future would hold. Today, sitting in the home the couple has shared for more than 50 years, Betty Jane laughed as she recalled their uncommon love story. “We’ve really been together since kindergarten,” she said. As they grew older, the pair’s friendship deepened. [...]
Grant to Study Consumer Preferences Around Decisions for Hospice Care
Altarum Institute’s Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care (CCCHC) has been award a one-year $328,000 grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to study consumer preferences related to quality measures for hospice care during challenging end-of-life transitions. CCCHC is partnering with the American Hospice Foundation to conduct this work. This will be the first study of its kind to assess consumer sentiment about the quality measures for hospice care approved by the National Quality Forum, and to [...]
People on the Move – Dawn Seek – Family & Nursing Care
Maryland National Capital Homecare Association Honors Family & Nursing Care’s Vice President of Operations at Annual Meeting Family & Nursing Care’s Vice President of Operations, Dawn Seek, was recently recognized for her demonstrated excellence and her outstanding contributions to achieving the goals and objectives of the Maryland National Capital Homecare Association (MNCHA) Private Duty Committee. The ‘Exemplary Committee Service’ Award was presented to Ms. Seek by MNCHA, a well-established trade association for the home care sector in Maryland and DC, [...]
Team Players – SenCura Home Care
“He has a better social life than I do, actually,” said Elena Pehrkon of her 92-year-old father, Philip Sharpe. Elena then recited a list of her father’s activities, including frequent visits to the nearby senior center, gardening and concerts. In fact, keeping up with Philip’s demanding social schedule has become a team effort. Two essential members of Philip’s team are his caregivers provided by SenCura Home Care. The company provides full-time, live-in care for Philip, ensuring that he can remain [...]
Home Care Providers Face Challenges
At article written by John Seewer in the Lacaster Eagle Gazette titled Aging baby boomers face home health care challenge details the challenges that home care providers face with low wages, lack of benefits while serving a rapidly growing aging baby boom population. According to the article: The U.S. Labor Department projects that home health and personal care aides will be among the fastest-growing jobs over the next decade, adding 1.3 million positions and increasing at a rate higher than [...]
Study Reveals agencies place unqualified, possibly criminal caregivers in homes of seniors
If you hire a caregiver from an agency for an elderly family member, you might assume the person had undergone a thorough criminal background check and drug testing, was experienced and trained for the job. You’d be wrong in many cases, according to new Northwestern Medicine research. A troubling new national study finds many agencies recruit random strangers off Craigslist and place them in the homes of vulnerable elderly people with dementia, don’t do national criminal background checks or drug [...]
People on the Move – Home Care Association Honors “front line” Professionals
Pa. Home Care Association (PHA) honored a group of Pennsylvania home care professionals at their Annual Lobby Day in Harrisburg last month. The front line professionals were chosen by the companies they work with to represent the various counties in Pa. More than 100 PHA members, along with their front line professionals traveled to the state capital to discuss the implementation of Bringing Care Home with their local lawmakers. Members met with Pa. State Representative s and Senators regarding several [...]
Celebrating 60 Years with the Help of a Home Health Agency
Theirs is a love story that most dream of having. Don and Polly Petersen met at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, where she was an art student and he was pursuing a degree in Engineering. “He stood out in the crowd,” said Polly. “I was instantly attracted to his charm and good looks when we sat at the same table of mutual friends while having coffee.” Married after their graduation in 1951, the Petersens had three children. While the couple [...]
Geriatric Nursing Leadership Academy seeks applicants
The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International’s (STTI) Geriatric Nursing Leadership Academy (GNLA) has become a premier leadership development opportunity to prepare nurses to care for this growing population. To date, this program has changed the lives of Fellows, their Mentors and the 20,000 patients they care for across 20 states. The newest GNLA cohort is accepting applications from 15 February – 2 April 2012. The 18-month GNLA is a mentored leadership experience. Each Fellow will select a [...]
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