As a family Caregiver, your role is crucial in recognizing the signs that your loved one’s care needs are evolving. Often, we hope the little things we notice are no big deal. But how do you know when to be concerned? How do you know when you may need to intervene? How do you even…
Starting Your Recovery Journey After a Hospital Discharge to Adjust to Your New Normal Hospital stays, especially unexpected ones, can be physically and emotionally challenging for patients and their families. While a hospital discharge marks the end of in-hospital care, for many patients, it signals the beginning of a new chapter in their recovery journey….
Five Ways In-Home Care Helps Avoid a Hospital Readmission After Discharge According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), one out of every five patients who are discharged from a hospital is readmitted within 30 days. Hospital readmissions are costly – reaching as high as $26 billion every year – and, more importantly,…
Often, we hope the little things we notice in our aging loved ones are no big deal. But how do you know when to be concerned? How do you know when you may need to intervene? You can use the letters in C.A.R.E. to ask if it might be time for a helping hand. C.A.R.E stands ……
A 2022 national poll from the University of Michigan on Healthy Aging, showed that more than half of adults over the age of 50 have helped an adult age 65 or older with health, personal, or other care tasks in the past two years. If you find yourself in this group, you may ……