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In-Home Care vs. Assisted Living: Making the Right Choice for Your Loved One

Comfort Home Care

As our loved ones age, many of us become caregivers, and it can be challenging to balance the care they need with all our other responsibilities. With senior home care, your loved one gets one-on-one attention from a dedicated caregiver, which can lead to a deep, trusting relationship.

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Which Home Care Agency Is Right for You?

Comfort Home Care

In most home-health care cases, clients require some type of assistance with the activities of daily living (ADLs). At a minimum, your home-health aide should be a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) or a Geriatric Nursing Assistant (GNA). Begin by asking what tasks you or your loved one needs help performing.

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4 Ways Home Health Agencies Can Benefit Seniors

Comfort Home Care

Aging in place with the assistance of qualified caregivers provides significant benefits as compared to living in a nursing home or residential facility. At Comfort Home Care, our certified nursing assistants (CNAs) and geriatric nursing assistants (GNAs) provide highly skilled one-on-one home care and assistance.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

Joseph Gaugler is the Director of the Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation at the University of Minnesota, director of the BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence on Dementia Caregiving, and Editor-in-Chief of the Gerontologist. Alex 00:09 We are delighted to welcome S oo Borson, who is a primary care oriented geriatric psychiatrist.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

First, we have James Deardorff, who’s a geriatrician and assistant professor at UCSF in the division of Geriatrics. Like, it seems like most people with three ADL impairments, that’s often what we’re thinking about nursing home, or at least really 24/7 care at home or close to that. Good to be here. James 21:05 Yeah.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

And then I did a geriatric orthopedic fellowship and that was really an exciting opportunity to help hip fracture patients, but then someone knocked on our door. Eric: What’s a geriatric orthopedic fellowship? So I got to help create one of the first geriatric orthopedic fellowships. Eric: Oh, that’s fabulous.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

what happens at home, do you need a caregiver, what happens if they need something like imaging? She trained at UCSF, for geriatrics fellowship. Eric: Do you need a caregiver? Bruce: No, you don’t necessarily need a caregiver. There’s a lot of interest lately, in the role of caregivers in hospital-at-home.

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