Hospitals are for surgery and medical emergency. I delivered my children at home with nurse midwives. Thank God I do not have a major operation. Some family members spent few minutes in an outpatient setting for cataract and other minor treatment. I drove a friend for an outpatient surgical breast implant. Hospitals are not suitedContinue reading “Dying at home with family and caregivers – a hospice story of life with cancer”
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Senior care consultant to help you navigate the care of your aging parents
There are many ways to care for your aging parents. Knowing the health, financial, legal, caregiving, limitations, holistic healing and other healing ways to attend to the needs of your aging parents are important. You might need a day companion or non medical caregiver beside your parent who is now in a nursing home. YouContinue reading “Senior care consultant to help you navigate the care of your aging parents”
How to find calmness , a caregiver at your side
World, give me more bay area seniors who need 24/7 caregivers
I can refer them to care homes and other care team from hospice nurses, massage therapist, doctors, home helpers , companion, drivers, cook to caregivers. There is a gap in health care. You cannot leave nursing homes or skilled nursing facilities without 24/7 care at home. You cannot heal at the hospital for you needContinue reading “World, give me more bay area seniors who need 24/7 caregivers”
House cleaner, cook, driver and caregiver – takes a village to do in home health care
We can refer you to your care team from care homes for seniors, driver, cook, massage therapist, physical therapist, visiting hospice nurses and caregivers for seniors needing 24/7 care. We are looking for part time sales and marketers to help match seniors with her care team. Connie has sent us great caregivers and hasContinue reading “House cleaner, cook, driver and caregiver – takes a village to do in home health care”
Free course: What is respite care
Senior wellness and caregiving free seminar for bay area communities
A free 1-hour senior wellness and caregiving seminar is available for churches, senior centers, senior facilities , companies and other organizations. Email Connie at motherhealth@gmail.com to be added to the schedule. Must give 1 month advance notice to be added in the schedule. Prevention of emergencies for older adults Nutrition and holistic wellness for olderContinue reading “Senior wellness and caregiving free seminar for bay area communities”
What is the real cost of in home caregivers
Depending on level of care and if there is lifting and tube feeding, 24-hour care can start at $450. If it is just like a companion, light housekeeping, cooking ,shopping and other assistance in daily living for an ambulatory client, who uses a walker, it can be $25 per hour for a 4 hour period.Continue reading “What is the real cost of in home caregivers”
Texting helped me coordinate what seniors need and what is observed by caregivers
Thanks to smart phone, I use it to train caregivers. As soon as they hear coughing at night, they texted me about it and I brought the cough syrup med in the morning. Texting is the fastest way to coordinate care among many caregivers since at times there are at least 4 caregivers for aContinue reading “Texting helped me coordinate what seniors need and what is observed by caregivers”
Maximizing Quality of Life
In the bay area, some seniors rent out their rooms for additional income. Some seniors are still working. In Home Health Support services of Santa Clara county pays $13 per hour for caregivers for disabled or home-bound seniors and provide free health insurance and bus tickets to those who work part time as a non-medical health care provider or caregiver. Those with children who have good income get financial support from their children. Economic stability for the poor can be assessed from subsidized housing, free health care – Medicare and Medicaid and affordable caregiving from IHSS.
In-home caregivers can prevent re-admission and an important care team member
Hospitals are penalized for high re-admission rates. In home caregivers can prevent re-admission. Call 408-854-1883 for bay area in home caregivers. Caregivers work 24/7 and monitor the seniors at home providing preventive healing ways and emergency care prevention. As a caregiver for my own mother with groin pain during the last few days, I wasContinue reading “In-home caregivers can prevent re-admission and an important care team member”
Nurses and caregivers are our unsung heroes – spit and peed upon but working tirelessly
Why Family Caregivers Are This Nation’s Unsung Heroes | HuffPost https://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/why-family-caregivers-are-this-nations-unsung-he… Nov 1, 2016 – His fall on May 29 was my inglorious initiation into the ranks of the nation’s 34 million unpaid family caregivers. We are the untrained, unskilled family members who are all that stands between our loved ones and a nursing home ― or worse, ourContinue reading “Nurses and caregivers are our unsung heroes – spit and peed upon but working tirelessly”
IHSS Santa Clara County pays caregivers $13 per hour to help you care for your aging parents
Our caregiving team can help your mother or father needing in home caregiver, we are affordable depending on level of care. Santa Clara County IHSS pays $13 and you just add the difference. We treat each senior client like family. Aside from assistance in daily living, our service includes massage, light housekeeping, holistic care andContinue reading “IHSS Santa Clara County pays caregivers $13 per hour to help you care for your aging parents”
Caregiving notes for 93 yr old on oxygen, ambulatory and had heart surgeries
This season, with less sunshine and less exercise , most seniors suffer from falls, aches and pains. With a caregiver beside her on 24/7 basis many emergencies can be avoided.
Below is my caregiving tips to one of the caregiver caring for our client who is ambulatory , had many heart surgeries, eats well and on oxygen 24/7.