Company News!
We would like to recognize a few of our special caregivers this month and give them a big shoutout.
Home Care Is Essential After a Mini-Stroke
Around 240,000 U.S. adults have a transient ischemic attack (TIA), also known as a mini-stroke, each year. About 33% of those people will go on to have a stroke within the next year.
Caregiver Spotlight
Home Care: We would like to shine a spotlight on a very special caregiver who has been with our agency for over 13 years. Her name is Barbara Sharp
President’s Lifetime Achievement Award
Home Care: The President’s Lifetime Achievement Award has recently been presented to one of our very own clients Betty Grenig.
Home Care: October Birthdays!
Home Care: We would like to take a moment to recognize our October Birthdays. Here’s to wishing all of you a Wonderful and Happy Birthday.
Home Care Assistance: Preparing Your Dad as He Shifts to Living Alone
Home Care Assistance: Your dad is becoming the only person in his house. He’s never lived alone, and he’s not sure he can manage.
Home Care: Three Reasons Home Care Can Help Strengthen Your Relationship with Dad
Home Care: For awhile your relationship with your Dad has been strained. Though you know he appreciates your help, he does not show that.
4 Myths About How to Act When Someone’s Dying
By Paula Spencer Scott, Caring.com senior editor (This is often an unspoken topic in our society, but so important in the transition from this life to the next. Please help spread this message by reposting. Steve Kramer) People often adhere to a code of conduct about the end of life that’s just not rooted in […]
Stories From the Road………..Setting an Example
(“Stories From the Road…Stories of the Heart” is about the personal experiences of over 200 volunteer drivers across America and how the simple act of driving someone in need touches their own hearts) As a working woman in the early 1990’s, I had the pleasure of serving a variety of people in the Knoxville area through […]
How to Communicate with People Who Have Dementia
Believe in their personhood The goal in caring for a person with dementia is their well-being. Tom Kitwood, one of the most respected voices in early dementia care and the author of Dementia Reconsidered, says that we can enhance the well-being of individuals with dementia by “facilitating a sense of personal worth, a sense of […]
