Questions to Ask When Choosing a Home Care Provider:
1.Can you please share your company's performance standards for their employees? 2.How long has your company been in business? 3.What qualifications, certifications, experience and training do you require of your workers? 4.Are your employees insured and bonded? 5.How do you supervise your workers to make sure the proper care is given? 6.Will the same caregiver oversee my case consistently? 7.Do you conduct a home visit before starting the home care service? 8.Do you work with my doctor in developing a plan of care? 9.Can you provide me some references from doctors, hospital personnel and social workers? 10. Has your company been involved in any lawsuits involving customer satisfaction?
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Are you prepared to be a care giver?
Go to parade.com for resources and advise on how to deal emotionally and financially with thos challenging role.
Boomers are shocked when they find out Medicare won't pay for long term care for chronic illness.
At most Medicare may provide a skilled home health aide for a few hours a day for a limited period of time
There are signs of progess. As baby boomers age so much needs to be done.
We must design the sysyem we want to grow old in. HOME CARE
Private companies have developed caregiver frienly policies.
Nike and Intel have adapted a couse of action for their caregiver employees.
Evercare sells employers the service of a "care Manager to walk their caregiving employees through a maxe of opotions.
Johnson and Johnson has created an online community that offers an array of resouses for deling with the bureauracy and stress the caregivers face.
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