Five years ago, Louis LaRose had a stroke, paralyzing the right side of his body. Unable to get around, LaRose, 65, moved to a South Burlington apartment building where he could receive round-the-clock care through University of Vermont Health Network Home Health & Hospice. But the health agency is ending its 24/7 program on Nov. 4 due to staffing problems, forcing LaRose and his neighbors to reduce their care, hire their own caregivers or, possibly, move out.
My grandmother lived at the top of a hill overlooking the magical mountains and valleys of the Ozarks until the day we literally had to drag her off of it. Our family was spread out across Texas and California working full time, so no one was able to check in on her regularly. When she had home health workers, they helped with her medications and recovery after shoulder surgery. Overly friendly neighbors also helped by changing her will and emptying her bank accounts — a story for another day.
GE Healthcare and AMC Health today announced a collaboration that allows clinicians to offer Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) as a virtual care solution that extends patient care outside the hospital to the home environment. The combination of GE Healthcare’s acute patient monitoring capabilities in the hospital setting, along with AMC Health’s expertise in RPM solutions leveraging an FDA Class II 510(k)-cleared platform with analytics will extend the continuum of non-acute care for patients after being discharged from the hospital.
Under sunny skies, At Home Senior Care, a private duty home care agency with offices in Bennington, Manchester, Middlebury and Rutland, participated in the 2022 Alzheimer’s Association’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s in Rutland on Sept. 24. The Walk to End Alzheimer’s is the world’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for the care, support, and research efforts of the Alzheimer’s Association. Since 1989, the Association has mobilized millions of Americans to participate in the Walk. Many of the seniors At Home Senior Care serves are living with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias. At Home Senior Care said they value their members’ annual participation in the event as a meaningful way to honor these clients, as well as the families and caregivers who support them.
Preventing moral distress and promoting psychological self-care are essential for workers in long-term care homes. In a new report aimed at health-care leaders and policy makers, the Mental Health Commission of Canada, Queen's University, and HEC Montreal are highlighting these workers' needs in long-term care and identifying areas of support for this struggling sector. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, long-term care workers were experiencing chronic stress and burnout. Recent investigations by non-profit, media, and government organizations into the growing number of COVID-19-related deaths in long-term care sounded the alarm about the lack of support being provided to the sector in Canada.
A presentation on the Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program is scheduled at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Benicia Grill II at 2390 N. Texas St. Meredith Wylie, community outreach director for Welcome Home Care, is the guest speaker at the meeting of the local chapter of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association. Wylie is scheduled to talk about federal long-term care insurance. Those who attend the meeting will also have access to information about the Federal Benefits Institute and upcoming webinars.