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 Wisconsin hospital system is growing in the La Crosse area. On the existing campus of the Mayo Clinic Health System, a new building is in the works. Cranes and construction equipment are buzzing as a deadline of fall 2024 approaches. Construction began this past April on the new facility that will hold 70 beds and feature a new surgical floor, ICU, family birth center, and much more.
The D.C. Council voted Tuesday to spend more than $8 billion over a five-year span for health-care coverage for more than one-third of all D.C. residents, bringing to a contentious end a years-long fight over which insurers should hold D.C.’s highest-value contracts, covering health care for Medicaid recipients.
On a blistering hot Friday in August, Donald Winston, 56, lugged black trash bags stuffed with belongings up four flights of stairs to what had just become his first-ever home of his own. Winston sweated profusely as the plastic bags began to shred on the hard floor, but he beamed once they were all hauled, pushed or kicked into the studio apartment.
When granted anonymity in focus groups, physicians let their guards down and shared opinions consistent with experiences of many people with disabilities.
