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Sheila Korn, President
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Hello and welcome to
TRANSITIONAL SOLUTIONS, an
informative monthly newsletter that offers tips on caregiver solutions, and articles on how to ease the transition home for your elderly
patients. We provide many options for seniors -- options that make life
less complicated.
Seniors At Home, Inc. in
San Diego offers highly trained, bonded, and insured caregivers who serve seniors in Hillcrest, La Mesa, Tierrasanta, Rancho Bernardo, La Jolla, and other areas of the county. We are a non-medical home care agency that provides relief to family caregivers and assists seniors with personal care coordination, shopping, light housekeeping, cooking, transportation, medication reminders, exercising, and much more. We invite you to review our services so we can be a resource to you. We are a member of the BBB, The Fall Prevention Task Force, The San Diego Eldercare Resource Team and we are certified by CASHAH. The California Association for Health Services at Home (CAHSAH) has established a certification program for companies that provide in-home non-medical caregiving services. Because the state of California does not regulate such companies, the CAHSAH certification protects both those who receive caregiving services and their caregivers.
Please don't hesitate to call for more information or if you need assistance or know someone who could use our caregiving services. We are here to help you stay in your home, but not alone.
Enjoy our newsletter;
we hope you will find it interesting and helpful. To learn about our caregivers and the services we provide, visit us at
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Ensuring the Health
and Well-being for Your After-care Patients
 As a medical professional, your care for a patient may not always end when he or she leaves your facility. You may have the added responsibility of referring your patient to an extended-care facility or an in-home personal attendant. According to an article in "Home Health Care Management & Practice," author Frances M. Weaver, Ph.D., says that patients require "Recommendations for improving the transition from hospital to home included providing more information, more reassurance and emotional support, and more household assistance."
If your responsibility includes improving your patient's transition from hospital to home, ask yourself a few questions before making a referral:
· Is a full-service agency providing in-home care?
· What training has the agency provided to its personal attendants?
· What background checks have been performed?
· Are the agency's personal attendants bonded, insured, and do they have clean DMV records?
· Does the agency do in-home assessments to ensure for accessibility, safe transfers, and to reduce the risk of falls?
· Does the agency perform surprise visits to ensure the highest quality of service for my patient?
· Will there be a trained, qualified personal attendant to take responsibility for getting my patient home, as well as assist with such things as prescription pick up, meal planning and preparation, bathing assistance, or tuck-in, if necessary?
By getting the facts about your patient's after-care needs and arrangements, you can make informed and safe referrals. Many full-service agencies provide bonded, vetted, and insured professionals for in-home care on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis. Since full-service agencies employ their personal attendants, the agency alone assumes full responsibility for workers' compensation, professional liability, payment of employer-related taxes, and all other liabilities arising from the employer/employee relationship. Your patient does not have to take on these responsibilities and can concentrate his or her efforts on regaining strength and becoming healthy once again.
The professional personal attendants employed by a full-service in-home care agency provide a variety of services to ensure that a discharged patient will transition comfortably and safely home. Trained in several areas such as CPR/First Aid, healthy meal planning and preparation, and specialized medical conditions (such as diabetes, Alzheimer's, arthritis, etc.), personal attendants are primed to handle your patient's return home safely and professionally.
You and your patient can have peace of mind knowing a professional personal attendant will get your patient home comfortably and safely. Many agencies also offer free, in-home assessments, if necessary, to ensure a safe, accessible environment.
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"The years between 50 and 70 are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
T. S. Eliot
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