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This Hospital Safety Checklist Can Help You Avoid Readmissions After Discharge

Karen Curtiss — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:43:09 +0000

Fact: 20 to 30 percent of all patients end up back in the hospital within a month. Often, it’s because they can’t drive to get prescriptions filled or make it to follow-up doctor appointments. Sometimes patients ignore signs of health problems after a hospital stay, hoping they’ll just “go away”. Older people often don’t want to seem like “a bother” to their family. Medication Mix-Ups Cause Most Problems A recent Yale study revealed that 3 out of 4 older patients leave the hospital unprepared: They receive the wrong prescription. They don’t fully understand their new medication regimen. They don’t understand [...]

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Co-Parenting Tips for a Child’s Care

Sara Klemp — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:44:21 +0000

Keeping track of important family information and schedules gets complicated when two parents are communicating from one home to another. After a divorce, the responsibilities of caring for a child are often divided between two separate homes. In “co-parenting” arrangements like this, it’s very important to communicate a child’s needs well. But when communication is difficult, this isn’t easy. Keeping schedules and vital information organized and easily accessible for both parents is the key to building clear lines of communication while reducing the potential stress and anxiety of parenting with an ex-spouse. Here are some co-parenting tips: Create a Calendar Between [...]

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Timesaving Tips for Today’s Busy Caretaker.

Tom McNulty — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:41:48 +0000

How to Create More Time and Streamline Your Life With Some Timesaving Tips Life has lots of moving parts, and all of them eat up the clock. As jam-packed most of our lives are, that’s a real issue. You have errands to run, shopping to do, meetings to attend, kids to drop off, dogs to walk, deadlines to hit, bongo lessons to show up at, and just for men: tackling all the projects on your wife’s “honey-do” list – a renewable resource if there ever was one. On top of all that, being a caretaker for someone who really needs you [...]

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Caring for Someone with Special Needs? Here’s Some Help.

Tom McNulty — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:44:47 +0000

Caring for a family member with special needs can be a lifetime commitment. Whether a stroke or other major health event causes a disability, or a condition is diagnosed while one is an infant, taking care of individuals with special needs comes with a unique array of challenges. While there are no shortcuts or magical solutions, CaringBridge would like to share five suggestions that we hope will make your life easier. 1. Learn Everything You Can. Research the specific condition and the caregiving needs it creates. You can ask special needs professionals about how to accommodate your loved one’s challenges, [...]

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Finding Long-Distance Caregiving a Challenge? These Tips Will Help.

Brent Swanson — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:33:20 +0000

Your heart may be in the right place, but until it’s possible for someone to be in two places at once, there will be times when caregiving from afar is the only realistic option. How you manage the long-distance caregiving situation will determine how well it works. Here are some suggestions to improve long-distance caregiving. Get to Know Key People. If you suddenly find yourself caring for an ill or elderly parent from a different city or state, you’ll feel better about their circumstances if you’ve met their caregivers, neighbors and friends. Is your parent in an assisted living facility or [...]

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