Friday, May 28, 2010

Keeping seniors safe when vacation like Wisconsin Dells Summer

These are some senior summer safety tips for summer vacations in locations like Wisconsin Dells.
1. Do not swim alone. Always have another swimmer along and be observant of each other even when only near water.
2. Apply topical sunscreen lotion with trips out doors even on cloudy days. Apply sunblocker about 30 minutes before going outside.
3. With picnic and cookouts wash your hands before and after handling food. Keep meat, poultry refrigerated. Take frequent drinks of cool water to remain adequately hydrated.
4. Wear a helmet with all bicycle, moped rides. Helmets should protect the head while not interfering with the eyes (sight), ears (hearing), and mouth (speech).
5. Pack the back up goods for travel. Pack your over the counters for unexpected symptoms like an upset stomach, pain, insect bite, nasal allergy, sun exposure, or minor breaks to skin.

This identifies 5 simple health strategies for keeping seniors safe on summer outings. Home Care Path LLC coordinates staff to assist seniors with daily chores to help prevent the senior from getting so run down they end up in the emergency room or permanently placed in assisted living facility. Have a fun summer!

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Our Relevance Why Home Care Path LLC?

Home Care Path LLC provides a service that helps keep seniors safe at home. Home Care Path coordinate staff to assist seniors to perform daily chores preventing the senior from getting so run down they end up in the emergency room or permanently placed in assisted living facility. Home Care Path serves seniors in south central Wisconsin. From Wisconsin Dells to Madison Wisconsin. More than eighty percent of older Americans prefer to stay at home and that percentage increases with successfully older age groups. In 2008, the dominant customers in the united States and world wide are consumers age 50 and older. The U.S. Department of census estimates that there are currently more than 36 million seniors in the United States and that by 2020, nearly 14 million people in the United States will be over the age of 85, and 84% of them will want to continue living at home. To do that more than half will need assistance with chores throughout the day. That is more than 5 million people. The United States is at the beginning of a huge shift in demographics. It is estimated 50 million Americans are currently taking care of loved ones at home. Many of these families do reach out for help in the form of senior care providers, which demonstrates why the service Home Care Path LLC provides is so important and needed. The fastest growing segment of the population is over age 65. Of those 65 or older, 5 million receive non medical home care services. So the business community is becoming aware that employees need assistance arranging in home non medical care for senior parents and relatives. Human resource departments depend on local non medical senior care organizations to facilitate private payment with easy access. Community business employers realize Home Care Path LLC offers an in home service that can help boost employee productivity and job satisfaction. Knowing seniors will be looked after while the employee is on the job.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Four Seasonings Catering & Personal Chef

Home Care Path LLC has been working with Patty Brunner Registered Dietetic Technician to develop in home nutritional guidelines. Nutrition is considered an important part of the seniors day. Patty will be providing suggestions on individual meal plans. Demonstrating value of presentation with serving meal. Discussing proper storage. Identify pertinent preperation for grocery store trips. Timing of consumption as relates to digestive quality. Patty brings a cosmetology barber back ground. This translates to excellent people skills and an understanding of proper grooming techniques. Patty treasures all animals and is expereinced with handling and caring for pets. Patty is a powerful informational resource on the Home Care path LLC team. Thank you Patty!!!!!!
Home Care Path LLC
web site homecarepath.com
email seniorcare@homecarepath.com
phone 608-432-4286

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

email seniorcare@homecarepath.com

Home care path llc's email address is now seniorcare@homecarepath.com. This is connected to web site address homecarepath.com. This will enhance the ease at which consumers communicate with the business. home care path llc coordinates staff to assist with senior with daily chores preventing them form getting so run down they end up in the emergency room or permananetly placed in the assisted living facility. Serving Sotuh central Wisconsin. Citizens of the United States work long and hard to maintain their home and its contents. Homes can be filled with objects that give meaning to the seniors life expereinces. Home care path llc staff work with families to help keep the senior safe at home. This allows seniors to continue to enjoy the benefits of the home and possessions they have worked so hard to retain. Home care path llc staff believe the senior does better when allowed to dwell in the place of their own choosing. The health giving benefits may go beyond the comfort of a familiar place. Many homes provide an unseen, unspoken, sense of wellness to the seniors being. The home is an extension of the senior , a physical memory. Seniors and their homes belong together.

Friday, May 14, 2010

homecarepath.com domain name

Purchased domain name homecarepath.com. This will be the custom web address. This facilitates access to the information on home care path LLC web site. A marketing strategy will be to post the domain name homecarepath.com on all printed material. This includes business cards, brochures, letter heads, billing statements and more. Will need to include employment opportunites page on the web site. This will assist employees in selecting potential work sites. This blog will need to be attached to the web site allowing ease of viewing.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Home Care Path LLC Nutrition For Senior

One of the most effective ways to improve a seniors health is with daily meals. Seniors enjoy eating with another person. Seniors enjoy adequate time for eating the meal. Seniors often need help making grocery list, storing grocery items, using recipe to prepare meals, cooking the meal, serving the meal, cleaning up the cooking supplies. Most seniors will eat more throughout the day with encouragement. A big part of encouragement is planning the meals ahead of time. The senior and the Home Care Path LLC staff cooperate to produce a meal. Eating planned meals at a consistent time daily can improve the seniors participation. Some seniors may require feeding. This can be as simple as cutting up the food to small bites and placing the spoon in the seniors hand and telling them to eat. Some seniors require staff to actually put the food in the seniors mouth bite by bite. Tips for successful feeding include having the senior sit upright with all meals, provide time between bites for adequate chewing and complete swallowing, small bites and small portions, have the senior sit upright approximately 30 minutes post meal. Always provide short encouraging phrases, chew the food, swallow it down, try a sip of this juice, this is good, we like this. Keeping a senior eating will always improve there over all health.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Wisconsin Dells Location House Of Wellness IHS

Wisconsin Dells boasts of having The House Of Wellness. This is an Indian Health Service facility operated and maintained by the HoChunk Nation. Contains a clinic with an MD and Nursing staff. Offices for Community Health Nursing Outreach. An indoor track with weight lifting room. Pools and basketball courts. Home Care Path LLC staff work to understand geographical location as well as the services provided by health organizations in South Central Wisconsin. Understanding providers available in the service area can prove beneficial to families of seniors. Sharing information is a way to keep the whole community safe. The House of Wellness would be an important resource for a visiting tribal member who becomes ill.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

TOILETING

Toileting can be identified as an area most private to the senior. Interviews often reveal a senior is unsure about toileting ability and patterns. But it is important to realize it is not just seniors. All individuals when questioned about toileting ability and patterns seem unsure. Toileting is something that must be done daily. Often seniors take more time getting to the bathroom. Seniors may not ambulate as swiftly as a teen would. Often seniors take more time with clasps and buttons. Seniors may not have the dexterity at teen would. Seniors may not void, completely drain bladder as quickly as a teen would. Often toliets are low and the senior may experience difficulty rising from the toilet seat. Seniors may be taking medications designed to increase urinary out put. This can result in more frequent trips to the bathroom. Seniors may use and adult breif or pad to combat drainage. Seniors using adult breif or pad would still go to toilet. Positioning of the adult breif or pad after using a public toilet may be time consuming for the senior. Toileting can be time consuming and may require help of another.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Death of a Senior

The first thing most individuals ask when a senior dies is why. Why did this person die. Most community members have an inner curiosity regarding death. One's mind repeatedly generates the thought "Why Did This Happen Find Out Now". The mind wants the answer in an understandable form that will allow the mind to replace the "Why Did This Happen Find Out" to "This Is Why That Happened So Watch Out". Often multiple varied answers will satisfy ones mind as to why the death occurred allowing them to move on in time. For example "the senior was not eating, the senior just had a pacemaker put in, the senior was 89 years old, the senior was running back n forth to the hospital short of breath, the senior never took the medication, the senior stopped cleaning themselves, the senior drank alcohol, the senior was depressed, the senior ate the wrong food, or the senior had that all there life. Often some of the staements can seem to fit into the minds memory of the senior. Soon the mind is able to convince themselves, yes this is what contributed to the seniors death. The mind helps convince the curious individual they know what happened, and can take acation to aviod that happening to themselves. The individual is now having perceptions of being safe. Staff who work in senior care soon begin to realize no one really knows why the person died. The staff soon understand knowing why someone dies has limited benefit. The real knowledge is where do we go from here. The person has died, the emergency techs were present, the coroner has been contacted, the funeral director has been contacted, the friends and family of the senior still need help.

Friday, May 7, 2010

Staff Help Seniors Stay Home

Home Care Path LLC coordinates staff to help seniors with daily chores preventing the senior from becoming so run down the senior ends up in the emergency room or permanently placed in assisted living. Staff provide scheduled visits to the seniors residence. The structure keeps the senior involved in the day to day episodes of life. The senior remains interdependent, and a productive community participant. Seniors and families describe these connections as positive healthy relationships. Staff recognize that all individual members of the community are interdependent. Both staff and the seniors share in reception of this positive experience. Facilitating community connections with a focus on keeping the senior independent and involved in the life they enjoy.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

International Professional Photographer Joseph Leute

Have consulted with International Professional Photographer Joseph Leute regarding web site. Initial consult resulted in immediate, positive changes to the web site design. Joseph Leute has a long list of web site enhancements he plans to implement on behalf of Home Care Path LLC in the next few days. Discussed the importance of web site as a tool for the consumer base to easily access pertinent information. Very impressed with this professional photographer's ability to incorporate color, light, and geometric lines, which seem to translate the comfortable sense of motion across the web page for the viewer. Postive flow. Home Care Path LLC feels fortunate to have to opportunity to work with the now famous photographer Joseph Leute.