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calling a job about an application you put in weeks ago that they ignored is literally so embarrassing. i really fucking want that job though
#a housekeeper at an assisted living facility is at least Adjacent to healthcare work#i applied to the same place i had to quit when i was a caregiver#but this time i acutally disclosed my disability. lol#its only right down the hill from my house I WANT IT SO BAD.
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What Is The Difference Between Home Care Training and a Care Home?
There are more people in the world, so more people who need help, like the old, need better quality care. It’s possible to care for more people in more ways than one. Greystone Retirement Home provides private or shared rooms, assisting with daily activities to maintain independence. Care homes and training for people who work in home care are two of these. Why do care homes do what they do? How well do they meet the needs of different people? To learn more about the Difference Between Home Care Training and a Care Home, click the link below: https://www.greystoneretirement.com/what-is-the-difference-between-home-care-training-and-a-care-home/.
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Fun Activities to Connect with People with Dementia
Dementia is a progressive cognitive decline that affects the brain and thus, creates difficulty in carrying out the daily activities of life, like meal preparation, cleaning, and much more. To reduce the progress of cognitive decline, there are some interesting activities that you can do with people diagnosed with Dementia. For instance, doing activities to improve sensory organs, doing fulfilling activities, or doing physical exercises. For more information on what kind of activities you can do with your loved one diagnosed with memory issues, read this post.
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Caregiver tips on how to manage people with dementia. Educating dementia caregivers is the first step towards spreading dementia care awareness. The challenges faced by people with dementia increase with their stage and old age. Advising and training the caregivers from time to time is crucial to ensure the conditions are managed better.
Epoch Elder Care is India’s expert in Dementia and Assisted Living. Epoch Assisted Living Homes provide holistic, Person Centered Care that enables elders to have the highest quality of life. Epoch has more than 9 years of relevant experience in India, and follows evidence-based global best practices. In this video we have Ms. Prasita Nair, our Head of Clinical Operations. She is a retired Army Captain with years of training in a military hospital, a registered nurse, with more than 14 years’ experience. She has done her MBA in Hospital Administration from Lucknow University.
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okay guys lets be honest with ourselves here though. like, for a moment,
to viewed & treated as an adult with "moderate/severe intellectual/developmental disabilities" you have to walk across a very thin line.
if you're too eloquent, your means of operation (ADLs, walking, talking, transportation, self-care) are assumed to be good. there is no true Passing, as an ablebodied/ableminded person online. IRL there are tics; there are deformations in the face, hands, that cue people into. "oh, you are not cognitively All There. got it."
if you are comprehensible, then it isn't that bad. you're basically an ableminded (read: normal) person. you're held to impossible standards of behavior, intellect, and motor skills - when you eventually fail their expectations, they react to it as a failure of you, as a person. that you did it on purpose. worse-case scenario, it'll spread that you're faking. your story of difficulty is just a ploy.
and this is if you're perceived and treated as an adult.
if there's visible, evident in text, that There Is Something Wrong with you on a neuron level? you become a kid. people are fascinated that you're online at all (and doubtful of your independence at this, another bell ring of are you faking?)
people mind their words around you. "fragile, like glass," is an understatement. i've had experiences IRL where strangers worriedly stood beside me, wondering where my parents/caregiver was. one woman got into my face, ignored my jolting away and stuttering, and moved my bangs out of my eyes. because it was Bad for me. (don't you know that?)
and that's, in person, when i have an adult's stature and appearance. where my drivers license has my 90s birthdate.
if your speech is broken - either in grammar or illogical - or you use assistive tools like an AAC board, speech to text, people assume that talking is hard for you. you need to be monitored by someone who knows better - you need to do as little as possible. you need to be away from everyone else; it's disturbing to see someone out of the SPED classroom, outside of the assisted living facilities.
and most of the time - even around the most sensitive, kind people and friends - i still fall into one or other binary of functional/nonfunctional. independent/dependent.
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When We Leave NEDA Behind, Where do We Go?
A Guide by Sharon Maxwell @heysharonmaxwell
NEDA has a long history of harming the communities it is supposed to serve. As we #leaveNEDAbehind, I encourage you to follow the following ED orgs who are committed to serving and supporting ALL folks with eating disorders.
The National Alliance for Eating Disorders
The National Alliance for Eating Disorders (“The Alliance”) is the leading national non-profit organization providing education, referrals, and support for all individuals experiencing eating disorders, as well as their loved ones. The Alliance’s services include:
Educational presentations and training days
Free, weekly therapist-led support groups nationwide (virtual and in-person) for those experiencing eating disorders and for their loved ones
Support and referrals through both a free helpline and comprehensive referral website/app
Direct, low-cost, life-saving, outpatient treatment to underinsured and uninsured adults in the south Florida community.
Unique and empowering Southern Smash scale smashing events and SmashTALK panel discussions.
@alliancefored | #notonemore | allianceforeatingdisorders.com
Project HEAL
Project HEAL (Help to Eat, Accept, and Live)’s mission is to break down systemic, healthcare, and financial barriers to eating disorder healing. Project Heal’s goal is to change the systems and, in the meantime, to provide life-saving support to people with eating disorders who the systems fail.
Project HEAL’s services include:
For those unsure of the next step in their eating disorder healing journey, Project HEAL provides free, impartial Clinical Assessments, followed by a comprehensive report with diagnosis, clinical recommendation, and referrals.
For those struggling to access treatment through their insurance, Project HEAL’s Insurance Navigation Program helps individuals understand their often confusing benefits and advocate on their behalf to get their treatment covered.
Project HEAL connects people to free Treatment Placements through the HEALers Circle, a national network of facilities and providers at every level of care. They also offer paid scholarships with providers with shared identities.
Project HEAL offers one-time Cash Assistance grants of $500-$1,500 to individuals who are unable to afford tertiary costs related to their treatment, i.e., housing and travel costs or insurance deductibles.
Crisis Textline: text HEALING to 741741 | www.theprojectheal.org
FEDUP
FEDUP (Fighting Eating Disorders in Underrepresented Populations) is a collective of trans+, intersex, and gender diverse people who believe eating disorders in marginalized communities are social justice issues. FEDUP’s mission is to make visible, interrupt, and undermine the disproportionately high incidence of eating disorders in trans and gender diverse individuals through radical community healing, recovery institution reform, research, empowerment, and education. FEDUP’s services include:
Support groups: FEDUP Closed Support Group for Gender-Diverse Folx, Support Group for Caregivers and Loved Ones of Trans & Intersex People With Eating Disorders, and Closed Support Group for QTBIPOC With Eds
Listing of FEDUP approved providers of therapy, counseling, nutrition services, and recovery coaches
Educational content about eating disorders
A conference for researchers, advocates, and clinicians in the eating disorder field where all attendees are empowered to participate, share their expertise, and learn from one another so that they can incorporate approaches that work - for our patients, our communities, and ourselves
@fedupcollective | fedupcollective.org
Nalgona Positivity Pride
Nalgona Positivity Pride is an unconventional eating disorder awareness organization that shines a light on the often-overlooked societal factors that perpetuate unrealistic and oppressive beauty and health standards. NPP offers a vial space for BIPOC to celebrate and embrace their bodies and identities. Nalgona Positivity Pride’s services include:
Education, such as public speaking services for universities, mental health and eating disorder organizations, and more as well as social media content
Consulting services for eating disorder providers and women of color entrepreneurs, including social media, branding, and event planning. Also, size diversity, creating eating disorder informed media, eating disorder harm reduction
An eating disorder harm reduction hub, including The EDHR Course and The EDHR Harm Reduction Community Services
2 eating disorder support groups: Sage and Spoon and The Eating Disorder Harm Reduction Community Circle
@nalgonapositivitypride | nalgonapositivitypride.com
Body Reborn
Body Reborn is a restorative space for people of color with disordered eating.
Body Reborn’s services include:
The Healing Collaborative - A free 8-week program for people of color. The program consists of three pillars: (1) Body Liberation, (2) Peer Support, and (3) Lifelong Community.
A non-hierarchical, discussion-driven conference that centers experiences of marginalized people in eating disorder care
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MEDA
MEDA (Multi-Service Eating Disorders Association) is dedicated to the prevention and compassionate treatment of eating disorders, so that every body has access to recovery and support. MEDA’s services include:
Assessments to individual therapy and groups, tailored treatment referrals. to hight levels of care, skill sessions to hels reach meal and snack goals, and 24/7/365 community available
The Sooner the Better helps communities learn the signs and symptoms of disordered eating, exercise, and body image.
MEDA offers presentations from a skilled mental health clinician on a variety of topics including Body Confidence, Eating Disorders, and Promoting Positive Body Culture in Your Schools and Homes.
MEDA also offers high-level clinical trainings for professionals working with eating disorders whether it is in the field of medicine, mental health, or education.
Annual national conference bringing over 275 people together to discuss the latest in eating disorder research and therapies
“Networking with a Purpose” meetings where clinicians come together to learn about specific aspects of treatment
Two graduate clinical interns are trained at MEDA every year, where they are supervised by clinicians and work directly with clients and loved ones.
@recoverwithmeda | medainc.org
ANAD
ANAD (National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders) provides free peer support to anyone struggling with an eating disorder. ANAD’s services include:
Eating Disorder Peer Support Groups
Recovery Mentorship Program offering free eating disorder support online for those who struggle with eating disorders but are motivated to recover. ANAD mentors are people who have walked the difficult road to recovery from their eating disorder and are recovered for at least 2 years.
Eating Disorder Treatment Directory
ANAD Approach Guides are designed to educate and “guide” its community on a wide range of topics, such as caregiving, pregnancy, binge eating, and navigating life after treatment.
@anadhelp | anad.org
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for some reason anytime I tell someone here that I became a caregiver for my grandmother during the pandemic, and I still am today because her health declined, they say something along the lines of "oh that's such a special/beautiful experience, I'm so glad you both have each other I'm sure that means a lot"... like ... what? did you not hear the part where I'm a disabled 22 year old who finally received a life-long diagnosis of chronic pain and have been taking care of a 90 year old since I was like 20, at least ? idk the way they phrase it makes it sound like 1) a choice I voluntarily made and 2) that it's an easy or pleasant task. Maybe they don't understand what I mean by "caretaking" so I ALSO say that I accompanied her to the hospital when she fell and made the decision to move her to an assisted living facility and at no point do they say what I would expect, which is "that's such a difficult situation for you to have to handle, I'm so sorry that your grandmother is struggling and that you've become her caretaker at such a young age".
Is this polite american speak that people are doing to me? Am I not explaining the situation clearly enough? Are people really afraid of death? Do they not want to assume that it's a gruelling experience despite some of them having lived through it themselves so they say that it's "so beautiful" and "such a kind/caring thing to do". like no. it isn't. no one else stepped up to do it and I wasn't going to leave my grandmother to rot while she became less and less capable of caring for herself.
#personal#me#2023 voyage#family#grandmother#americans if you have an answer please tell me. i feel like im adequately describing the situation so i guess its a politeness thing.
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Medical licensing officials in multiple states are scrambling to stop nurses with fraudulent academic credentials from caring for patients, after three Florida schools were accused of selling thousands of bogus diplomas.
New York regulators told 903 nurses in recent weeks to either surrender their licenses or prove they were properly educated. Delaware and Washington state officials have yanked dozens of nursing licenses. Texas filed administrative charges against 23 nurses. More actions in additional states are expected.
In some cases, lawyers for the nurses contend states are questioning the credentials of caregivers who earned diplomas legitimately. But there's wide agreement in the industry that nurses with fraudulent degrees need to be rooted out.
"The public needs to know that when they’re the most fragile, when they’re sick, when they’re in a hospital bed, that the individual who is at their bedside has gone through the required training," said Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, president of the American Nurses Association union.
States are acting in the wake of Operation Nightingale, a federal investigation into what officials say was a wire fraud scheme in which several now-closed Florida nursing schools sold phony nursing diplomas and transcripts from 2016 to 2022. Twenty-five defendants, including school owners and alleged recruiters, have been charged, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Markenzy Lapointe announced in late January. Those cases are pending.
About 7,600 students paid an average of $15,000 for bogus diplomas, according to prosecutors. Around 2,400 of those people then passed a licensing exam to obtain jobs as registered nurses and licensed practical nurses or vocational nurses in multiple states, prosecutors say.
FEDERAL AUTHORITIES IN FLORIDA CHARGE 25 PEOPLE IN CONNECTION WITH SCHEME TO CREATE FAKE NURSING DIPLOMAS
How did so many test takers pass without the required classroom and clinical work? In some cases, they were experienced L.P.N.s seeking to become R.N.s. Some had been health care providers in other countries.
The nurses got jobs across the country, including at a hospital in Georgia, Veterans Affairs medical centers in Maryland and New York, a skilled nursing facility in Ohio, and an assisted living facility in New Jersey, according to court filings.
Students came not only from Florida, but also New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas and Delaware. Many of the students took their licensing exam in New York, where they can sit it multiple times, according to investigators.
Investigators identified the Florida nursing schools as the Palm Beach School of Nursing; Siena College, a school in Broward County that wasn't related to the college of the same name in New York; and the Sacred Heart International Institute, which was also based in Broward County and had no relation to a university with a similar name in Connecticut.
It was not entirely clear how many of the roughly 2,400 nurses with credentials from these schools are currently employed, or where.
Federal officials shared information so states could pursue nurses with phony academic credentials. Some states have taken action.
The Washington State Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission rescinded the R.N. licenses of 17 people and denied license applications for four. The Delaware Board of Nursing annulled 26 licenses. The Georgia Board of Nursing asked 22 nurses to voluntarily surrender their licenses.
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The 23 nurses facing possible license revocations in Texas can continue working while their disciplinary cases are pending. Texas Board of Nursing general counsel James "Dusty" Johnston said more charges could come as officials develop "the necessary information for each individual."
A spokesperson for Veterans Affairs said it removed 89 nurses "from patient care" nationwide last year immediately after being notified by federal officials. The agency has not found any instances of patients being harmed.
New York's Office of the Professions posted on the state education department's website that it expects some of the 903 licensees who attended the schools "did, in fact, attend required hours and clinicals and are properly licensed." Those people are being asked to have a qualified nursing program submit verification.
Attorneys for some of the nurses in New York and Georgia say nurses who legitimately earned diplomas are getting caught up in the investigation.
"There are obviously people who bought transcripts who are fraudulent and should not be practicing nursing under any circumstances," said Atlanta attorney Hahnah Williams. "But there are also people who went to those schools legitimately and did nothing wrong. And they are somehow being lumped together with the fraudulent nurses."
Williams said her clients are hardworking immigrants who went to schools that were accredited at the time and have since worked for many years without incident.
Similarly, attorney Jordan Fensterman in New York said he has clients who attended classes at one of the schools to finish up their R.N. degrees and then worked during the pandemic. He said those nurses deserve due process now.
The state board actions are taking place as hospitals across the nation try to deal with chronic staffing challenges.
"Hopefully, the number is smaller once the authorities sort things out," said Kennedy, the American Nurses Association president.
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Bliss your Retirement as senior living at Greystone Retirement Home, Portland
Greystone Retirement Home in Portland provides a warm, caring environment with private, shared rooms. Our dedicated team assists with daily activities, ensuring residents remain independent. Nestled in Connecticut's serene landscape, Greystone fosters a vibrant community with engaging activities and events for a fulfilling senior living experience.
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Embracing the Golden Years: A Comprehensive Guide to Senior Living
People look for comfort, companionship, and a satisfying life during their golden years. The idea of senior living has changed a lot over the years. Now there are a lot of different choices available to meet the needs and preferences of our growing older population. In this in-depth look, we explore the complex world of senior living, revealing the many levels of care, society, and way of life that make up this important stage of life.
I. Getting to Know the Senior Living Scene:
1.1 The Change in the Population:
The baby boomer group has caused the population to age, which has created a huge need for senior living options. As the number of older people grows, so does the need for a wide range of personalized living situations.
1.2 What Does Senior Living Mean?
There are many types of housing and care choices for seniors, from independent living communities to assisted living facilities and memory care units. It's important for people and families going through this journey to understand the differences between these choices.
II. The Different Parts of Living as a Senior:
2.1 Living on Your Own:
Seniors can live a busy and independent life in an independent living community. There are often common areas, exercise centers, and planned activities in these places, which help people feel like they are part of a community and get involved.
2.2 Helped Living:
Assisted living centers offer personalized care plans for people who need a little more help with daily tasks. Residents are encouraged to be independent and get help with things like personal care and managing their medications while also having the chance to socialize.
2.3 Care for People with Memory:
Memory care centers give people with Alzheimer's or dementia specialized help and a safe place to live in order to meet their specific needs. These places put safety first and plan activities that will improve the quality of life for the people who live there.
III. The Part of Community in Living Later in Life:
3.1 Making Friends and Social Connections:
Seniors can have a hard time when they feel lonely and alone. To fight this, senior living communities try to make social places that are lively and plan events that help people make friends and connections.
3.2 Living with Generations:
Bringing people of different ages together in a neighborhood is becoming more popular among seniors. This method helps both older and younger people help each other and makes everyone's life better.
IV. Important Things to Think About When Choosing Senior Living:
4.1 Affordability and Planning Your Money:
When looking into senior living choices, the cost is an important thing to think about. Families can make better choices if they know how much different types of facilities cost and look into financial planning tools.
4.2 Access to and Services for Health Care:
It is very important to be close to healthcare services. A key part of a well-rounded senior living community is easy access to medical centers, rehabilitation services, and ongoing healthcare support.
V. How technology has changed senior living:
5.1 Solutions for Smart Homes:
Smart home solutions have been made possible by advances in technology that make homes safer and more convenient for seniors. Technology is changing the way seniors live, from voice-activated assistants to remote health tracking.
5.2 Doing social things online:
Virtual tools have become an important way for seniors to stay in touch with each other, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Virtual events, video calls, and other online activities have been shown to help people who feel alone.
VI. Dealing with Problems in Senior Living:
6.1 Staffing and the Quality of Care:
When senior living facilities don't have enough staff, it can affect the level of care they give. To solve this problem, we need to push for better training, competitive wages, and putting the health and safety of the caregiving workers first.
6.2 Following the rules:
It is very important for the safety and health of residents to follow the rules and laws. In order to provide the best care, facilities must stay up to date on new rules and follow them.
VII. Trends for the future in senior living:
7.1 Green and sustainable projects:
As people become more aware of the environment, senior living communities are starting to use more eco-friendly methods. Green projects, like neighborhood gardens and buildings that use less energy, help people live healthier and more active lives.
7.2 Customized health and wellness plans:
Individualized wellness programs that meet the specific health needs and preferences of each resident are likely to be a big part of the future of senior life. More and more people are turning to holistic methods that look at your physical, mental, and emotional health.
Conclusion:
Senior living is a big field that is always changing. This shows that we want our older people to have full and honorable lives. To enjoy the golden years with grace, you need to know about all of your choices, accept your community's role, and keep up with technological advances. As we look to the future, new ideas and a focus on overall health and happiness mean that seniors will have a happy and successful journey in their later years.
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Home Care: Making a Difference in your Elder's Aging Life
Matters involving parents’ aging condition are major concerns among siblings specifically when their elders live on their own away from them and visits become a struggle because of distance. If during a visit, a parent or both of them exhibit signs of difficulties attending to their daily needs or managing even simple household routines, it is probably the right time to think of their living situation. It should also trigger you to gather the whole family and plan for the appropriate care for your elders.
Because the aging population is growing at a fast rate, elder care services are also sprouting in every corner, making it easier for you to find one just perfect for your parents’ needs. Sending them away from home to senior facilities would somehow be a viable choice especially if it would be impractical and out of the question for you and your siblings to accommodate your parents in your own home. But the thing is, most old people disapprove of living outside the comfort and familiarity of their own homes, and as much as possible, they want to preserve their independence and dignity as they age.
If this kind of situation arises, you and the rest of your family can make your parents’ aging life an uncomplicated one by discussing with them the changes that would inevitably take place. You can always opt for home care, a senior care service that provides the necessary assistance for your loved ones within the convenience of their own home.
Providing loved ones with home care
Even if you commit yourself to taking care of your elders, you’ll find it really taxing and the need for assistance is welcome especially when you must run your own errand or you need to attend to important matters. Home care provided by professional caregivers could alleviate some of your burdens, particularly with daily living tasks of bathing, grooming, eating, toileting, and even shopping. If you live far from your parents, home care gives you peace of mind that your parents have a companion and that somebody is taking care of them and attending to their needs. For as long as your parents do not experience serious health problems that require nursing homes, home care is the best option for their living accommodation.
Providing a safe and elder-friendly home
Once, the family has decided to give the elder a home care, the next thing you should consider is making the house more livable and less prone to accidents if not totally free from them. This means redesigning your parent’s house to create a living space perfect for their aging at home. Floors should be maintained with skid-free wax and if you must have rugs, make sure that they are secured with tacks. Their bathroom and toilet must have enough space to move about taking into consideration that they might need a wheelchair in the future. Mount grab bars in their bathroom, kitchen or in any place you deem necessary. Remove clutters especially in hallways that would possibly make your elders stumble. Install security and communication gadgets so your loved ones can easily get help when needed.
Aging of elders at home need not be complicated and worrisome as long as you give it a great deal of thoughts and serious planning. A home care with a professional caregiver and a living space designed to fit their needs are just about the essentials for your parents to endure and enjoy their twilight years.
Welcome to Stepping Up for Seniors, a dedicated organization committed to making a positive impact in the lives of low-income seniors who require assistance yet lack the essential family support and financial resources to access the help they need. Our mission is simple but profound - to provide a helping hand and bring hope to those in their golden years who might otherwise be left without the vital support they deserve.
Our organization is not just a helping hand; we are a lifeline for low-income seniors seeking support and care. With a team of dedicated professionals and a network of compassionate volunteers, we work tirelessly to make a meaningful difference in the lives of seniors who have walked a long and challenging journey.
Join us in our mission to lift the spirits of low-income seniors and provide them with the care and resources they deserve. Together, we can make a profound impact, ensuring that every senior in our community can enjoy their golden years with grace, respect, and joy.
Explore our website to learn more about our programs and discover how you can get involved in Stepping Up for Seniors. Let's step up together for those who have paved the way for us and deserve to be cherished in their retirement years.
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This week, President Joe Biden signed an executive order on caregiving, which may sound like Washingtonspeak. It isn’t. It’s entirely possible that the order could make a real difference in the real lives of some real Americans.
But it’s still just executive action, which means there are limits to its potential. In that sense, the executive order is also a case study in the need for much more ambitious action ― action that will take a lot of work on politics and maybe some work on policy as well.
The order is basically an instruction to federal agencies to figure out ways of making child care and care for the elderly and people with disabilities more affordable, accessible and reliable ― all while helping out the caregivers themselves.
The need for that kind of action is clear enough, or at least it should be.
Just this week, data analyst Jeremy Ney published an article showing that millions of Americans are paying a quarter of their incomes on outside child care, according to newly released Labor Department data. As Ney notes, that burden is especially crushing for low-income Americans who simply don’t have a quarter of their income left after paying for housing, food and other necessities.
And then there are the parents who aren’t worried about the cost of child care — because they can’t find any.
Some child care centers closed during the pandemic. Those that didn’t or reopened are having trouble filling staff openings because of the tight labor market ― and the fact that if you’re looking for work, you might make more manning a register at Target than you can feeding, nurturing and watching over toddlers.
The child care workforce is still about 60,000 short of where it was before the pandemic, according to the U.S. Labor Department. In a recent article from The 19th featuring reader emails about struggles to find child care, some described waiting lists for slots that measured in years, not months, with one saying they knew of a child care worker who gave out waiting list spots as wedding gifts. (Yes, wedding gifts ― not baby shower gifts.)
The labor scarcity extends to the workforce that staffs nursing homes and other forms of assisted living, as well as the workforce that goes into people’s homes to assist them there, which is what most seniors and people with disabilities would prefer. In the face of these shortages, some of the people who need care end up going without help at risk to their health or well-being, while others end up in the large-scale facilities they’re desperate to avoid.
Policymakers know all about this. Biden and his Democratic allies spent much of 2021 and 2022 trying to enact a set of sweeping, potentially groundbreaking initiatives to make both child care and home care more affordable and more reliable. It was supposed to be part of what they were calling the “Build Back Better” plan.
But the initiatives were expensive, each one requiring several hundred billion dollars of new expenditures in the first decade, and they fell out of the final legislation ― later renamed the “Inflation Reduction Act” ― at the insistence of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and a handful of other lawmakers who opposed so much new spending. (HuffPost covered that history here, if you need a refresher.)
Biden and the Democrats say they haven’t given up trying to enact new reforms on that scale. But with a Republican House pushing for massive cuts in federal spending ― and holding the nation’s economic well-being hostage in an attempt to get its way ― the prospects for enacting such a program in this Congress are virtually nil.
That explains the executive order, which represents Biden’s attempt to make a downpayment on a much larger effort.
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There may come a time when you or a loved one is in urgent need of assisted living. These situations usually arise after a trip to the hospital due to a serious injury, such as a broken hip, and a person is no longer able to care for themselves at home, or the cost of in-home care is no longer financially feasible. In some cases, hospital social workers will not allow a patient to be discharged if care requirements are not met, which leaves the family scrambling to quickly find a board and care or forced to pay costly 24/7 in-home care.
Discharge planners, social workers, and nurses will often refer a family in this situation to a placement agency, and while this service is free of charge, a good fit may be sacrificed for immediate availability due to possible time constraints and a lack of other reliable search options.
If you find yourself in this predicament, log onto Care Home Central, a new website that allows families to search for all state-licensed elderly assisted living facilities in California by city. Each search can be as broad or detailed as desired, with search criteria including price, care requirements, number of residents, amenities, and even foreign-language requirements. Licensed care homes provide images of their facilities and details about their services to help families get an idea if they are a good fit. With Care Home Central, we welcome families to maintain their privacy while searching California’s most inclusive and up-to-date directory of licensed care homes and assisted living facilities. Just search the city of your choice and let us show you which board and cares meet your requirements in your city. Then use the provided contact information to call or send an email to the administrator, free of charge, no sign-up required. It’s that simple.
Let’s find the perfect care home for you today at Care Home Central.
For additional information on how Care Home Central works, visit https://carehomecentral.com/how-chc-works.
Care Home Central: Email Us: [email protected]
Call Us: +1 (925) 322-1397
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