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Prevent Hospital Readmissions with These Tips from Home & Hearth Caregivers

These days, lowering hospital readmissions for high-risk patients is a vital priority for hospitals. Healthcare Financial Management Association’s article “Two Ways Hospitals Can Reduce Avoidable Readmissions” reports that effective initiatives from 4 hospitals with low 30-day rehospitalization occurrences are to a certain extent due to collaborating with inpatient and outpatient care providers such as Home & Hearth Caregivers to supply a continuum of care with the professional home care Elmhurst families trust. The hospitals mentioned in the article provide the tips below to reduce hospital readmissions: Start preparations for a patient’s discharge on the day of admission. When an older...

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Osteoarthritis 101: Symptoms, Management, and How Home Care Can Help

Have you felt uncomfortable aches or tightness in your joints following periods of inactivity or excessive use? There's a chance you're affected by osteoarthritis (OA), the most typical form of arthritis. So, what is taking place within your body? The breakdown of cartilage material results in the bones rubbing against each other, leading to stiffness, pain and a reduction in mobility in the joint.  This type of arthritis generally has an effect on the hips, hands, knees, lower back and neck. If you think that osteoarthritis could be impacting your life, Home & Hearth Caregivers suggests getting a complete physical...

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Elmhurst, IL Home Care Experts Share Top Tips to Manage Osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis impacts as many as 27 million Americans, making it the most widespread form of arthritis. It is a major source of work disability and lowered quality of life. Yet, dealing with osteoarthritis doesn’t mean simply popping pills to reduce the pain. The Elmhurst, IL home care team at Home & Hearth Caregivers helps those with arthritis through a variety of alternative ways to manage osteoarthritis pain. After being correctly diagnosed, there are many tactics to handle the pain of osteoarthritis. Some ways are more traditional than others, but considering not everyone responds to various therapies in a similar manner,...

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When “Let Me Help” Is Harming Your Loved One

"Here, let me help you with that." "Don’t overdo it now!" "Maybe you should sit here and rest; I’ll take care of that." How often have we made suggestions such of these to older individuals, with the very best of intentions, of course? We want to do what we're able to help our senior loved ones; to help them stay safe and to care for them in the same way they cared for us when we were growing up. And yet, there’s a concealed danger in trying to do too much for seniors and denying them the opportunity to do...

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Redefining a Sense of Purpose in the Senior Years

Search online for “activities for seniors” and you're guaranteed to find numerous crafts, games, memory stimulation puzzles, and naturally, the requisite bingo. What you will not find, unless you really search much more, are the significant, beneficial activities that bring meaning to our lives. And yet, if you ask older individuals what they would most like to do, most of them won’t choose bingo, crafts and games. What they want most of all is to feel useful. The University of Minnesota details how the most vulnerable times in our lives are the first year of life, and a person's first...

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What Home Care Services Can a Professional Home Care Agency Provide?

In our last blog post, we shared the positive aspects of utilizing a professional in-home care agency to provide the highest quality and safest level of home care services in the west suburbs of Chicago. But specifically, what types of home care services are available to help older individuals remain safe and thriving at home? If you have decided that it’s time to search for in-home help for an older family member, there are a number of customized home care services available. The following information can help you narrow down the specific type of help your loved one requires: Household...

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At Home & Hearth Caregivers, we are proud to offer compassionate, family-like in-home care, respite care, and Alzheimer’s and dementia care services to seniors and families throughout Cook, DuPage, Will, Lake, McHenry Counties, including the following cities and towns:

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