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Get Prepared for NYC’s Next Heatwave
Extreme heat waves pose a significant hazard for older or homebound adults, and in 2020, that hazard is further complicated by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately, SelectCare Home Care Services has extensive experience preparing our clients for the challenges presented by the summer months, and encourages everyone to brush up…
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Facing the COVID-19 pandemic as home caregivers
SelectCare Home Care is honored to see our efforts highlighted so prominently in the Home Care Association of America’s article on facing the COVID-19 pandemic as home caregivers! http://www.associationpublications.com/flipbooks/hcaoa/2020/Summer/8/index.html
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What Does Reopening Mean for Home Health Care?
Safely delivering home health care during the COVID-19 pandemic has required caregivers to rethink nearly every element of their work, from the patient intake process to a caregiver’s day-to-day commute. Fortunately, caregivers, clients and administrative staff have worked together through these difficult times to create new policies and procedures that…
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In-Home Exercises for Seniors
Even before the closure of gyms across the country due to Covid-19, the CDC determined that more than one in four Americans over 50 were “physically inactive.” Now, after more than two months of self-quarantine, finding ways to maintain muscle mass, flexibility and balance at home are more important than…
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Finding Personal Protective Equipment – Challenges and Successes
SelectCare staff saw their first glimpse of the challenges ahead on January 31st in the form of a seemingly innocent email. The agency’s regular supplier of N95 and isolation masks was already experiencing stock shortages and the shipment would be delayed by two weeks. The news was inconvenient, but the…
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Delivering Home Health Care During Covid 19
The past few weeks mark one of the most humbling, challenging, but also inspiring periods in SelectCare’s history as a home health care agency. The COVID-19 pandemic appears practically tailor-made to throw a wrench in the normal operations of a home health care company: the virus is most dangerous to…
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