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Older Drivers & Driving Safely
In recent years, the SelectCare team has been pleased to see New York City receive growing praise for becoming a great place to grow older, thanks to the city’s increasingly age friendly public initiatives, a wealth of hospitals and a public transit system that makes accessing resources easy for people…
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Inside Scoop on Poop
SelectCare’s clinical staff has provided New Yorkers with compassionate and comprehensive home care for thirty years. During that time, our staffers have learned that they need to consider every facet of a client’s life and bodily rhythms in order to spot new or growing health concerns before they take a…
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Advance Directives in New York – Planning for the Future
Do You Have Advance Directives? SelectCare offers a wide variety of home health care services to our clients throughout New York City, ranging from occasional assistance around the home to around-the-clock nursing services for people experiencing major illnesses. During every client’s free in-home health and safety assessment, Selectcare’s RN Field…
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Hidden Costs of Over Medicating
Geriatrician Calls for Holistic View to Patient Care If you worry doctors might be overeager to prescribing drugs to elderly patients, you’re not alone. During a recent Senior Umbrella Network – Brooklyn meeting at the Bensonhurst Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare, Dr. Jennifer Breznay discussed the challenges of polypharmacy (the…
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Winter’s Last Hurrah for 2015
“Taken during the great blizzard of 1888, when New Yorkers tunneled through snowbanks with nothing but harsh language and boot straps.” And here we are, folks, in the midst of what meteorologists are calling Winter’s Last Hurrah: a nation-wide snow storm expected to dump another 8” of snowfall in New…
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Long Distance Caregiving – A Personal Story
Part of my job at SelectCare involves meeting with prospective clients during our free initial home health assessments. While our RN Field Nurse Supervisors focus evaluating a client’s medical, social and safety needs, I get to know the client and their family, what they hope to gain from our services…
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