6 Ways to Help Your Aging Neighbors - After fourteen long months, we’re finally venturing further from our homes. Yet, for many within our communities, spending the last year mostly in solitude is creating new challenges. While good neighbors have always offered a helping hand to aging neighbors, the necessity to help could even be greater now. From simple tasks to tech-savvy skills, a helping hand is greatly appreciated by older neighbors … [Read more...]
Keep your elderly or disabled loved ones safe this summer.
Summer means longer days, warm weather, vacations, relaxation, and fun. It can also mean seniors and persons with disabilities need some special attention to avoid heat-related illnesses. Keep your elderly or disabled loved ones safe this summer. At Community Care of the Northeast, our home health care aides are trained to help prevent the effects of warm weather problems. Many medically fragile people are at risk of being negatively affected … [Read more...]
Reduce hospital readmission with homecare
Reduce hospital readmission with homecare. Most hospital readmissions occur within the first 30 days following discharge. Providing your loved one with homecare during this critical time in their recovery can improve patient outcomes and reduce the possibility of another hospital stay. Here are some important factors that will help you determine if your loved one will need homecare during their recovery: Is the patient at risk for … [Read more...]
Celebrating 34 Years of Care and Service
Community Care of the Northeast is proudly celebrating serving and caring for seniors and persons with disabilities since 1985. Jean E. Langenbach, RN, BS and Nancy H. Steinke realized that the elderly poor and persons with disabilities were in need of services to age safely in their homes. Community Care of the Northeast began in Holmesburg Methodist Church and through the years moved to a Presbyterian church, then to Frankford … [Read more...]
In Home Homecare Caregivers: Meeting Needs through Relationship
As Stella was getting older, she started to have trouble with daily life activities. Stairs were difficult to climb so she moved her bedroom to the first floor. She stopped driving at night. Sometimes she would forget things, but she just figured that was normal. She fell once or twice, but she was able to eventually get herself back up so she didn’t mention it to her children. Her kids and grandkids worry about her, but they weren’t quite sure … [Read more...]