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The Caring Professionals Resource Center contains a range of informative and useful articles, videos, and forms intended to support those receiving care and their loved ones, as well as caregivers, both family and professional.
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How to Find Affordable Home Care
How to Find Affordable Home Care Learn about the options for home care aides, including affordable options and insurance coverage. One of the barriers that keep people from seeking in-home care is the unknown cost. Home care is typically a new experience with a lot of unknowns, and one of those is how to pay […]
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Does My Spouse Need Outside Support?
Does My Spouse Need Outside Support? Review the early signs to see if a home attendant or long term facility could support your family. Debating care options for a loved one can be a heavy discussion. It’s good to remember that two parties are always involved and affected by deciding for or against care. Most […]
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What Can Your Aide Do? Read Here to Find Out.
What Can Your Aide Do? Read Here to Find Out. Confused about what your home health aide or personal care aide can do? This article is here to help clarify. Simply put, home health aides and personal care aides help people in their daily lives. This includes those with disabilities, chronic illnesses, or older adults. […]
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Are Medication Errors 100% Avoidable?
Are Medication Errors 100% Avoidable? Follow these top rules to avoid medication errors for your own care, or the care of a loved one. Medication errors occur with more frequency than most people guess. Through the FDA program MedWatch, over 100,000 suspected errors are reported each year from consumers, healthcare professionals and drug manufacturers. Medication […]
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How Does CDPAP Help My Family?
How Does CDPAP Help My Family? Learn about the consumer-directed care plan that allows family and friends to get paid for supporting their loved ones.
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Find a Home Attendant that Speaks Your Language
Find a Home Attendant that Speaks Your Language See how Caring Professionals has improved the way families understand home health care. New York City is considered the most linguistically diverse city in the world. Some sources have said that if you counted languages and dialects there are over 600 spoken within the five boroughs. We […]
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Prevent Falls & Potential Injuries
Prevent Falls & Potential Injuries One out of five falls causes serious injury in older adults. Help prevent falls with tips from the National Council on Aging. It can be easy to gloss over a topic like fall prevention if you haven’t experienced it first hand. A big myth around falling and the elderly is […]
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Home Care and the Holidays
Home Care and the Holidays There’s no place like home for the holidays–especially when all our loved ones are happy and safe. During the holiday season, traditions and celebrations are things our patients really look forward to. With regards to caregiving, holidays can be a time when family members are in abundance, or when typical […]
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Getting Around Town
Getting Around Town Learn about the different transportation options available in New York for seniors and the disabled. Transportation can be a tricky thing to maneuver when options begin to change or be eliminated for those in their older years or due to a new medical condition. Some people may be used to driving themselves […]
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Stay on Guard Against Scams
Stay on Guard Against Scams Phone, email and other scams can be even more prevalent during the holidays. The topic of scams on the elderly is important for both relatives of, and the individuals who fall into the older demographic scammers frequently target. Older generations have lived very full lives, and are often educated and […]
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