Heart Failure and Holiday Meals: Keeping Elders Safe at Home
It’s that wonderful time of year again. Holiday parties and family gatherings and lots and lots of delicious food. For many of us, over-indulging leaves us feeling sluggish and uncomfortable. For elders in our care who have heart failure, overeating or drinking can...
3 Easy Steps to Promote a Robust Culture of Safety
One in four Americans aged 65+ will fall each year. And falls are currently the leading cause of both fatal and non-fatal injuries in older adults. Even in homecare? Yes, even in homecare. While the home is often considered an overall safer environment for seniors,...
Get Prepared for National Handwashing Week!
The first week of December is National Handwashing Awareness Week! Why is this week so important? The goal of National Handwashing Awareness Week is to decrease the spread of the flu and other infectious diseases by bringing awareness to the importance of good hand...
Have you assigned ITK’s Diabetes Learning Path yet?
November is Diabetes Awareness Month! More than 30 million Americans have diabetes. And another 84 million are at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes. It’s an epidemic. That means chances are good that your caregivers care for people with diabetes on a regular...
OCTOBER ROUND-UP: Did you miss something?
October was a busy month at ITK! If you blinked, you probably missed something important! Here are a few highlights of what we covered. Oct 2, 2019: FREE DOWNLOAD: 44 Ways to Reduce Caregiver Absences In this post, we learned that the absenteeism rate for Caregivers...
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