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Meditation Benefits for Seniors
Older adults will find it beneficial to focus on all areas of wellness, including physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, social, vocational and environmental. These are all part of living in a healthy, happy way and having a good quality of life. It’s admirable...
How to Be Your Loved One’s Healthcare Advocate
If your loved one is aging, hospitalized or otherwise dealing with the healthcare system, it's normal to want to help and become their healthcare advocate. You may have the desire to ensure your loved one has the best experience and gets the best care possible. Many...
Patient Advocate Services | Patient Advocate Definition
What Is a Patient Advocate? The medical system is difficult enough to navigate when you are healthy. If you are ill, it's just that much more difficult to focus on getting the proper treatments and the medical attention that is best for you. That is where a patient...
What Is Health Advocacy? | Health Advocate Examples
What is health advocacy? During difficult illnesses and injuries, navigating the healthcare system can be quite challenging. When you are ill or injured, it takes all of your energy just to recover. You shouldn't have to oversee your healthcare treatment plan or deal...
Tips for Loved Ones with Dementia
Daily Caring provides useful care giving insight on a daily basis. Follow the link below for a tip on engaging and calming your loved one with Cognitive Impairment. Keeping fidgety hands engaged.
Call to Action for NC Elders
May 31, 2020 The Healthcare Advocacy Council of North Carolina is calling immediate attention to the negative impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on seniors in North Carolina and points of action that need to be urgently implemented across our state. Mandated COVID...
What we see in the time of COVID-19
As time goes by, we lose count of how many days it has been since the quarantine. Every day feels somewhat the same and we struggle in recalling events from a few days ago. What if your days were further restricted? Imagine being unable to visit and interact...
Nursing Home Issues Spotlighted during Covid-19
The article linked below makes an important point for the need to have clinical leadership at the top of organizations and systems providing care. We at Care Weavers see consistently that Assisted Living, Memory Care, Skilled Care and Continuing Care Retirement...
State Naming Nursing Homes with Covid-19 Outbreaks
North Carolina has been pressured from families, advocates and journalists across our state to release information critical for good decision making for some of our most vulnerable Citizens.
Ask Questions of your Adult Care Community about Infection
From the NY Times. Women Looking at her Mother in a Quarintined Care Facility Be aware so you can make an informed decision. We believe that it is important to be aware of Covid-19 cases in nursing homes, memory care and assisted living communities. The state of North...