Mary O’Donoghue took somewhat of a winding road to get to where she is now, the founder and managing director of an expanding home care agency. And she took that path to the home care industry, despite only being 33 years old. The unique stops along O’Donoghue’s professional path — training as a certified nursing […]
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Seniors with Alzheimer’s disease are dying in their homes more than they were nearly two decades ago. That’s according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on deaths from Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s, a fatal form of dementia, is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, making up 3.6% of all […]
Hospice and palliative care services enable a growing majority of seniors the comfort of living out their last days at home, but many have not yet turned away from receiving more aggressive forms of care before death. There’s no doubt that hospice care has been gaining popularity over the years. The percentage of patients ages […]
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) projects a 10-year 50% increase in the number of employed home health aides from beginning in 2008. This will result in an expected 1.38 million aides by 2018. Despite this increase in available aides, not all are equally qualified to care for the elderly, reported a Huffington Post blog post […]
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