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With person-centered care, painters can paint, swimmers can swim, bakers can bake, and fashionistas can wear their bling. Because when you need long-term care, what makes you, you, shouldn’t be left behind. Find more stories of person-centered care at www.carescout.com/stories. A special thank you to Brightstar Care of Gastonia, NC; Life Foundation Home Care; Home Instead of Meridian, MS; and Senior Helpers of Nashville, TN for raising the standards of aging care as CareScout Quality Network providers. #PersonCenteredCare #CareScout #LongTermCare

Excited to represent CareScout at the HomeCareCon Annual Conference & Trade Show hosted by Home Care Association of Florida Drop by booth #405 to learn more about the CareScout mission. Together we can reframe the aging journey!

Delivering person-centered care is a balancing act. You need to honor both a client’s freedom of choice and their need for personal safety. These goals sometimes seem to be at cross purposes. For example, if a client is advised by a speech pathologist to eat pureed food because he has swallowing issues, but he is a foodie who insists on eating solid food, what do you do? What if a client in the early stages of dementia wishes to continue cooking for herself and performing household chores but her children object? These situations raise thorny questions: Who is responsible for the potential risks that may arise from a client’s choices? How do you train staff to feel empowered to enact client choices in the presence of real or perceived risk? How do you honor a client’s wishes when their family opposes those wishes out of concern for their loved one’s safety?    We at CareScout are thinking about these issues every day. If you are, too, see Brian Kelley, PT, DPT, MHA's thoughts on how to balance dignity and safety: https://lnkd.in/ezc-8epp And let us know how you’re addressing dignity and risk. We’d love to start a conversation.   #PersonCenteredCare #AgingWithDignity #AgingCare

🏳️🌈 Happy Pride Month! 🏳️🌈   As we celebrate Pride this month, we’d like to give a shout out to all of the long-term care providers who take person-centered care seriously and make sure to address the unique needs of the LGBTQ+ community. At CareScout, we’re proud to support care that celebrates human individuality — this month and every month.  #Pride2024 #LGBTQ #PersonCenteredCare

For Guido Cubellis, owner of Always Best Care Senior Services of Sugar Land, Texas, providing person-centered care took on new meaning when his mother became a client. “It was such an eye opener,” says Guido, and “the best experience I’ve ever had running this company.” Guido makes sure that every client receives the same person-centered care his mother received. And over the years, he’s developed a range of strategies to ensure they do: ➡️ implementing multistep processes for client intake and staff training ➡️ honoring a person’s preferences and life story ➡️ enlisting “floater” staff to ensure continuity of care All lead to a better experience for client, family, caregiver, and provider. Learn more about Guido and his strategies at https://lnkd.in/ezaVcVCs #PersonCenteredCare #AgingCare #HomeCare

If you’re a home care provider, we don’t need to tell you that the home care industry has changed A LOT in the past few years. Median home care costs are up 10% over the last two years — not to increase profits, but as a necessary response to changing expectations, staffing needs, and more. Join us for a panel discussion with Samir Shah, CEO, CareScout, LLC; Melissa Reyes, President of the West Division, TheKey; and Asif Iwani, President and CEO Life Foundation Home Care to discuss how long-term care is changing and how home care providers are responding. Register now: https://lnkd.in/gCqSFm-7   #HomeCare #LongTermCare #AgingCare

In honor of #NationalNursesWeek, we celebrate all of the nurses who make a difference every day. And we want to give a special shout out to our incredible CareScout Clinical Field Team nurses who embody the spirit of our mission to help older adults and their families enjoy a more dignified and fulfilling aging experience. These nurses meet care seekers in their most vulnerable moments and have a crucial impact on helping families navigate their care needs.     Thank you for all that you do!   #ThankANurse #AgingCare #PersonCenteredCare

Are you a long-term care provider looking for ways to differentiate your agency from your competitors? Consider taking a closer look at your training practices and policies. The right kind of training in person-centered care can bring improved outcomes, tangible assessment data to highlight, and happier clients and staff – all of which you can help your business grow. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e75pkc4K #LongTermCare #LTCTraining #PersonCenteredCare

When even the experts – the ones who work inside the industry for decades – struggle to navigate the system, you know there’s a problem. That’s often the case in long-term care – even the industry experts find it hard to help their loved ones or themselves get the care they need. In a recent long-term care consumer panel sponsored by CareScout, two of the panelists weren’t just consumers – they were industry experts. Discover the obstacles they faced, and how that reinforced for them a need to develop better ways to navigate the long-term care system. Hear their stories: https://lnkd.in/eyEmFtNq #AgingCare #LongTermCare #PersonCenteredCare

Looking for ways to improve the quality of long-term care your organization provides? Try asking the experts: the clients and families on the receiving end of care. After all, they’ve been there. CareScout convened a consumer panel to hear directly from clients about their long-term care experiences. The panel of five included four family caregivers and one care recipient sharing their stories, and each offered helpful insights into improving the quality of care. Industry experts, take note!    10 tips from our consumer panel: https://lnkd.in/etBxhQBU   #PersonCenteredCare #AgingCare #QualityCare