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NIH Alzheimer's Care Guide: A Home Care Must Read

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One of our most popular posts on this blog was "Five Tips for Providing Better Alzheimer's Care" inspired by the work of and the keynote speech delivered by Dr. Verna Carson-Benner at the NAHC 5th Annual Private Duty Conference and Exhibition (PDHCA).  In this inspiring presentation, Dr. Carson Benner explained the stages of Alzheimer's in an easy to understand manner and shared tips on providing better care using analogies from caring for children.  Her moving presentation made a great impact based on its content alone, and in addition Dr. Carson-Benner shares her own passion.  In fact, she said that she was honored to be able to present at PDHCA, but that this is a topic she's so passionate about that she'd scream it from street corners.

For those of you who haven't been able to take advantage of one of Dr. Carson-Benner's classes on "How to Become an Alzheimer's Whisperer", the NIH has released a wonderful resource for providing care to a person with Alzheimer's.  It's easy to read, beautifully photographed and free.  In fact, you can download the PDF version by clicking here and you can order free print copies online at this link.  If you have further questions, you can call the NIH toll free and they can answer your questions in English or Spanish on 800-438-4380.

Ankota provides software to improve the delivery of care outside the hospital.  Today Ankota services home health, private duty care, DME Delivery, RT, Physical Therapy and Home Infusion organizations, and is interested in helping to efficiently manage other forms of care.  To learn more, please visit www.ankota.com or contact Ankota.

PDHCA - NAHC Private Duty 2010 Highlights - the Director's Cut

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The NAHC 5th Annual Private Duty Home Care Leadership Summit and Exposition was a great success.  We at Ankota met so many great people, learned so much from the presentations and got great feedback on our new comprehensive Private Duty Agency Software.  We also released some video highlights from PDHCA on our blog last week, which got great reviews.  In fact, one of our friends at NAHC shared their photos from the event and asked us to expand the video, so today we present "The Director's Cut".

PDHCA - Highlights of the NAHC 5th Annual Private Duty Summit from Ken Accardi on Vimeo.

We thank all of the presenters for granting us permission to include them in this video and to share some of their best practices on our blog.  We've already shared Five Tips for Providing Better Alzheimer's Care based on the keynote presentation by Dr. Verna Carson Benner, and Establishing a Customer Service Culture in Your Home Care Agency from the great presentation by Pat Drea of Visiting Angels.  You can visit www.ankota.com/blog to get the latest content - there's also an option to subscribe to the blog (which will email you when there's a new post).

Thanks again to all of you for an excellent meeting and for sharing your expertise and passion for improved care with your co-workers, your friends, and the vendor/exhibitors who support you.

Ankota is the pioneering company in the field of healthcare delivery management, focused on improving the quality and efficiency of health care outside of the hospital.  Ankota provides Private Duty Non-Medical Home Care Software, and solutions for advanced scheduling and care management used in other disciplines including certified nursing, DME delivery, Respiratory Therapy, and Infusion Therapy.  For more information please visit www.ankota.com or contact us.

Highlights from the NAHC Private Duty Leadership Summit

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Ankota had the pleasure of joining close to 400 practicioners and supporters of the Private Duty Home Care Industry in Phoenix from January 24th - 26th, 2010 at the NAHC 5th Annual Private Duty Home Care Leadership Summit & Exposition.  Care givers are the best people you'll ever meet and this meeting was no exception!  We appreciate everyone who came to learn more about Ankota and our new comprehensive software offering for Private Duty Care.

As a thanks to all the participants and those who were unable to attend the summit, we compiled a video summary with highlights of the event.

Thanks to all of the speakers featured in the video, each of whom granted Ankota permission to use their materials on our blog.  We intend to post more of the best practices in upcoming articles here on our blog.

For those of you who'd like to learn more about Ankota and our software for Private Duty Care as well as our Advanced Care Management solutions for Nursing, DME Delivery, Infusion Therapy and Respiratory Therapy, please visit the rest of our site here or contact us.