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Ken Accardi

Ken is the founder and CEO of Ankota, a company that helps any organization that helps older or disabled people live independently in their home of choice. Having grown up with a disability and a passion for healthcare, this is Ken's mission

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Top 10 Best Practices in Home Care - shared by Merrily Orsini

By | on 04, Feb 2011 |   Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices NPDA

One of the things we do on our blog is to talk about social media because we believe that the home care industry can benefit from sharing and learning through social media like Facebook, Twitter, Link[...]

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Overcoming Compassion Fatigue is Critical for Home Care Workers

By | on 25, Jan 2011 |   Healthy Caregivers Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices

I've recently read a number of articles about compassion fatigue. In short, people who focus their lives on caring for others are succeptible to become tired and less compassionate. Compassion fatigue[...]

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Home Care Scheduling Software for Snow Emergencies

By | on 12, Jan 2011 |   Home Care Best Practices Home Healthcare Delivery Management

I'm just bad luck... Last year around this time I had to cut short a trip with Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia when they shut down the office to manage a Blizzard, and yesterday I[...]

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Laurie Orlov's Aging in Place 2010 Recap provides Home Care Insight

By | on 29, Dec 2011 |   Senior Demographics Home Care Industry Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices Aging in Place Technology Home Care Technology

How did you spend you holiday vacation? Aging in Place expert Laurie Orlov clearly spent hers thinking about what happened in 2010 and what is likely to happen in 2011 in the arena of aging in place. [...]

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Scientists Acknowledge the Need for Home Health Care

By | on 13, Dec 2010 |   Senior Demographics Home Care Industry Health Care Reform thought leadership Home Care Technology

With the population aging and the ability to treat more diseases, the world is waking up to the fact that health care delivery will need to change. A lot of what we hear in the news is motivated by po[...]

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Maryland National Capital Home Care Assocation Conference Photo Album

By | on 18, Nov 2010 |   Home Care Industry Elderly Care Health Care Reform Video

MNCHA, the Maryland National Capital Home Care Association, held their annual meeting on September 15th and 16th at the Turf Valley Resolrt and Conference Center in Ellicott City Maryland. Ankota brou[...]

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Home Care Software Geek introduces Google Trends

By | on 03, Nov 2010 |   home care software geek

The Home Care Software Geek posts in this blog don't talk about Home Care Nursing Software, Private Duty Telephony, DME Delivery Software, Home Infusion Care Management or the other topics we focus on[...]

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Freakonomics Author to Home Care: Redefine the Problem

By | on 13, Oct 2010 |   Healthy Caregivers Home Care Industry Elderly Care thought leadership

In the past, if I was having trouble falling asleep at night, thinking about economics might have been the answer (counting sheep is economics), but that all changed after I read a book a few years ag[...]

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Ankota Guest Blogger Sherri Dorfman discusses the Silver Tsunami

By | on 29, Sep 2010 |   Senior Demographics Home Care Industry Elderly Care Health Care Reform Aging in Place Technology

One of the people who helped to organize last weeks session on the Silver Tsunami was Sherri Dorfman, from Stepping Stone Partners. She shared with me some great insights from her blog and I share the[...]

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Introducing the Aging Technology Alliance: A Home Care Resource

By | on 27, Sep 2010 |   Elderly Care Aging in Place Technology Home Care Technology

Last Thursday, I attended a seminar that I helped to organize entitled "Emerging Technologies for the Silver Tsunami" which was presented by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (www.masstl[...]

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Home Care Software Geek explains the Impact of Software Company Size

By | on 22, Sep 2010 |   Aging in Place Technology home care software geek Home Care Technology

The Home Care Software Geek posts in this blog don't talk about Home Care Nursing Software, Private Duty Telephony, DME Delivery Software, Home Infusion Care Management or the other topics we focus on[...]

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Aging in Place Technology Update for Home Care

By | on 07, Sep 2010 |   Alzheimer's Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices thought leadership Aging in Place Technology Home Care Technology Announcements

We often blog about "Aging in Place Technologies" and the reason is that we beleive that these technologies represent an opportunity for home care companies to do two things: 1) keep abreast of what's[...]

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