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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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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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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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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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