Skip to main content

Keeping Clients, Families, and Caregivers Safe During COVID-19

Official statement from Amada Senior Care

At this point, COVID-19 has already had a significant impact on many our lives. From closed down schools to sold out home essentials, we’re all feeling its effects in some shape or form.

Since the elderly are especially vulnerable to COVID-19, we want to ensure our clients, their families, and our staff that we are closely monitoring this situation and are taking every precaution necessary to help prevent the spread of this virus. The health and safety of our clients, communities and caregivers will always be a top priority at Amada Senior Care.

Amada Senior Care caregivers are trained on how to reduce the risk of infectious diseases. This training is something we continually stress in order to ensure its implementation. As we have always done, we strongly encourage staff and caregivers to follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines to prevent the spread of this illness. Hand washing, remaining home when sick and taking extra precautions when working with clients who are sick are especially important during this time.

We have also provided our network of locations with additional, COVID-19 specific information and training to help protect clients and themselves. If you have questions on the preventative measures your local Amada Senior Care provider is taking to prevent the spread of COVID-19, please reach out to their office directly.

We’ll continue to keep everyone informed as the situation evolves.

The post Keeping Clients, Families, and Caregivers Safe During COVID-19 appeared first on Amada Senior Care.



from Amada Senior Care https://ift.tt/3a2k8KU
via IFTTT

Labels

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Connection Between Aging, Exercise, and Healthy Lungs

Enjoying a long and healthy retirement requires taking good care of yourself. While many people focus on living a heart-smart lifestyle, taking proactive steps to maintain healthy lungs is essential, too. As we age, the lungs become weaker and less flexible. This can contribute to a variety of diseases and chronic health conditions. According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute , lung-related illnesses are the 3rd leading cause of death in this country. That includes lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and asthma—adding up to nearly 235,000 deaths a year. Here are a few tips you can use to keep your lungs healthy: Stop smoking. Talk with your primary care physician about smoking cessation programs. Avoid secondhand smoke. Research shows it can be just as deadly as being a smoker. Stay away from harsh chemicals. It’s important to avoid breathing in damaging fumes (e.g., home cleaners and weed killers). Prevent infections. Many infections can lead to ...
Post a Comment
Read more

How You Can Join the Fight Against Alzheimer’s

World Alzheimer’s Month in September is an opportunity to raise awareness about this complex disease and to challenge the stigmas surrounding dementia. Launched in 2012, the awareness month spotlights the fact that 2 out of every 3 people globally believe there is little understanding of dementia in their countries. More than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s or another dementia and it is the 6 th leading cause of death in the US, according to the Alzheimer’s Association’s annual report. With the senior population growing quickly, Alzheimer’s and dementia cases will continue to increase as well, unless researchers can find a cure. This upcoming Monday, Sept. 21, is World Alzheimer’s Day, a call to action for all of us to educate ourselves on how to take preventative steps, identify symptoms and support loved ones who have been diagnosed. Read more below to learn how to join the fight to end Alzheimer’s disease. Know the Warning Signs Detecting Alzheimer’s disea...
Post a Comment
Read more

Sleep in the Elderly: What is Normal?

If you are a caregiver for a senior, or even just have elderly people in your life, you may wonder about their sleeping habits. It sometimes seems that the elderly don’t need as much sleep as the average person. You may feel like the elderly in your life are sleeping a lot, or sleeping too much during the day. Unfortunately when it comes to sleep in the elderly, what is normal may not necessarily be what is healthy. Excessive sleep or daytime sleeping in the elderly are all related to sleep disorders and can be helped. How Many Hours of Sleep Does an Elderly Person Need? A pervading myth related to sleep claims that elderly adults need less sleep than the average adult. It’s not quite clear how this myth began. Perhaps because elderly adults tend to nap in the afternoons and sleep less during the night. Perhaps because the elderly tend to wake up earlier in the morning, it appears they do not need to sleep as much. Whatever the reason, it remains a myth. From the mid-’20s onward, do...
1 comment
Read more