Sentences with phrase «with elderly residents»
Profile With over 30 years invested in the geriatric nursing field, I have extensive experience with elderly residents dealing with a variety of diagnoses, their families, and my peers.
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Shelbyville is a typical northern New England church: a small congregation of 120 members located in a town with 1,000 residents; many of the members are elderly, and finances are a constant concern.
Community Chef is a social enterprise that provides quality meals for people nutritionally at risk, often the elderly, people with a disability, hospital patients and aged care residents.
«Legionnaires» disease is completely treatable with antibiotics and I do not want any resident of Morris Park who is elderly or uninsured to avoid seeking health care if they believe they might have Legionnaires» symptoms.
Little - known fact about me: I have a penchant for finding equitable solutions so that our elderly residents can afford to live in their own homes with dignity and security.
Housing needs, such as affordable housing and housing for special populations (the homeless, the elderly, disabled persons, persons living with AIDS, and public housing residents), and community and economic development needs, such as transportation, jobs, community facilities and infrastructure (sewer, water and roads), will be prime topics for discussion at the forums.
Lovely Impressions We finally had a chance last weekend to catch up with Bill Love, the sweet sounding southern native and former southern Battery Park City resident who moved down to Charlottesville, Va. in 2011 to be closer to his elderly mother.
With those tenants gone, the fourth and fifth floor would be converted into a duplex, and the building — which houses many elderly residents — would be modified to include an elevator to serve just those two floors.
Nursing homes are unnecessarily administering powerful antipsychotic drugs to many elderly residents, including those with dementia who could suffer life - threatening side effects, according to a new government watchdog report.
Such an expansion would particularly benefit residents of medically underserved urban and rural communities who otherwise lack ready access to primary care services, especially adults with serious and chronic health conditions that can be cared for in primary care settings, women of childbearing age, children and the low - income elderly.
Mexico, along with many other low - to middle - income countries, is experiencing a rapid aging of its population, and poverty among elderly residents there is far more prevalent than among the young.
The Harvard Chan researchers, working with colleagues in Japan, were able to conduct a «natural experiment» among a group of elderly residents of the coastal city of Iwanuma, located about 80 kilometers west of the earthquake epicenter, where nearly half the land area was inundated by the tsunami.
An elderly Utah resident with a Zika virus infection has died, marking the first such death in the continental U.S., health authorities confirm.
With no plans of altering his habits, Vincent simply drags Oliver to all his usual hangouts: the racetrack, a bar and a nursing home where he delivers clean laundry to an elderly female resident.
BUBBA HO - TEP (Grade: B): The King is not dead: Cult - film icon Bruce Campbell is an elderly, forgotten Elvis who teams up with Ossie Davis» JFK to fight off a mummy sucking the souls of their fellow retirement - home residents.
Humor Me (Unrated) Father - son comedy about a struggling Manhattan playwright (Jemaine Clement) who reluctantly moves in with his elderly father (Elliott Gould) only to be pressured to put on a production starring residents of the Jersey retirement community.
Her links to the outside world are few: the mail, the media, an elderly priest with a guilty habit of pilfering spoons, and a bedroom window with a view of the town below.Most longtime residents of Mill River consider the marble house and its occupant peculiar, though insignificant, fixtures.
About 30 elderly residents sit in a large, open entertainment area, eager to interact with canines from Therapy Dogs Singapore (TDS).
Over the years, pet therapy has become more and more popular, especially in nursing homes where the elderly residents can interact with them.
Why does a normally silent elderly resident now converse with the nursing home staff?
The San Diego Humane Society has already combined forces this year with the Escondido Humane Society and PAWS San Diego, which served elderly and low - income residents with their pet needs.
Wolf set up a pet food and supply table next to DMARC's mobile food bank in neighborhoods with a large number of low - income elderly residents.
These elderly residents became so excited by his visit that now a few remembered their own dogs, sometimes as far back as their own childhood, and were thrilled to tell stories about them, while all the time playing with Brownie, whose tail wagged wildly as he moved slowly from one resident to the other, giving kisses and licks, making everyone feel good and loved.
California: The ACME Foundation: Clearlake (veterinary care assistance for senior and disabled pet owners) Actors and Others for Animals: Greater Los Angeles area (pet food, spay / neuter assistance, assistance for necessary veterinary medical care) Animal Assistance League of Orange County: Orange County (pet food, transportation and veterinary care assistance) Animal Health Foundation: Los Angeles and Orange Counties (veterinary care assistance) AnimalSave: Green Valley (pet food, spay / neuter assistance) Animal Welfare Assistance Group: Monterey County (veterinary care assistance, spay / neuter; pet food and supplies for seniors, disabled veterans, owners of service dogs and others; pet care resources and referrals) Bad Rap: San Francisco (pit bull - specific assistance for finding rental housing and insurance) California Department of Social Services Assistance Dog Special Allowance (ADSA) Program: Statewide (provides monthly stipend to eligible persons who use a guide, signal, or service dog) Cat People: Bakersfield (cat food / litter, spay / neuter assistance, vaccination assistance) 661-327-4706 Cats in Need (of Human Care): Southern California, multiple locations (spay / neuter assistance) The Chester Foundation: Sacramento region (veterinary care assistance) FACE Foundation: San Diego (grant assistance for pets in need of emergency or critical care) FixNation: Los Angeles (spay / neuter assistance for cats) Friends of Long Beach Animals: Long Beach (spay / neuter assistance) Haven Humane Society: Redding (low - cost spay / neuter, pet food assistance, emergency veterinary grants for residents receiving Medi - Cal or Medicare) Clinic: 530-241-1658; Shelter: 530-241-1653 Helen Woodward Animal Center: Rancho Santa Fe (pet food) Helen Woodward Animal Center Animeals program: San Diego County (free pet food for the dogs and cats of elderly or disabled people) Humane Society of San Bernardino Valley: San Bernardino (low - cost spay / neuter) Humane Society of Truckee - Tahoe: Truckee, Sierra County, Eastern Placer County or Eastern Nevada County (pet food pantry and low cost / free spay & neuter programs for Pit Bulls, Chihuahuas, and those that qualify) Keep Your Pet: Sacramento (behavior assistance, veterinary care assistance, services for seniors) LA Animal Services: Los Angeles (spay / neuter, vaccination and microchip assistance) Marin Humane Society: Novato (pet care assistance to low - income seniors, persons living with HIV / AIDS and those receiving hospice services; please see website for complete list of services) Mercy Crusade's Spay and Neuter Clinic: Oxnard (spay / neuter and vaccination assistance) Mojave Desert Animal Rescue: Western Mojave Desert (pet food & supplies and veterinary assistance for homeless, unemployed, disabled, and senior pet guardians) Mountains» Humane Society: Lake Arrowhead (pet food, spay / neuter assistance) Napa Humane: Napa (spay / neuter assistance) Ohlone Humane Society Special Assistance Program: Fremont, Union City, and Newark (veterinary care assistance, pet food, spay / neuter assistance) Orange County SPCA Animal Rescue Fund: Orange County (assistance for veterinary care including spay / neuter) Palo Alto Humane Society: Palo Alto (spay / neuter assistance, assistance for emergency veterinary care) PALS: Pets Are Loving Support (veterinary care assistance programs for senior, disabled or ill pet owners) Pasadena Humane Society: Pasadena (spay / neuter assistance) PAWS / LA: Hollywood (pet food and supplies, veterinary medical care assistance, grooming, spay / neuter, veterinary care assistance programs for senior, disabled or ill pet owners, and other services) PAWS San Francisco: veterinary care assistance programs for senior, disabled or ill pet owners Peninsula CatWorks: veterinary care assistance for cats only Pet Assistance Foundation: Multiple Locations, Southern California (spay / neuter assistance for dogs, cats, and rabbits) Pet Orphans of Southern California: Van Nuys (veterinary care assistance) The Pet Rescue Center's Pet Pantry: Orange County (pet food, litter, and flea treatments for unemployed, senior, or disabled pet owners) Pets Are Wonderful Support: San Diego (pet food / litter, pet supplies, veterinary assistance, animal transport, temporary foster program, veterinary care assistance programs for senior, disabled or ill pet owners) Placer SPCA SOS Program: Placer County (rental deposits, temporary boarding, pet food and veterinary care assistance) Rescuing Unwanted Furry Friends (RUFF): Laguna Beach (pet food) Riverside County Department of Animal Services: Riverside (spay / neuter assistance) Sacramento SPCA: Sacramento (pet food, spay / neuter assistance) The Sam Simon Foundation: Los Angeles (free surgery for non-orthopedic procedures; free spay / neuter operations, including vaccinations, flea control, deworming, nail trims, and antibiotics) Sammie's Friends: Grass Valley (veterinary care assistance) San Francisco SPCA Animal Hospital: veterinary care assistance programs for senior, disabled or ill pet owners, spay / neuter assistance Santa Cruz SPCA: Santa Cruz (pet food, spay / neuter assistance) Santa Maria Valley Humane Society: Santa Maria (spay / neuter assistance, microchips, pet food bank) SEAACA: Downey (veterinary medical care assistance, spay / neuter, vaccination assistance) Sequoia Humane Society: Eureka (spay / neuter assistance) SHARE Marin Humane Society: veterinary care assistance programs for senior, disabled or ill pet owners Spay Neuter Animal Network (SPAN): Ventura (spay / neuter assistance) SPCA for Monterey County: Monterey (pet food, spay / neuter and vaccination assistance) Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation: Walnut Creek (pet food, spay / neuter assistance, emergency veterinary assistance) VET SOS: San Francisco (free veterinary care and supplies for pets of the homeless) Voice for the Animals Foundation: Santa Monica (veterinary care assistance)
New York photographer Larry Racioppo contributed his images of Queens residents grappling with their own damaged art: an elderly couple disposing of their Sunday paintings, and a man parting with the dollhouse he built for his daughter.
While there are signs of poverty throughout her photographs — an elderly woman wearing paper bags on her feet, a toothless man smiling at the camera — more striking is the sense of camaraderie among the residents, as seen in the photos of drum circles, kids wrestling with tire swings, groups of women sitting cross-legged on the lawn while singing and clapping their hands.
For example, more intense and longer - lasting heat waves threaten people with underlying health problems, the young and the elderly, and low - income residents.
Too often, elderly or disabled residents of long - term care facilities are not getting the attention they require and sometimes have to compete with dozens of other residents for the attention of too few staff.
Many unreported deaths occur in elderly residents with dementia.
Nursing home residents are generally elderly with rapidly failing health and often also have dementia or other forms of mental disability or disease.
Obtained a directed verdict on all but one count of a complaint and a defendants» verdict on the remaining count for two Fairfield County police officers accused of false imprisonment, unreasonable search and seizure pursuant to the Fourth Amendment, and malicious prosecution in a case brought by two elderly residents charged with animal cruelty.
As for financial abuse, this can occur without any warning signs whatsoever, which is why family members with elderly loved ones in a nursing home should stay vigilant for suspicious financial activity such as abrupt and unusual checks, additional names on the resident's bank account / card, unexplained withdrawals and loss of personal items.
As many Oceanside residents with elderly loved ones know, nursing homes in Southern California and throughout the country have been cited for improper discharges of patients, amounting largely to evictions or the «dumping» of patients.
Although federal law prohibits «chemical restraint» — using medications to strongly sedate patients with mental disorders or dementia who may engage in disruptive behaviors — recent reports show that several skilled nursing facilities in the United States overuse dangerous antipsychotic medications on their elderly residents, which is a form of nursing home abuse.
(a-1) A person commits an offense if the person is an owner, operator, or employee of a group home, nursing facility, assisted living facility, intermediate care facility for persons with mental retardation, or other institutional care facility and the person intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence by omission causes to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual who is a resident of that group home or facility:
The elderly are more prone to slip and falls, with over 27,000 Los Angeles residents aged 60 and older injured and 400 dead in 2007 alone, although people of all ages can take a serious tumble when negligence is present.
No. 747 v. Korolekh, the Ontario Court of Justice heard evidence from one resident of the downtown Toronto condo development whose daughter was afraid to play on her own balcony and from another who didn't think it was safe to have her frail and elderly mother stay with her, describing how she felt she had been robbed of «the ability to care for my loved ones in the comfort of my own home.»
There are separate programs with varying eligibility requirements for pregnant women, children, parents / caretakers, elderly and disabled residents.
Eligibility overview: Programs are available for pregnant women, parents / caretakers, blind, elderly or disabled residents, children, women with breast or cervical cancer and refugees.
• A Caregiver position with the Comfort Keepers where I can use my skills in nutritional planning and medical certification to help elderly residents.
Highlights • Nearly a decade of experience providing healthcare and personal care to elderly people • Reliable, mature and compassionate • Proficient in assisting residents with daily living activities and medication compliance • Highly experienced in promoting healthy socialization and interaction between residents • Effectively ensures that all basic services like meals, laundry and housekeeping are in check • Sound proficiency in identifying behaviors in order to assist them functioning in a better manner within the facility • First Aid and CPR Certified — 2011 • Possess valid driver's license and reliable transportation
Talented in general resident care along with a sound knowledge base of disease management prevalent in the elderly.
Provided primary resident care and assistance with daily living activities.Provided caring companionship to elderly and developmentally disabled patients.
It is usually a To Whom It May Concern Letter with special focus on a individual's skills in managing daily activities of either elderly or disabled clients, residents of a facility or children.
Position Overview As a vital part of assisted living facilities, resident assistants provide long - term care to the elderly or people with disabilities.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS • Over 10 years experience serving as a resident assistant for several elderly individuals and facilities • Highly skilled in assisting elderly in activities of daily living and preparing nutritious meals • In - depth knowledge of helping clients with routine tasks and complying with their needs and wants • Thorough understanding of different mindsets and psychological care needed for seniors • Comprehensive understanding of the programs associated with helping the elderly with day to day chores and activities • Acquired high commitment to serving seniors over the years • Possess good ethical conduct and integrity • Able to perform errands • Computer — MS Word and Excel
• Observed residents on daily basis, recorded their vitals and temperature, and ensured regular and timely medication • Offered companionship to an elderly lady four hours a day, cheering her up with conversations and taking her out in the garden on her wheelchair to get fresh air • Assisted in personal care including toileting, grooming, bathing and personal hygiene • Performed light housekeeping tasks such as dusting, sorting out laundry and helping in the kitchen • Prepared meals based on special dietary requirements for two residents of the old home on daily basis
• Well versed in assisting resident care in movement and ambulation • Able to demonstrate proper use, repair and maintenance of hospital equipment • Well versed in performing rehabilitation therapy in sync with patient care plan • Track record of working in environments catering to specific needs of elderly patients
Provided caring companionship to the elderly and developmentally disabled patients as well as providing primary resident care and assistance with daily living activities.
This release contains certain forward - looking statements with respect to the company's ability to acquire the UK Senior Housing Portfolio during the third quarter of 2013, if at all, and expand its portfolio in excess of $ 2 billion; its ability to build a diversified portfolio of healthcare real estate; its ability to broaden its investment strategy internationally; its ability to add a significant international presence; its ability to create one of the largest and best diversified healthcare - focused REITs in the world; Myriad Healthcare's ability to develop additional elder care homes, to be able to continue to provide the high quality of care to elderly residents in the UK and to expand its footprint in the UK's private pay elder care sector; the rapidly aging UK population and growing demand for more and greater senior care.