The Utah Department of Health (UDH) is following CDC guidelines which verifies that home care workers should be considered essential health care providers. Of note, the ‘compassionate care’ example used in the CDC guidelines is ...
Protecting Utah Seniors and Healthcare Providers Amid COVID-19
We are ready. We are confident. We are still taking referrals. And we aren’t panicking. The one truth amid this unsettling time – we are all in this together. As healthcare professionals, we are witnessing ...
Caregiving for Change: Could How We Describe the Role of Caregivers Fill the Shortage?
Every week in our internal email newsletter our Homespire team shares moments where caregivers, nurses, staffing teams, and others impact a client’s life. We do this for one main reason: to inspire our team. Sometimes ...
Will A New Direction in Healthcare Shift The Way You Nurse?
Pioneering the Future of Nursing “We’ve seen the need to help our elderly loved ones live life with purpose and passion. We think we are succeeding just by keeping people out of the hospital. That’s ...
5 Tips to Transform Seniors into Proactive Planners
Ever wish that more of your clients were proactive planners? Get tired of hearing ‘I’m not ready for that’ or ‘When something happens, I’ll call you’? At 86 years old, Mildred feels good and stays ...
Atul Gawande: Are You Asking the 4 Key Questions?
As Atul Gawande, MD, sees it, “we assume that safety and health are the number one goals [for people we serve]. But that causes suffering. We ignore that wellbeing is more than health, more than independence.” Dr. Gawande’s ...
Purpose May Be the Secret Weapon in the War on Dementia
Think focusing on someone’s purpose is fluff? Think again. Minnesota native Dan Buettner found that having a purpose in our lives is one of the nine factors that influence longevity. In his best-selling book the ...
What if Nearly Everything We Think We Know About Aging is Wrong?
That’s the question Dr. Bill Thomas posed during his Age of Disruption tour. Think about that question for a moment. What do you think the current aging experience looks like? What is that answer based on? ...
Senior Care: What Does a Life Care Manager Do?
At Homespire, Life Care Managers (LCMs) are a key resource for helping clients and families break the roller coaster of crisis that so many people face. As highly skilled and trained registered nurses, Homespire’s LCMs ...
Loneliness a Re-Hospitalization Risk for More Seniors
Health does not stand in isolation. We are whole people, and solutions for the current health and senior care challenges need to look at the big picture, i.e., the whole person as well as the ...
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