Brightstar Care Westfield
Westfield, NJ:
BrightStar Care Westfield
★★★★★ · Home Health Care Service · 560 Springfield Ave
5 Ways to Build a Culture of Caring
A culture of caring isn't just about caring for your employees and having them care for customers.
What Do People REALLY Know About Long-Term Care?
A survey finds that many Americans seem to know very little about long-term care costs.
Caring for grandchildren linked with surprising health benefit
Older adults who look after their grandchildren might also be doing themselves a favor, new research suggests
Big Raises For Many Home Care Workers Won’t Necessarily Help Senior Citizens
A $15 minimum wage will almost double what many home care workers are paid but won’t solve other problems.
Your elderly parent is home from the hospital. What happens next?
Many families step up to give care, but the demands on them get little attention.
Why the Arts Are Key to Dementia Care
The arts are a form of communication that can engage the intuition and imagination of someone with dementia.
What Are We Doing to Support our Valuable Family Caregivers?
About 40 million people in America care for a family member, neighbor or friend who has limitations in everyday activities. We call these people “family caregivers.” Most of them juggle work and family caregiving responsibilities, which can seriously affect their physical and emotional health. Together, this invisible workforce provides 37 billion hours of care, which the AARP Public Policy Institute values at $470 billion. That’s 470…
How In-Home Care Providers Can Prevent Hypothermia in Seniors
Visiting Angels has put together a short guide that in-home care providers can use to spot signs of and prevent hypothermia in seniors.
How to Build a Successful Acute/Post-Acute Care Continuum
Hospitals are forming networks with post-acute care and continuing care partners to ensure quality across the continuum.
Hospitals provide much more than health care
Gundersen Health System and Mayo Clinic Health System provide quality medical care to patients.
Why We Need to Pour Creativity Into Elder Care
The arts are a powerful tool to improve the quality of life of older adults
Inspiring Self-Care: Self-Care Tips for Family Caregivers
Home Instead offers self-care tips for family caregivers caring for aging loved ones.
What medicine can learn from the fire department about team-based care
Rather than assume that the culture we perpetuate is status quo, let us be open-minded enough to see its flaws and empowered enough to fix it.
Why home care workers struggle with low wages
With most aging Americans wanting to stay in their own homes, the need for in-home caregivers is skyrocketing. But unlike most other jobs, there's no federal guarantee that these workers get minimum wage or overtime. Special correspondent Kathleen McCleery reports on the challenge of getting care that’s reasonably priced while still paying caretakers a living wage.
Home Care or Nursing Home?
As people age, sooner or later, there comes a time when a new level of care is needed. Even individuals who have been very independent all their lives may require assistance after the onset of a disease like Alzheimer’s. When such a change in care becomes vital, a common decision to be taken is…
Honoring those who work in long-term care facilities
Long-term care facilities and staff say they want to honor the leaders who provide resident-centered care and a suportive work environment for staff.
Finding a Revenue Cycle Management System for Post-Acute Care
The post-acute care space lacks revenue cycle management systems that align with longer-term care, but finding a solution that centralizes medical billing across several facilities can help.
Medicare's home health care rules to focus more on prevention
Home health care will focus less on acute care and more on health maintenance.
Caregivers need to know help is available
As our country’s population ages, more people who are not health care professionals are caring for family members in their homes. According to the Mayo Clinic, about one in three
