Caregiver Pay Rates March 2015
The “Caregiverlist” caregivers submit their recent pay rate upon applying for professional jobs on Caregiverlist’s Career Center. March, 2015, survey results are in and the average caregiver pay rate continues to be $10 per hour. Remember, all senior caregivers on Caregiverlist are professional caregivers employed with senior care companies paying all payroll taxes and benefits, […]
Home Health Aide Temp Jobs Growing Fast
Jobs for home health aides working as temps or on a contract basis will see their job opportunities grow significantly over the next four years, according to recent findings. Temp jobs were the first to rebound in the U.S. economy’s recovery, according to Forbes. Nearly 3 million people are employed in temporary jobs today that number […]
Honor System Hopes to Marry In-Home Senior Care with Technology
In-home senior care is one of the fastest growing industries in the United States. I know because I’m constantly looking at senior care industry trends. This week, there was a new name on the in-home senior care landscape: Honor. Honor (www.joinhonor.com) recently received $20 million in funding to roll out it’s new service—a high tech […]
Bipartisan Task Force Seeks to Help Seniors Age in Place
Can senior housing issues stretch across the aisle? The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) is banking on it by launching its new Health and Housing Task Force. Leading the effort are democrat Henry Cisneros, HUD secretary during former President Bill Clinton’s administration and republican Mel Martinez , HUD secretary during former President George W. Bush’s administration. Joining […]
Seth Rogen’s Hilarity for Charity and Home Instead Donate Alzheimer’s Care
Hilarity for Charity and Home Instead Senior Care has partnered to provide more than 6,000 hours of care in-home support for more than 130 eligible U.S. and Canadian Alzheimer’s families in need through the Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Relief Grant Program. Seth Rogen and his wife Lauren Miller Rogen established Hilarity for Charity to raise money and […]
Easy Communication for Caregivers, Families Through App
Communication between caregivers and families of senior clients might not always sync up the way it should. The Carebridge app provides the ability to share information about a senior client with their families without needing to call them every time. When a user logs into Carebridge, they are immediately presented with the option to either […]
Elder Fraud on Better Call Saul
I love Bob Odenkirk. More specifically, I love Bob Odenkirk as lawyer-with-a-heart-of-gold Jimmy McGill in AMC’s Breaking Bad spinoff, Better Call Saul. After bottoming out as a criminal lawyer, Jimmy’s decided to try his hand, pretty successfully, at Elder Law.Need a Will? Call McGill! In last night’s episode “RICO”, our hero takes on Sandpiper Crossing, an assisted living […]
Discounts for Seniors
The poverty rate among seniors in America is already high and growing. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that the poverty rate for Americans 65 and older rose (albeit slightly) from 8.9 percent in 2009 to 9.0 percent in 2010. The growing cost of food, housing, and especially medical care, which tends to increase as we […]
What Caring for My Mother Teaches My Children (and Vise Versa)
I’m part of the “Sandwich Generation,” a term that is used to describe those of us who care for their children as well as their aging parents. According to the Pew Research Center, 47% of American adults in their 40s and 50s are raising a young child or children (or financially supporting a child over […]
Sundowner’s Syndrome: Sundowning and Daylight Saving Time
Daylight Saving Time — every year I hear more and louder voices insisting we do away with springing ahead, when we are forced to lose that precious hour of sleep. I don’t hear quite so many voices in the fall, when we “gain” an hour, except for many of my friends in the senior caregiving community. Sundown […]
Book Recommendations and Reading Lists Offered Through App
Reading books can take us to a different fantasy world with dragons and wizards, to a different time period such as Medieval Times or simply into the lives of people like ourselves living now. Books also provide a nice stress reliever for caregivers who need to spend some time unwinding at the end of a […]
You Are What You Eat: Senior Nutrition
March is National Nutrition Month and an ideal opportunity for senior caregivers to make sure seniors are getting all the proper nutrition they need. It’s easier said than done. As we age, our bodies have a more difficult time absorbing key nutrients. Certain foods can lose their appeal — medications especially can affect appetite or change the […]