Oklahoma Home Healthcare: Best Blogs

Oklahoma Home Healthcare: Best Blogs

Oklahoma-Home-Healthcare-Best-Blogshealthcare blogs deliver valuable insights from the perspective of the providers. While many of them are the voice of a particular organization, such as the Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare and Nurse Next Door, they tend to be written by companions, nurses, medical assistants, and others who work in home healthcare.

Others are hosted and updated by individual specialists, such as Alesha E. Churba’s “Design with the Future in Mind”. Cumulatively, these blogs provide Oklahoma home healthcare providers with a valuable perspective on modern care needs and concerns.

Nurse Next Door

Nurse Next Door was established in 2001 to deliver what the site calls “elder care services that are unmatched in compassion, quality and ability.” Today it has over 100 locations in the United States and Canada. Services available to seniors range from walking companions to registered nurses who provide more complex care levels.

The organization’s blog features topics like how to prevent falls and care for older adults with dementia or severe anxiety issues.  Once a month Anne Rockingham, Director of Clinical Operations in North America, publishes a column with advice and tips on how to deal with every day, challenging home healthcare issues.

Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare

Established in 2010 to work with government officials to make quality home healthcare more accessible, the Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare represents close to 3,000 care agencies nationwide. The site blog publishes healthcare news, information on medical supplies and pharmaceuticals, and social commentary on issues like properly honoring veterans.

Home Health Insight

Run by home healthcare veteran Lisa Selman-Holman, Home Healthcare Insight posts are focused more on medical industry advancements and current healthcare technology than personal stories about working in the field. The industry-oriented content still makes it a valuable resource, as it has a lot of great information about future policies and new machines.

Design with the Future in Mind

Design with the Future in Mind is a unique and interesting blog run by Alesha E. Churba. Most of her posts deal with interior design ideas and suggestions for seniors who are housebound. They review the ways that both seniors and their caregivers can make a small living space feel more spacious and comfortable. Churba, who is a Certified Aging in Place Specialist, has a passion for her subject makes this blog an especially enjoyable as well as enlightening read.

Bottom Line

The demand for Oklahoma home healthcare workers is growing at a healthy pace, especially because the Baby Boomer generation is approaching retirement age.

This leads to a need for well-written and informative blogs that educate and enlighten those who are currently working in home healthcare or are interested in entering the field.

The blogs featured in this article have something to teach everyone, which is what makes them excellent resources.

 

What home healthcare blogs do you recommend? What makes them relevant, in your opinion?  Let us know your thoughts in the Comments box below.

 

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