Welcome to the Communities of Care blog. Since 1999, we have been providing home care nurses for medically complex children and adults who live in the Minneapolis/St Paul metro area. Many of our clients need home care nursing for conditions like ventilator dependence, tracheotomies, seizure disorders, respiratory disorders, genetic syndromes, heart conditions, neurological conditions, and...
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Night Shift Nurses – How to Adjust to Working the Night Shift
In home care nursing, nurses often work 12-hour shifts, and their schedules sometimes require rotating between shifts (from days to nights or vice versa). Adjusting to the night shift means changing most aspects of one’s life and can be stressful. For example, it can be difficult for people who work “regular” hours to get enough...
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Specially-Designed Silverware for People with Disabilities or Tremors
Eat with confidence. Liftware's selection of stabilizing and leveling handles and attachments are designed to help people with hand tremor or limited hand and arm mobility retain dignity, confidence, and independence.
These exciting adaptive designs can help people with limited hand or arm mobility, which may be associated with cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury, Huntington's disease,...
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A tribute to the parents of kids with special needs
The emotional video of 50 mothers singing with their children with Down syndrome against prejudice.
https://telefenoticias.com.ar/internacionales/video-50-madres-y-sus-50-hijos-con-sindrome-de-down-cantan-para-derribar-prejuicios/...
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Protect Your Family: 5 easily-spread illnesses that peak in fall, winter
As the leaves change and chillier weather sets in across the country, certain illnesses rise to their peak and spread throughout schools and workplaces.
Due to the evolution from hot to milder air and the piling of children back into schools, a mess of germs sparks the start of a new season of illnesses that sweep...
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