Carer supervision is an essential feature in homecare services because it supports carers, reassures clients and improves the overall quality of in-home care services. Good quality home care depends on motivated, well-trained carers who are supervised and undergo regular performance appraisals. Regular supervision visits reassures clients that...
Every year in Ireland, 10,000 people suffer from a stroke. About 25% of these result in death. Figures have been improving, but lifestyle factors are feared to be reversing gains made in recent years. Would you be able to recognise the signs of a stroke? ...
By keeping our care staff work skills updated with training and information, we are succeeding to deliver the best quality home care services to our clients. Carers work in an ever-changing, challenging and sometimes complicated environment. Their work is not easy, and they are usually under...
This month Applewood Homecare are promoting Palliative Care Week 9 to 15 September 2018 : Palliative Care, Because Every Moment Matters which is to raise awareness & understanding of palliative care with the public. 2018 is the centenary of the birth of Dame Cicely Saunders...
Initiating Care At home - Insights from a Recent Client Survey Applewood Homecare’s recent client survey provides great insights into the lived experience of initiating care at home. As their health declines, clients and their loved ones find it difficult to know how best to proceed in...
We Have Moved to a New Office It’s been a very busy few months in Applewood Homecare, and we are delighted to be finally fully moved into our new office in the heart of Terenure at 140 Terenure Road North. This exciting new development means we...
June 2016 Applewood Homecare read with interest the recent reports from the Alzheimer’s Prevention Programme in the Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles that uses lifestyle planning and innovative neurological interventions to detect and treat Alzheimer’s earlier. They are currently conducting an 18-month clinical lifestyle intervention study, examining...
May 2016 Applewood Homecare staff are promoting community activities forming part of the Bealtaine 2016 festival this month – the theme this year Iconic Citizens - celebrating citizens of the Irish State. There are so many events on from Arts & Crafts, Theatre, Writing, Music, Cinema...
April 2016 Applewood Homecare Staff suggested the topic this month: Embrace the fact that Spring has finally Sprung! Bring some colour into your lives and those of your loved ones with a spruce up of the garden. For the indoor environment it is amazing the transformation...
March 2016 ‘Elder Awareness’ has taken a decidedly strange turn this month with the ESRI report investigating the housing shortage in Ireland. The media has picked up on an element in the report where a possible solution to improve the situation would be if older people...