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How Will The Nursing Shortage Affect At-Home Healthcare?

You’ve most likely heard that there’s a looming nursing shortage about to hit the United States. It’s certainly true that the US will need another 600,000 nurses in the next five years, and while many prospective nurses have heard the call and enlisted in nursing schools, most schools are completely full. This isn’t just a…

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When At-Home Care Is A Necessity and Not A Convenience

Some of the patients we see every day are living on their own. Perhaps they’re seniors who are enjoying living at home while still taking advantage of home healthcare. Other times it’s an adult who has a disability but still has the ability to take care of themselves throughout most of the day. But many…

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Who Pays For Home Healthcare Services?

You won’t be surprised to know that home healthcare services is a need in some people’s lives. In most cases, it’s a requirement, not simply a want. Many times the care administered during home health services is life-saving care, giving not only the patient what they need but also allowing family members to live a…

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Looking For A Career In Home Healthcare? We’re Looking For The Best At Tendercare

If you’re in the healthcare industry and are thinking about changing your current place of work, then maybe you should check out what kind of jobs Tendercare Home Health Service currently has available. We have to warn you though, we’re pretty selective about who we hire, because we’re looking for the right people with the…

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What’s The Difference Between Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy?

Most people think they have a pretty good idea of what physical therapy is. Perhaps they’ve been injured in an accident, whether they slipped and broke their wrist or hurt their leg in a car wreck. And if they haven’t been injured themselves, it’s likely they know someone who has. But knowing just a little…

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When Is Long-Term Home Healthcare Appropriate?

Every time we work with a patient, there’s a process we go through in order to make sure that they’re getting the best care available from our home healthcare agency. (In fact, we even wrote a blog about the process called “The Extensive Care We Take Before In-Home Care Begins.”) But that’s what happens when…

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Helping Those Needing Short Term At-Home Care

  Here at Tendercare, we take care of hundreds of people with dozens of different needs. Sometimes it’s pediatric home healthcare that goes on during the workday, while in other instances it’s 24-hour care for someone needing senior home care. While those sorts of long-term needs might be the most obvious, there are less obvious…

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Why Choose Tendercare For At-Home Care?

  In our previous blogs we have been discussing the advantages of at-home care and why it makes sense to have nurses take care of you (or your loved one) in the comfort of your own home as much as possible. But we haven’t discussed why you might choose Tendercare, specifically, to perform these home…

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Why Is a Code of Ethics So Important With A Home Healthcare Agency?

No matter what business you’re in, there is a code of conduct that needs to be followed. Some are more strict than others, such as the legal profession where a single transgression can get you disbarred. Others industries have codes of conduct that are posted on the wall of the break for employees to see on…

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4 Reasons Why Home Health Care Is Growing So Quickly

  For nearly 25 years Tendercare Home Health has been providing the best in-home healthcare to the people of the Indianapolis area. And in those two-plus decades, we’ve certainly seen a lot of growth, both in our own business and in the entire industry. We started as a registered nurse and her spouse, and today…

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