Posts Tagged ‘home care in St. Louis County’
StaffLink Provides Supplemental Nursing Staffing to St. Louis Area Senior Facilities & Communities
In recent months, during the extended COVID pandemic, StaffLink has received increasing requests to provide supplemental nursing staffing to St. Louis long-term care (senior) facilities and communities. During the pandemic senior facilities and communities have experienced challenges in recruiting, hiring, and retaining enough staff to meet the needs of their current residents. Staffing augmentation is…
Read MoreFifteen (15) Safe Autumn Activities for Family Caregivers in the Delta Driven Pandemic
There are nearly 70 million family caregivers in America. Family caregiving is an essential part of the fabric of care in America. Caregiving is stressful. Caregiver burnout is very common. As the pandemic extends into our second autumn and with the explosion of the Delta variant, caregiver self-care is more important than ever. Hospitals are…
Read MoreMaking the Shift from Surviving to Living: Meeting More Than Just the Physical Needs of Our Elders
Written By: Amy Neu, MSW, LCSW “I don’t know why my body keeps going. I was ready to die a long time ago.” “It feels like my days are full of nothing more than finding things to do to pass the time.” “This place is pretty, and I have what I need to survive, but…
Read MoreThirty (30) Olympic-Size Feats that Caregivers Perform Daily
Most seniors or persons with disability want to stay in their homes as long as possible. Ninety percent (90%) of seniors and disabled want to “age in place” as they grow older. Eighty percent of seniors believe they will stay in their home for as long as they live. Many will not be able to…
Read MoreStaffLink Serves the Bosnian Community
StaffLink has served the St. Louis Bosnian community for nearly thirty (30) years. Since the early 1990’s, StaffLink has hired Bosnian immigrants as caregivers to provide home care to elderly immigrants who have moved to St. Louis from Bosnia. The St. Louis Bosnian community is made up of approximately 70,000 persons. St. Louis has the…
Read MoreMeet Donna Neuman, RN, BSN-Client Service Liaison
Donna joined StaffLink in March 2019 as our Client Service Liaison and came to StaffLink with over 30 years of clinical, staff education, and sales/marketing experience in the industry. Within the industry she has been employed with home health, hospice, and infusion companies. Since arriving, Donna has been excited about the depth of services that…
Read MoreMeet Camelle Gibbs-Prince, Service Coordinator!
Camelle has been a Service Coordinator for StaffLink since July 2021. Prior to joining our administrative team as a Service Coordinator, Camelle was a caregiver for StaffLink for six and half years for one client. As a caregiver she really enjoyed giving one-on-one care to her client. She liked being able to to focus all…
Read MoreTen (10) Ways to Honor the Fallen: Honor an Aging Veteran
Happy Memorial Day and Happy Memorial Day week! StaffLink has been providing home care services to veterans for over 30 years. It is an honor to service these men and women. I remember the name of one of the first veterans StaffLink served. He had seen action in the Vietnam War and had been injured.…
Read MoreTwenty-one (21) Traveling Tips for Family Caregivers
Since the beginning of the pandemic, family travel has decreased. As the COVID-19 infection rates continue to go down family travel is now increasing. Over this Memorial weekend 2021 American Automobile Association (AAA) projects that of the 37 million people that will travel, 2.5 million of those will be traveling by air. AAA says…
Read MoreMothers Rock as Family Caregivers!
Mother’s Day was this past Sunday. I am a mother. I have been a family caregiver. I own an agency that provides assistance to family caregivers. Mothers and Women are Primary Family Caregivers Mothers across America are the primary family caregivers in their homes for their children and partners. They may not be the…
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