Can Technology Save Home Care?

McCortney Family In-Home Care News Can Technology Save Home Care? This article comes from a company that is trying to sell their care management system, but it does discuss an interesting question.  First, I don’t know that I agree that Home Care needs “saving”, but I do think that technology is only going to make […]

Who Cares for the Home Care Aides?

McCortney Family In-Home Care News Who Cares for the Home Care Aides? Olympia Dukakis recently wrote an article, that I found on CNN.com, that tells about her personal experience with in-home care.  She had caregivers that cared for her mother who had Alzheimer’s in the 1980s.She does a good job of explaining the importance of elder […]

Reliable Post-Operative or Senior Home Care Service

McCortney Family In-Home Care News Reliable Post-Operative or Senior Home Care Service There are a couple of things about this blog post that we should spend more time discussing on this blog, but I will have to skip discussing using In-home caregivers for post surgery care and focus on their section about the benefit of […]

6 things not to do as a caregiver

McCortney Family In-Home Care News 6 things not to do as a caregiver Here is a great article from kevinmd.com (one of my favorite blogs) about the hardship of being a family caregiver.  Yes, I know that this doesn’t necessarily fit on the website of a company that provides in-home care for elderly clients, but the […]

Location of Service

McCortney Family In-Home Care News Location of Service I know this is a weird post, (We do have a map of our services on the website), but one of the most frequent questions I get is what our geographic coverage area is.  My standard answer is that we provide family home caregivers to a huge […]

Three Things to Know when Hiring a Home Health Aide

McCortney Family In-Home Care News Three Things to Know when Hiring a Home Health Aide This article from USA Today helps sort out the type of In-home Care service that you or your loved one may need. Depending on their condition, there are many different forms of In-Home Care. Many, including people with early stages […]

No Tax Day Stress for Our In-home Care Clients

McCortney Family In-Home Care News No Tax Day Stress for Our In-home Care Clients It’s everyone’s favorite day of the year.  Tax day 2014 is upon us!  Woohoo, right? Okay, I know, nobody gets excited about tax day, but, if you use a  true In-home Care company for your elder care needs in Oklahoma, your […]

Ten Warning Signs that an Elderly Loved One May Need In-Home Care

McCortney Family In-Home Care News Ten Warning Signs that an Elderly Loved One May Need In-Home Care The holidays are over and it’s back to the grind, but for many of us, especially the children of The Greatest Generation or even Baby Boomers, there is a nagging question in our heads.  Is mom (or dad) […]

Op-Ed: Raising the Bar for Elderly Care at Home

McCortney Family In-Home Care News Op-Ed: Raising the Bar for Elderly Care at Home There was an interesting op-ed column in US News recently by the Director of Product Strategy, Social Program Management, at IBM.  Read the whole thing. It discusses the aging of our population: Consider that the oldest living person today – Misawo Okawa at […]

Seniors Fill Ranks of Caregiving Workforce for Elderly

McCortney Family In-Home Care News Seniors Fill Ranks of Caregiving Workforce for Elderly This article discusses one of the things that seems to surprise many of our in-home care clients. It comes out of another state, but definitely applies to the Elder Care services we provide in Oklahoma.  Many of our clients, especially those with […]