How can we get a c o p y of your newsletter.
Dana
In a message dated 6/9/2011 11:40:25 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
Hi Sue,
I hope you read the news out of Milwaukee this morning regarding a
caregiver who's was paid to keep an eye on their patient confined to a
wheelchair.
The patient was left outdoors for more then 3 hours in the extreme heat.
Temperatures that day exceeded 95 degrees and the patient diabetic. This
should have not been allowed to happen. This patient was in a nursing
home/center and the caregivers all paid. The patient died.
Best Wishes
In a message dated 6/9/2011 10:27:26 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
Hello,
I'm an occupational therapist at a pediatric rehab facility. I've been
mostly lurking on this list for years, picking up great tips and ideas for
many of the SCI patients I treat - many thanks for all the wealth of
knowledge you all share so freely.
I write/edit a newsletter that is sent out to all of our former SCI
patients. We're a children's hospital, but after all these years most of our
former patients have become adults, so we gear the newsletter to that
demographic. We had a request to do a newsletter on the topic of caregivers -
how
to get them, how to keep them, how to treat them, etc.
We have articles from places like Paralyzed Veterans of America about the
basics of hiring aides, etc, but we like to go a little deeper in our
newsletters. I figure that our readership has been dealing with this stuff
for
years and probably knows more about it than we do in many respects. I am
wondering if anyone in this group would be willing to share
thoughts/resources/tips, etc that go beyond the basics.
Many thanks for any help you can offer!
Sue Berres, OTR/L
