Posts Tagged ‘Home Care’
StaffLink Awarded Multi-State Nursing Staffing Contracts
Medical staffing has been a significant portion of StaffLink’s service portfolio since the business began in 1987. Some may not know that for nearly 30 years StaffLink has serviced medical staffing contracts outside of Missouri. StaffLink has provided health care personnel from Alaska to Florida, from Washington state to the Carolinas and from Michigan to…
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 MoreCaregiving Is a Labor of Love
Labor Day is celebrated this upcoming Monday. Labor Day is the federal holiday that honors workers across America. I have been a family caregiver. I own an agency that provides assistance to family caregivers. I want to honor family and professional caregivers across America on this Labor Day. I know that caregiving is a labor of love. The…
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 MoreSeventeen (17) Fun Summer Outdoor Activities for Seniors
Summer 2021 is here. More persons are vaccinated against COVID-19. More communities are opening back up to pre-COVID 19 levels and outdoor activities are abundant and easily accessible. Most outdoor activities are safe, especially for vaccinated individuals. Seventeen (17) Fun Summer Activities for Seniors Here are 17 fun, accessible and safe activities that can be…
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…
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