Vanessa Lvovsky
Personal info
- Phone: + (123) 1800-567
- Office: + (123) 1800-567
- Email: [email protected]
- Social:
Emergency Cases
“I highly appreciate your help for my family in our most difficult time. We owed everyone at @dr.changes a big thank you and our life.”
More than 15 years ago, a small group of families, community activists, and civil servants in New York came together to form an organization called Dr.Changes. They provide services for those struggling to care for a loved one who did not “fit” into traditional health systems: stroke, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s disease, traumatic brain injury, debilitating disorders, etc. The diagnoses were different, but the families shared common challenges: few community resources, isolation, lack of information, and drastic changes in family roles.
Skills
- Assisting with walking from bed to wheelchair
- Bathing, dressing and grooming assistance
- Medication reminders
- Safety and fall prevention
- Status reporting to family
- Toileting and incontinence care
- Light housekeeping
- Meal preparation and nutrition
- Laundry and change of bed linens
- Grocery shopping and errands
- Transportation to social & recreational activities
- Assistance with light exercise
Care Coverage
The task force’s early efforts had three lasting results: the formation of Dr.Changes caregiver center; the genesis of community social caregiver groups; and the beginnings of an evolutional movement to change the ideology of long-term health care and caregivers intended for the ill and elderly in our country.
Language
English
French
QUALIFICATIONS
Master of Science
University Limerick