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Home healthcare nurses help families change routines

Many families are making changes to help their elderly relatives in the absence of home healthcare.

STOW, Ohio — Tiffany Adjei, owner of Honesty Healthcare says COVID-19 has caused client concerns.

“Especially with my staff members. There are clients who didn’t want us to enter their home because of the COVID,” says Adjei.

But not all clients felt the same way.

“She cares about my grandmother as much as I care for her so its like talking to a family member honestly,” says Justin Herod.

Herod hired Honesty Healthcare to help his grandmother, and now, he’s learning from their nurses.

“When she’s handling my grandmother, she’s telling us step by step what they are doing and how they’re taking precautions handling them in case we need to do it when they’re not there,” says Herod.

That includes running her errands and to making sure he cleans household surfaces they both touch. Experts say helping a loved one during the pandemic when you’re used to home help simply takes more time.

“So it’s just kinda changed me in a certain way of how I handle certain things in the household,” says Herod.

Adjei says she understands it can feel weird to protect yourself from a loved one, but the following tips are for the best.

“Just making sure that your staying sanitized, keeping on gloves, wiping everything down and just trying to wear your mask,” says Adjei.

Protecting yourself and family during a pandemic can be seen as the ultimate show of love.

“My grandmother is my everything, she is my world. There’s nothing I won’t do for her,” says Herod.

For more information on Honesty Healthcare, visit www.honestyhealthcare.net.

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