Utopia Home Care Offers Free Caregiver Training at Riverhead Office on February 3

A Community Service to Help you Care for your Aging, Ailing or Disabled Loved Ones
By: The Public Relations and Marketing Group
 
Jan. 6, 2010 - PRLog -- Riverhead, NY – Utopia Home Care, Inc. announced today that it will hold its free caregiver training classes at its Kings Park office as a community service, on Wednesday, February 3, 2010.  The classes will be held at 180 Old Country Road (Rte. 58), Riverhead, NY.  Utopia offers its classes free to help the public meet the needs of the area’s growing aging and disabled populations.  Increasingly, the public is turning to home health care agencies, or sometimes choosing to take on caretaking responsibilities themselves, or a combination of both, rather than have their family member be cared for in nursing homes or other facility.            

“There is a steadily growing need to teach people the skills required to take on the responsibilities of being a caregiver for members of their own family,” said Diane Martinez, Executive Vice President, Utopia Home Care.  “Our goal as a company is to allow patients to be cared for at home, rather than at a nursing home or other facility.  Most people prefer the comforts and familiar surroundings of their own home.  Providing free caregiver training is an extension of that mission and will help to ensure that caregivers have the necessary training to properly address the home health care needs of their loved ones.”  

Four topics will be covered:

Session 1          9:30     -   11:00am         Ambulating with a person, cane, or walker

Session 2          11:00   -   12:30pm         Transfers: bed to wheelchair and back, wheelchair to toilet and back

Session 3          1:30     -   3:00pm           Turning and Positioning, skin & incontinent care, and use of bedpan & urinal      

Session 4          3:00     -   4:30pm           Use of a Hoyer Lift                    

* Please note that the purpose of the training is to gain personal skills. No certificates will be given.

Scheduled dates are subject to change.  Classes are monthly and are rotated among five of Utopia’s six Long Island locations.  Please call to register for a training class and directions.  Caregivers can attend one, or more, or all the sessions.  For Utopia’s other five office locations on Long Island and information about the free caregiver training program, as well as job opportunities at Utopia Home Care, contact (631) 369-5500, or visit http://www.utopiahomecare.com.

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About Utopia Home Care
Founded in 1983 by Manuel and Angelina Martinez, Utopia Home Care, Inc. is a family-owned home health care agency. It is experienced in every level of home health care, including accident rehabilitation, pediatric care, elder care, treatment for those patients with disabilities, and those with long term and short term illness. The company’s services meet the full range of the patient’s needs from Home Health and Live-in Aides to Registered Nurses. Utopia is a nationally accredited agency by CHAP. Headquartered in Kings Park, New York, Utopia has 23 branch offices located in New York, Connecticut, Florida, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. It now has over 2,500 dedicated employees servicing thousands of patients each year. With home health care seen as one of the fastest growing industries in the nation, Utopia has been recognized as one of New York Metro region’s fastest growing privately-owned companies and Long Island’s largest minority-owned business.
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