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Cincinnati, OH (PRWEB) October 08, 2014
A new study from the Joint Center for Housing Studies shows that the number of people over the age of 75 will double from 6.9 million to 13.4 million in the next 20 years and that substantial business opportunities exist in helping older adults modify their home to suit evolving needs.
TruBlue Total House Care, a Cincinnati-based franchise specializing in providing complete house care, home improvements, maid services and more, is actively recruiting new franchise owners across the country who can help these seniors live safely and comfortably in their homes.
TruBlue is on the cusp of explosive growth and were looking for innovative and passionate franchise owners who can expand the reach of our services nationwide. This new report from the JCHS validates what weve already learned from our work in the field seniors have a need for trustworthy business owners who can help them live comfortably in their homes. Thats a service we provide every day and thats part of what makes TruBlue a great business opportunity, said Mark Cottle, COO of TruBlue.
The JCHS report also highlighted that millions of older adults who develop disabilities live in homes that lack accessibility features such as a no-step entry, single-floor living, extra-wide doorways and halls, accessible electrical controls and switches, and lever-style door and faucet handles. In fact, a 2011 American Housing Survey report reports that just 1 percent of US housing units have all five of these universal design features. Roughly two in five housing units in the United States have either none or only one of these features.
Our TruBlue franchise owners and their teams are available to help with these home renovations and also provide the day-to-day maintenance and care every home needs. We all want our communities seniors to be able to age comfortably in place and TruBlue can make that possible, Cottle said.
TruBlue provides complete and affordable solutions for all house care needs including home improvements, maid services, lawn care, emergency repair services and more. In addition to seniors and busy homeowners, franchise owners work with real estate professionals, general contractors and property managers to maintain homes and rental properties, improve curb appeal, make final preparations to sell homes and more. TruBlue was founded in 2011 as part of the Strategic Franchising Systems family, which also includes Home Helpers, Direct Link, Fresh Coat Painters, Caring Transitions and The Growth Coach.
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When a patient with flu-like symptoms said he had recently traveled to Africa, health care workers at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn were given their first opportunity to implement protocols for something they were prepared for but had never dealt with: a patient potentially infected with the Ebola virus.
The patient, in fact, hadn't been to Africa and didn't have Ebola. But the way the incident was handled mirrors concerns around the country since the first travel-related case of Ebola was reported in the United States.
"When you have world travel, there's always potential for disease," said Dr. James Malow, co-chair of the infection prevention team at Advocate Health Care. "The thing with Ebola is, there's a 50 percent mortality rate and no treatment."
Malow said the likelihood of an outbreak in the U.S. "is almost zero." But Advocate and other local health care systems are prepared to partner with federal, state and local officials "so in the unlikely event that a patient with Ebola shows up in Chicago, we can contain it (as) quickly as possible," Malow said.
Medical personnel are instructed to ask about a patient's travel as part of routine questioning, given the number of communicable diseases overseas, Malow said. Because of the current Ebola epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends against nonessential travel to three West African countries: Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
As a part of a CDC checklist and risk assessment, medical staff will check if symptoms, including fever, severe headache and vomiting, fall within the 21-day incubation period for Ebola.
"If you walk in and say, 'I just flew back from Sierra Leone two days ago, now I'm running a fever,' you would be admitted immediately," Malow said. "The patient would be put in a private room in isolation and we would follow CDC protocols, which have been the bible on how to handle these patients."
Hospital workers must wear gowns, gloves, masks and a face shield or goggles to avoid secretions, since Ebola is spread through blood or bodily fluids.
Malow said in the case this week at Advocate Christ Medical Center, the patient was isolated. Employees contacted the CDC and the Cook County and Illinois public health departments "out of an abundance of caution," according to a statement from the hospital.
Agencies confirmed that the patient had not traveled to Africa and there were no indications of an Ebola infection.
SOUTH BEND Mental illness affects 60 million Americans, or one in four, every year, and 13 million people live with a serious mental illness. To help people better understand the issue, Congress established Mental Illness Awareness Week in 1990. Since then, organizations across the country, including locally, have recognized the campaign.
Oak Lawn serves 16,000 clients in St. Joseph and Elkhart Counties combined. The facility provides both inpatient and outpatient treatment options, including help from hundreds of case managers and therapists in the community. This week, the foundation partnered with area organizations to bring awareness to mental illness.
"It's important that we face it. That we make sure that we give people the opportunity to talk about it, that we provide them with the appropriate support, that if they need help we get them the help they need", said Matthew Lentsch, the Executive Director at Oak Lawn.
Lentsch and his colleagues want October 5-11 to be about talking. Their hope is to break the stigma and encourage more people who need it to seek treatment.
"We're very prone if we have heart surgery to show our scars. If we have a broken leg to go to the hospital, but not so much when we're not feeling well," said Lentsch. "Stigma is a major barrier for people getting help and wanting to talk about it."
Some have found the arts to be therapeutic to those suffering from mental illness, and a local man has made it his mission to cater to vulnerable populations. Matthew Stackowicz started The Darkroom Project in 2010, while he was living in Yemen. He used photography to help Somali refugees find their voice. He continued the project in South Bend in 2012 and has worked with ex-felons and the homeless. Now, he's helping those coping with various diseases to use photography to express themselves.
"It helps them explore different aspects of their life and what they struggle with and what they find joy in," said Stackowicz. "We help people tell their story."
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Anderson is also working with several others to re-establish the Club House, formerly affiliated with the Madison Center, as an independent center. Club House is expected to open in the fall of 2017 and will provide outpatient services.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. died Wednesday despite intense but delayed treatment, and the government announced it was expanding airport examinations to guard against the spread of the deadly disease.
The checks will include taking the temperatures of hundreds of travelers arriving from West Africa at five major American airports.
The new screenings will begin Saturday at New York's JFK International Airport and then expand to Washington Dulles and the international airports in Atlanta, Chicago and Newark. An estimated 150 people per day will be checked, using high-tech thermometers that don't touch the skin.
The White House said the fever checks would reach more than 9 of 10 travelers to the U.S. from the three heaviest-hit countries - Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
President Barack Obama called the measures "really just belt and suspenders" to support protections already in place. Border Patrol agents now look for people who are obviously ill, as do flight crews, and in those cases the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is notified.
It's unlikely a fever check would have spotted Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who died of Ebola in a Dallas hospital Wednesday morning. Duncan wasn't yet showing symptoms when he arrived in the U.S.
A delay in diagnosing and treating Duncan, and the infection of a nurse who treated an Ebola patient in Spain, have raised worries about Western nations' ability to stop the disease that has killed at least 3,800 people in West Africa.
Speaking by teleconference with mayors and local officials, Obama said he was confident the U.S. could prevent an outbreak. But he warned them to be vigilant.
"As we saw in Dallas, we don't have a lot of margin for error," Obama said. "If we don't follow protocols and procedures that are put in place, then we're putting folks in our communities at risk."
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A man hospitalized after being attacked by bees in Hearne on Tuesday morning has been upgraded to fair condition.
Clark Rudy, 56, had been mowing the lawn near the C&C Secure Self Storage facility in the 800 block of West Brown Street at about 11 a.m. when the bees attacked, Hearne police said.
He was airlifted to St. Joseph hospital in critical condition, but a Hearne police dispatcher said Rudy was awake and communicating through written notes on Wednesday.
A paramedic who responded to the call on Tuesday morning was also treated, but a shift captain with Robertson County EMS said that person was doing well.
The area around the storage facility and an abandoned hotel were roped off Tuesday, and beekeepers from Moody Ranch Outfitters in Anderson vacuumed up the bees Wednesday morning.
Representatives at Moody Ranch Outfitters did not respond to requests for comment, but the website said the company relocates bees to its ranch in Grimes County instead of killing them.
Bill Baxter, the state's assistant chief apiary inspector, said beekeepers typically vacuum the bees and use smoke to pacify them.
While police have not revealed what kinds of bees were involved or where their colony was located, Baxter said bees can be found inside walls and even in a hole in the ground.
"The public needs to realize that this was an isolated incident, and the one thing I always tell people is before you crank up the lawn mower, walk around the yard and be aware of what's there," he said.
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Amendments to two city ordinances regarding mowing lawns and snow and ice removal in Boone passed first readings at the city council meeting Monday night.
We are looking to change the ordinances for snow and ice accumulation and mowing, said Director of Public Safety and Boone Police Chief Bill Skare. He requested the change so the ordinances would mirror each other. Right now theyre different.
The snow and ice removal ordinance requires owners of commercial property to remove snow and ice within 24 hours and residents within 48 hours after a snowstorm. If removal is not done, the city can hire a contractor to do it and fees are assessed to property owners.
All lawns, which, according to city code, must be kept below 12 inches in height, weeds included. If a yard is found in violation, the city can hire a contractor to mow it and assess the contractors fee to the property owner.
If council approves the amendments, notices of fees will no longer be sent through the mail, but assessed on property owners taxes. Penalties for violations of either city code will be a $50 civil fee and $5 administration fee, plus the contractors fee, which is different for each property.
Were trying to cut out some of the paperwork and streamline it so Mike (Salati, community service officer) doesnt spend so much time on the (administration) stuff so that he can do other things, Skare said.
Currently, if Salati answers a complaint or finds a yard in violation, he will send the property owner a letter informing them they need to mow the lawn. The property owner has 10 days to comply. After the 10-day period has expired, Salati has to go out and confirm that the lawn has been mowed. If not, he hires a contractor to do it. By then, Skare said, the grass may be two feet tall.
What this does is once Mike finds it at 12 inches, instead of going back and sending a letter, hes getting a contractor right away, Skare said. It gets us away from that two feet of grass.
If council approves the amended ordinances, public notices would be published in the spring and fall, respectively, in the Boone News-Republican, reminding citizens of the requirements, Skare said.
He is also planning on sending out information about the amended ordinances with the city water bills, if the ordinances are approved.
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A "lonely" man has been charged with masturbating in women's public toilets and pestering women for sexual services or their underwear.
Yook Suk Choi, 36, appeared at Christchurch District Court today to admit one charge of obscene exposure in a public place and three charges of offensive language and behaviour.
The court heard the police summary of facts that outlined Choi's bizarre attempts at attracting the opposite sex.
At 11am on September 1 this year, Choi was found inside the women's public toilets near New Brighton pier.
A woman left her toilet stall and saw unemployed Choi "standing there masturbating".
The "shocked" woman asked Choi if he was aware that he was in the women's toilets.
"[Choi] replied that hew knew that and the complainant ran out of the toilets," police said.
Just one hour later, a woman came out of the nearby Waimairi Surf Club public toilets when she was approached by Choi.
He asked her if she could take him into the women's toilet and perform a sex act on him.
"The woman was so concerned for her safety that she ran to her car and pretended to use her cellphone, which is when the defendant drove away in his car," the police version of events said.
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One man died and another was injured during a bee attack Wednesday in Douglas while the men were cleaning a yard.
A crew of four men who do landscape work through Douglas ARC, an organization that serves people with developmental disabilities, were working at a house in the 1700 block of 21st Street, said Capt. Ray Luzania of the Douglas Fire Department.
While the workers turned on lawn mowers, the crew was "attacked by a swarm of bees," said Luzania. The men ran to a house in the 1800 block of 21st Street for help, and the homeowner called 911.
Firefighters were dispatched shortly before 10:30 a.m. to the house where the men sought refuge, and worked on one man who had collapsed, Luzania said.
The 32-year-old man went into cardiac arrest, and paramedics treated him and took him to Cochise Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead, said Luzania.
"A witness said his face and neck were covered with bees," Luzania said.
The other man, who was stung more than 100 times, was treated at the hospital and released. The other two workers did not require treatment, said Luzania. He said the homeowner who helped the men drove herself to a hospital in Bisbee and was treated and released.
Firefighters went to the house where the landscaping crew was working and assisted an exterminator while he destroyed the hive. It was estimated that the hive had between 300,000 to 800,000 bees, said Luzania.
"The hive was in the eaves of the house and spread into the attic. The hive was 4 feet wide and 6 feet long," Luzania said.
The homeowner, a 90-year-old man who lived alone, was evacuated from the home while the hive was destroyed, Luzania said.
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