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Looking Back... and Ahead
From our House to yours, we hope you have enjoyed a restful, happy and healthy holiday season. Before we bid farewell to the year, we want to share with you some of our proudest accomplishments of 2018 and give you a preview of what’s in the works for 2019. If you are not familiar with HouseWorks, we are the leading in-home care company in...
December 31, 2018 - 12:12pm
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Our Recipe for Transformation
1 dash of vison 2 drops of strong sense of mission 3 ounces of empowerment 4 cups of connection  
March 12, 2018 - 3:01pm
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HCA's Talking Care: Andrea Cohen on Challenges and Successes for Private Home Care
Our CEO, Andrea Cohen, did a podcast last week with Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts about the challenges and successes of private home care. In this episode, Pat Kelleher, Executive Director of the Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts talks with Andrea on topics including: ·    A primer on private...
August 15, 2017 - 10:19am
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National Healthcare Decisions Week
This week marks ‘National Healthcare Decisions Day (NHDD)’ which inspires, educates and empowers families and health care providers about the importance of advance care planning. NHDD encourages patients to express their health care wishes and helps providers to listen for, understand and execute on those wishes. The theme for 2017...
April 19, 2017 - 3:00pm
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Boston Business Journal: "The Business of Health Care and Senior Living"
According to the Boston Business Journal, seniors make up nearly 13 percent of the population and are projected to account for about 20 percent of the population by 2060.  Given the high demand, increased expense and the emphasis on patient-centered care, health care providers are being challenged to create new options for families who want...
March 28, 2017 - 11:49am
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Shifting the Paradigm: Tech-Enabled Home Care
The integration of in-home service and technology is necessary to create cohesive and comprehensive aging-in-place solutions. Recent investor interest in the private in-home care (nearing $300M in 2016) produced new integrated models and innovative strategic partnerships. Although the ‘end game’ is not clear, the...
January 30, 2017 - 4:04pm
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Support for Hurricane Matthew

The Huffington Post calls Hurricane Matthew “the fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade.” Matthew wrought widespread destruction and catastrophic loss of life during its journey across the Western Atlantic. With an estimated 2 million people affected in the Caribbean, CNN calls it the “Three Days of Terror.”  ...
October 28, 2016 - 2:36pm
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A Story by the NY Times: "Love and Burnout: Caregivers, Too, Need Care"
On September 2nd, the New York Times featured a story, written by Constance Gustke, about a couple struggling after the wife fell under the spell of early-onset Alzheimer's. The Times wrote, "He quit his job as a well-paid sales represenative in the printing industry and becamse his wife's 24-hour caregiver: dressing her, doing...
September 8, 2016 - 8:57am
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Age is Nothing but a Number...

At HouseWorks we thrive on inspiration. Check out this article featured in Yahoo!Beauty about 80 year old body builder, Ernestine Shepherd. Below, we’ve listed a few of Ernestine’s keys to motivation: “Age is nothing but a number.” In addition to her mantra, “Determined, dedicated, disciplined to be fit,”...
July 8, 2016 - 4:22pm
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Avoiding Readmission…
The title of Dr. Dhruv Khullar’s March New York Times Well Blog post sums things up.  Most Dangerous Time at the Hospital? It May Be When You Leave. We know the statistics—according to Dr. Khullar’s blog post, 20 percent of patients have a complication within three weeks of leaving the hospital and more than half of those...
June 22, 2016 - 3:12pm
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