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Coming
Home Connection’s mission is to
serve the local community by providing free access
to trained volunteers to assist as supportive
medical care assistants for in-home hospice, long
term care and as needed to fill in the gaps for
both children and the aging of our community.
Coming Home Connection also acts
as a community network for professional home health
care givers and community services.
The
volunteer caregivers are trained in patient bed
care from changing beds, bedpans and bathing as
well as to encourage the patient and family to
follow doctor’s orders for such things as
their medication. They are trained to be sensitive
to patient and family spiritual and emotional
issues.
Coming
Home Connection was founded by Glenys
Carl who has been involved in end of
life and long-term care for adults and children
for the past fifteen years. She cared for many
of the AIDS patients in Santa Fe, New
Mexico in the early and mid 1990’s
as well as patients with Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s
and head injuries. She is a published author of
Hold My Hand, an autobiography of caring for her
son Scott and organizing and training over 400
volunteers in two countries for his care during
a four year period.
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