Opportunities

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Would you like to expand your nursing home volunteer responsibilities? Today let’s explore how you can serve in the Volunteer Ombudsman program.

Federal law requires each of the 50 states to provide an ombudsman office to advocate for long-term care residents. They provide specially trained staff to address complaints and help resolve problems. Services are provided free of charge. While the staff includes paid employees, the office also recruits volunteers to serve long-term care residents.

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*Important Update 8/2018

Pantene’s hair donation program will end on December 31, 2018. However, other programs will continue to accept hair donations to create wigs for children. Each has its own protocols, so I encourage you to check out these sites:

Wigs For Kids

Children With Hair Loss

 

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We’ve all been invited to product parties. There’s Pampered Chef, Tupperware, Thirty-One, and Tastefully Simple—just to name a few. But has someone ever invited you to a CPR party? A mom in Maryland created the concept of these parties. CPR saved her 3-year-old son’s life after he nearly drowned.

If you come upon someone who is in cardiac arrest, will you know what to do? Any of us can suddenly find ourselves in this situation and help save a life. Check out these sobering statistics from the American Heart Association:

• 70% of Americans either never learned CPR or have forgotten how to do it.
• Only 32% of cardiac arrest victims receive bystander CPR.
• Immediate bystander CPR can double or triple a person’s chance of survival.

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Check out these surprising facts from the American Red Cross:

• Less than 10% of the population eligible to donate blood does so annually.
• Every 2 seconds, someone in the U.S. needs blood.
• Each pint of blood donated can save more than one life.
• Approximately 36,000 units of red blood cells are needed every day in the U.S.
• We cannot manufacture blood. It only comes from generous donors.

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Back when I worked as a nurse in a memory care unit, I remember attending a fascinating workshop about Alzheimer’s disease. The speaker updated us on groundbreaking research being done in the field. He said he was confident that scientists would discover a cure for Alzheimer’s disease within the next ten years.

That was over 20 years ago, and there’s still no cure. Kind of discouraging, isn’t it? But we can’t give up hope!

I’m sure you know people who are living with Alzheimer’s disease. Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could play a significant role in ending this terrible disease?

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