Commitment to Dignity
prioritize dignity by offering respectful assistance with personal hygiene. Trained Home Health Aides provide help with bathing, dressing, and grooming, fostering comfort and emotional well-being. This focus on dignity helps clients maintain a sense of self, which is crucial for mental and emotional health, especially during challenging times of illness or disability.
Health Monitoring and Dietary Management
Beyond basic care, Harbor Care emphasizes comprehensive health monitoring and dietary management. Aides are responsible for preparing nutritious meals tailored to each client’s specific dietary needs. They also monitor vital signs such as pulse and blood pressure, ensuring that any health concerns are promptly addre…
Stephen Leahy
BROOKLIN, Canada, Feb 20 2007 (IPS) – Factory farms are responsible for both the bird flu and emissions of greenhouse gases that now top those of cars and sport utility vehicles (SUVs), according to a report released Monday.
Sixty percent of global livestock production, including chicken and pig confined animal feedlot operations (CAFOs), now occur in the developing world. Unregulated zoning and subsidies that encourage these CAFOs or factory farms are moving closer to major urban areas in China, Bangladesh, India, and many countries in Africa, said the report, Vital Signs 2007-2008 by the Worldwatch Institute.
Although there is no definitive scientific proof, those farms are very likely where avian or bird flu started and will continue to be responsible…
Antoaneta Becker
LONDON, Oct 19 2010 (IPS) – China s rebel artist Ai Weiwei had intended a political message. And may be a truly memorable metaphor for the state of modern China and humanity as a whole. But the final outcome of his multimedia installation at the London s Tate Modern may have been rather unexpected, for what he got was a striking symbol of the Made in China effect on the world.
Ai Weiwei at the London gallery. Credit: Antoaneta Becker
Ai s mega-offering of 100 million handcrafted sunflower seeds covering the Tate Modern s vast lower floor…
The writer is Chief Executive Officer, Sanitation and Water for All partnership
The UN will be commemorating World Water Day on Monday March 22.
Credit: UN Water
LISBON, Mar 21 2021 (IPS) – This , we celebrate the value of water, which at first might be a given: after all, water is the basis of all life. Without water we have no health, wealth, equality, or education.
But, do governments adequately prioritize and invest in clean water? The answer, in far too many parts of the world, is a resounding no. As an international community, we are too often blind to the huge cost of failing to serve so many people with the most basic but crucial of services.<…
SINGAPORE, Dec 20 2021 (IPS) – While the COVID-19 impact has been predominantly negative, the pandemic appears to have sparked increased interest in developing agricultural technology (agtech) to improve the efficiency of food systems, from input supplies through farming and processing to delivery and retail.
Paul S. Teng
The COVID-19 pandemic has admittedly upended economic activity in the Asia-Pacific region, but a recent event in Singapore (Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit, 16-18 November 2021 ) showed that, in the case of agriculture and food, it has greatly spurred investments in technology to scale up food production sustainably. During 2020-21, momentum has…