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Our guides provide you with the skills, checklists and tips for caring for your loved one. Our content is authored by highly qualified registered nurses with a combined total of 60 years of expertise in various healthcare settings such as acute, community and home care.

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  • VNS Health Total: Home Health Agency Care

    Intermittent skilled nursing, therapy, social work, and home health aide services provided in the home to support recovery or address functional decline.

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  • VNS Health Total: HIV Screening

    For those at increased risk, including older adults. With proper care, people with HIV are living full lives with normal life expectancy.

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  • VNS Health Total: Help with Certain Chronic Conditions (Palliative Care)

    Supportive care layered on to existing medical treatment for those with serious illness. Also known as palliative care. This program differs from hospice.

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  • VNS Health Total: Hearing Services

    Routine hearing exams and associated hearing aid services and supplies. Hearing - or lack of - impacts balance, walking, perception, and thinking.

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  • VNS Health Total: Health and Wellness Education Programs

    Qualified experts support smoking less or stopping, eating healthier, exercising more, sleeping better, managing stress, and connecting socially.

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  • VNS Health Total: Fitness

    Health club membership at participating facilities through SilverSneakers®. The only bad workout is the one that wasn't done!

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  • VNS Health Total: Enhanced Disease Management

    A means of better health self-management in the presence of multiple morbidities (more than one chronic disease or condition).

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  • VNS Health Total: Emergency Care

    Emergencies are occurrences that require immediate and complex medical attention (this benefit does not include ambulance services).

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  • VNS Health Total: Durable Medical Equipment (DME) and Related Supplies

    DME in the home for safety and support can increase independence, reduce anxiety, and enhance quality of life.

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  • VNS Health Total: Diabetes Self-Management Training, Diabetic Services and Supplies

    Almost 42% of those with diabetes don't properly use medication, and twice that don't eat right, exercise enough, or take care of their feet.

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  • VNS Health Total: Diabetes Screening

    1 in 10 people have diabetes. 1 in 5 people don't know they have it. Most don't even know they're at risk of developing it.

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  • VNS Health Total: Depression Screening

    The good news is that the majority of older adults are not depressed, however, millions of adults 65 and older do have some form of depression.

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About us

Helpful is an app to make caregiving easier. We integrate your loved one’s insurance benefits, medical records and caregiving guides into an immediate, accessible and user-friendly experience. Helpful supports your care needs by eliminating administrative tasks and providing technology to support your caregiving experience.

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