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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 EasyCare: Inpatient Services in a Psychiatric Hospital

    Inpatient psychiatric care can be provided in a psychiatric hospital or within a general hospital, under voluntary or involuntary admission.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare: Inpatient Hospital Care

    Inpatient care is defined as admission into the hospital under inpatient status.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare: Immunizations

    When immunizations don't prevent disease entirely, they do lessen the severity of it. What is the best vaccine? The one you can get!

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  • VNS Health EasyCare: Hospice Care Support Allowance

    If receiving hospice under a network provider, a hospice care support allowance is available for items not covered by the health plan benefits.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare: Hospice Care (at Home)

    Treatment and support at home for those with advanced illness approaching end of life - when life expectancy is months, not years.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare: Home Infusion Therapy

    Delivery and administration of intravenous or subcutaneous medications in the home as a safe and effective alternative to inpatient care.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare: 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 EasyCare: 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 EasyCare: 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 EasyCare: 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 EasyCare: 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 EasyCare: Fitness

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

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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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