What's New
See the following featured Resource Kits at the bottom of this page. Anyone can view them.
How to Choose a Home Care Agency
Infection Control in the Home
Oxygen Cylinders Versus Portable Concentrators, Changing a Regulator
Welcome
Welcome to our Alamo Caregiver Empowerment (ACE) resource center for family caregivers. This is a new online caregiver training resource provided free of charge by the Alamo Area Council of Governments to anyone living in the following South Texas counties:
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Atascosa |
Frio |
Kendall |
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Bexar |
Gillespie |
Kerr |
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Bandera |
Guadalupe |
Medina |
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Comal |
Karnes |
Wilson |
The ACE resource center gives you an opportunity to improve your home-health-care knowledge and skills, and build your confidence in your abilities in ways that may help you feel less guilt. It will also help you enhance the quality of care you provide to your loved one and even reduce complications and hospitalizations.
We provide how-to instruction through 3-to-10 minute videos that specifically address the challenges family caregivers face day to day. You can watch the videos at the time that is most convenient for you. You can stop the video and watch it at a later time and you can review all or part of the video as often as you wish. There is no limit to the number of views.
Each month, we add more resources to help you or an elder you love live the fullest, healthiest, safest life possible.
Currently available resource kits are listed below and viewable in the areas listed in the blue band above.
Our Newest Resources
Home Care
Working Effectively With an Agency
Diseases
How to Manage Parkinson's at Home
How to Manage Dementia at Home
Setting Up a Home for Dementia (A)
Setting Up a Home for Dementia (B)
Other Available Resources
Daily Living
Elder Home Remodeling: Case Study
Rehabilitation
Introduction to Speech Therapy
Introduction to Occupational Therapy
Introduction to Physical Therapy
Legal/Financial
Health Care Power of Attorney
HIPAA Information Authorization
Intoduction to Living Wills
Introduction to DNRs
Durable Power of Attorney
Home Care
How to Choose a Home Care Agency
What to Expect from Caregivers
Infection Control in the Home
Changing an Occupied Bed
Safe Bed-to-Chair Transfers
Using Oxygen in the Home
Repositioning a Person in Bed
Equipment
Introduction to Wheelchairs
Introduction to Canes
Introduction to Walkers and Rollators
Operating a Patient Lift (Hoyer)
Operating a Suction Device
Operating an Oxygen Concentrator
Operating a Homefill Oxygen System
Oxygen Cylinders versus Portable Concentrators, Changing a Regulator
Oxygen Safety
Operating an Electric Hospital Bed
Operating a Pressure-Relieving Mattress
Sooner or later, most everyone needs care in his of her own home. However, choosing the right home care agency and setting things up so that you or your loved one gets the most possible benefit from home care can take some time and effort. The purpose of this video is to start you in the right direction.
Infection control in the home requires a combination of frequent hand washing, use of gloves when handling contaminated materials and routine cleaning of environmental surfaces. This video reviews specific techniques that make a home safer for both elder and caregiver.
Oxygen cylinders provide greater mobility to patients who need oxygen. There are also portable oxygen concentrators, which allow limited travel periods disconnected, but also provide oxygen for as long as they can be plugged in. You can even operate them off cigarette lighters in cars and, unlike cylinders, take them on airplanes. This video explores your options and also shows how to change an oxygen regulator on a cylinder.