{"id":158263,"date":"2021-01-20T00:27:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/next-avenue-how-to-get-a-vaccine-for-someone-who-is-homebound\/"},"modified":"2021-01-20T00:27:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T21:27:00","slug":"next-avenue-how-to-get-a-vaccine-for-someone-who-is-homebound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/next-avenue-how-to-get-a-vaccine-for-someone-who-is-homebound\/","title":{"rendered":"#Next Avenue: How to get a vaccine for someone who is homebound"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f916057090\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span 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class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/next-avenue-how-to-get-a-vaccine-for-someone-who-is-homebound\/#About_19_million_adults_over_65_are_mostly_homebound_and_53_million_have_health_conditions_that_make_leaving_home_difficult\" >About\u00a01.9 million adults over 65 are mostly homebound\u00a0and 5.3 million have health conditions that make leaving home difficult<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-6' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-6'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-6' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-6'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-6' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-6'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-6' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-6'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/next-avenue-how-to-get-a-vaccine-for-someone-who-is-homebound\/#How_to_be_proactive_for_a_homebound_persons_vaccine\" >How to be proactive for a homebound person\u2019s vaccine<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-6'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/next-avenue-how-to-get-a-vaccine-for-someone-who-is-homebound\/#What_some_local_governments_are_doing\" >What some local governments are doing<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-6'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/next-avenue-how-to-get-a-vaccine-for-someone-who-is-homebound\/#An_experts_advice_for_family_caregivers\" >An expert\u2019s advice for family caregivers<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/next-avenue-how-to-get-a-vaccine-for-someone-who-is-homebound\/#Arlene_Weintraub\" >Arlene Weintraub<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Next Avenue: How to get a vaccine for someone who is homebound<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"article__subhead\" itemprop=\"alternativeHeadline\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"About_19_million_adults_over_65_are_mostly_homebound_and_53_million_have_health_conditions_that_make_leaving_home_difficult\"><\/span>\n  About\u00a01.9 million adults over 65 are mostly homebound\u00a0and 5.3 million have health conditions that make leaving home difficult<br \/>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"column column--full article__content\">\n<div id=\"js-article__body\" class=\"article__body article-wrap at16-col16 barrons-article-wrap\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-sbid=\"WP-MKTW-0000131066\">\n<div class=\"barrons-article-ad-wrapper\">\n<div data-track=\"barrons-article-ad-wrap\" class=\"barrons-article-ad sticky_item\">\n<div class=\"barrons-main-article-ad-target sticky_target body_ad\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>       <em>This article is reprinted by permission from\u00a0<\/em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nextavenue.org\/\" class=\"icon none\"><em>NextAvenue.org<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> On January 9, Donna Lackner-Horn made <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointments for her parents, Trudy and Werner Lackner, and an aunt and uncle, to get their COVID-19 vaccines the following week at HealthAlliance Hospital-Foxhall in Kingston, N.Y., 45 minutes from their homes in Poughkeepsie, NY. Though she needed to transport them to the vaccination site, Lackner-Horn considered herself lucky to nab the appointments since her mom, 78, and uncle, 88, are mostly homebound with chronic health issues and she couldn\u2019t find a way to get them vaccinated where they live.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<p>\u201cOn <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, I follow various COVID awareness groups, but it was actually my town\u2019s supervisor who posted that the vaccines were being scheduled the next county over,\u201d says Lackner-Horn, 59, a nonprofit executive who lives in Hyde Park, NY. So, she clicked on a link in the Facebook post, which brought her to an app that allowed her to schedule all four appointments at the hospital. \u201cIt was just sheer luck I was scrolling through Facebook that day,\u201d says Lackner-Horn.<\/p>\n<p>As her experience shows, getting homebound relatives vaccinated against\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0isn\u2019t easy. But it\u2019s a problem a lot of caregivers will be facing: About\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commonwealthfund.org\/blog\/2016\/caring-invisible-homebound-importance-quality-measures\" class=\"icon none\">1.9 million adults over 65 are mostly homebound<\/a>\u00a0and another 5.3 million have health conditions that make leaving home difficult, according to the health policy think tank Commonwealth Fund.<\/p>\n<p>There is no national plan for getting COVID-19 vaccines delivered to older homebound adults.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You might like: <\/strong>Social Security for widows and widowers could face reform\u2014here\u2019s how the complicated rules work<\/p>\n<p>The phased rollout plans for the vaccines have been drawn up at the state level, and the early phases do include adults over 75 (in some cases, over 65). But it\u2019s logistically challenging to get the vaccines into homes, because the first two on the market, from Moderna<br \/>\n        MRNA,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/205619834\/composite\" class=\"negative\">-3.58%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n       and\u00a0Pfizer,<br \/>\n        PFE,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/202877789\/composite\" class=\"positive\">+0.08%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n       must be stored at ultracold temperatures.<\/p>\n<h6><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_be_proactive_for_a_homebound_persons_vaccine\"><\/span><strong>How to be proactive for a homebound person\u2019s vaccine<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h6>\n<p>So, it\u2019s likely that family members or other caregivers will need to arrange for homebound people to be transported to vaccine centers, says Dr. Steven Albert, professor and chair of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health\u2019s department of behavioral and community health <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a very confusing picture right now,\u201d Albert says. \u201cIt\u2019s easy to get vaccines to nursing homes. But for every one person in a nursing home, there are probably five people in their homes with equal levels of disability who rely on a combination of family and community-based services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So where should you start if you need to get a homebound parent vaccinated?<\/p>\n<div id=\"cx-membership-tile\"><\/div>\n<p>If they use a\u00a0home health agency, calling there for guidance may lead you in the right direction. Home health aides aren\u2019t licensed to administer vaccines, but the agencies that employ them might partner with other health care providers who can bring vaccines to people\u2019s homes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good read:<\/strong> Politics around masks, social distancing and vaccines is making America sicker, says former HHS secretary Louis Sullivan<\/p>\n<p>Some companies providing in-home health services are arranging transportation to COVID-19 vaccination sites for their homebound clients.<\/p>\n<p>They include Landmark Health, a Huntington Beach, Calif. company that provides in-home care in 16 states. While Landmark physicians can\u2019t bring the vaccines to homes because of the cold-storage requirement, they can assist patients getting to vaccination sites, says Dr. Michael Le, chief medical officer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur social workers can help them make appointments for vaccination at places that will minimize their time out of the home. They can also tap into community resources to arrange for transportation,\u201d Le says.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong> CDC officials say people with history of allergic reactions should be monitored after receiving a COVID-19 shot<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, you might try the local government where your parent lives, but don\u2019t get your hopes up. Just a few local governments are beginning to arrange for COVID-19 vaccines for their homebound populations.<\/p>\n<h6><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_some_local_governments_are_doing\"><\/span><strong>What some local governments are doing<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h6>\n<p>Florida\u2019s Miami-Dade County, for example, recently posted online that it started scheduling those vaccines. The Miami Beach fire department took 600 doses of the Moderna vaccine to a local apartment building for low-income older adults and the city has taken 200 older residents to a nearby medical center to get vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Orlando Sentinel, older homebound residents in the area\u2019s Seminole County can call to have a paramedic sent to them through a new, little-known program. (Florida\u2019s governor has given priority to COVID-19 vaccinations for people 65 and older but hasn\u2019t implemented a statewide plan for the homebound.)<\/p>\n<p>And the township of Nutley, N.J., just announced that it will deploy medical staff from nearby RWJ Barnabas Health to bring a COVID-19 vaccine to those who are homebound due to illness or immobility.<\/p>\n<p>Check with your parent\u2019s community\u2019s social media channels and local <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> websites.<\/p>\n<p>If your parent is part of a\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medicaidplanningassistance.org\/medicaid-hcbs-waivers\/#:~:text=For%20seniors%20and%20disabled%20persons,respite%20care%2C%20and%20homemaker%20services\" class=\"icon none\">Medicaid waiver program<\/a>\u00a0(state-funded providers of long-term home care), see if there\u2019s a care coordinator to call for information about a COVID-19 vaccination, Albert says.<\/p>\n<h6><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"An_experts_advice_for_family_caregivers\"><\/span><strong>An expert\u2019s advice for family caregivers<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h6>\n<p>Le\u2019s advice for family caregivers who need to transport parents to vaccination sites: Do some research in advance to minimize the hassle. He speaks from personal experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also see:<\/strong> Pharma industry warns against interfering with COVID vaccine shot intervals<\/p>\n<p>When Le got his COVID-19 vaccine at a site set up by the Orange County Fire Department, he was surprised that he had to wait nearly three hours in his car just to get into the vaccination parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line: \u201cIf you\u2019re bringing your mom or dad to a vaccination site, be proactive,\u201d Le says. \u201cIf there\u2019s a line, make sure there\u2019s a way for them to be seated in the shade or to have their spot saved in line, so it\u2019s not so much of a physical struggle for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for Lackner-Horn\u2019s four relatives, they got their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on January 12. The check-in and administrative work was \u201cseamlessly efficient,\u201d Lackner-Horn says.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, they were able to make appointments for the required second dose on-site. \u201cThey are all very pleased, and a bit elated,\u201d Lackner-Horn says. She\u2019s relieved.<\/p>\n<p><em>Arlene Weintraub\u00a0is a science journalist and author who has contributed to Forbes.com, the New York Times, U.S. News &amp; World Report, Cure, Fierce Markets and other media outlets. She was previously a senior writer based out of the New York City headquarters of BusinessWeek, where she wrote hundreds of articles that explored the science and business of health. She is the author of\u00a0\u201cHeal: The Vital Role of Dogs in the Search for Cancer Cures\u00a0and\u00a0Selling the Fountain of Youth.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This article is reprinted by permission from\u00a0<\/em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nextavenue.org\/\" class=\"icon none\"><em>NextAvenue.org<\/em><\/a><em>, \u00a9 2021 Twin Cities Public Television, Inc. 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