Omaha Insurance Solutions - May 2020

Maintaining Health While Homebound Stay Connected With These Helpful Resources Due to the growing concerns about COVID-19, getting the resources you need to maintain a healthy lifestyle is more challenging. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) request for social distancing makes it harder to get food and maintain social norms. So, to help maintain your well-being in these uncertain times, here are a few resources that will make getting food and keeping tabs on your family a breeze. Social Media Utilizing social media is a great way to keep in contact with your loved ones. Facebook is

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popular with older people — 1 out of 3 older adults already uses the platform because it’s easy to use. Facebook and other social media platforms can help you stay connected with friends, family, and groups of people with similar interests to avoid feeling so isolated at home. You can also continue to share photos and videos so you don’t miss a day in your loved ones’ lives. Video chat apps like Skype, Zoom, and Apple FaceTime enable you to have those essential face-to-face conversations when you can’t be with other people. If you’re unfamiliar with the applications, they are easy to download for free on your phone or computer, and they allow you to see and verbally chat if you have a webcam and microphone. (If you use a phone or laptop, this equipment is already built-in.) A video chat app also lets you be a part of important life moments like birthdays and anniversaries if a shelter-in-place order prevents you from celebrating in person. Ensure you’re up to date on the best ways to keep you and your family safe during these uncertain times by visiting CDC. gov for more information. schools and two physical therapy schools), health care remains the biggest employing industry in the area. People who work at the Mayo Clinic in other areas, like Sioux Falls, are fantastic because they’ve trained here. I know this from personal experience because my nephew Joey struggled with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and looked for doctors all over Nebraska. Now, he’s much healthier and studying to get into medical school. My other niece, Jessica, just completed her first year at UNMC. Having medical schools in the area does make a difference. Often, this results in more local efforts to push the medical field forward, and it attracts new, experimental business models. For example, Think Whole Person Healthcare is a unique doctor-led primary care clinic in Omaha, which not only has impressive architecture but is also creating a new, compassionate image of primary care clinics and their providers’ services for patients. Now researchers across the board are collaborating to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, and a study was released in late March that documented the contamination rate and how the virus has spread around the world. Everyone is working hard to get through this time together, and you can count on Omaha Insurance Solutions as another advisor and advocate to get you through this.

Food Delivery Because COVID-19 is easily transmitted, getting food at a grocery store is riskier. If you don’t prefer mobile apps like Postmates or Instacart, local food kitchens, municipalities, and senior centers may offer food delivery. Using a delivery service limits the number of people you interact with to the delivery person. For an added measure of safety, put a note on delivery instructions requesting they leave the bags at the door. If you have trusted family or friends nearby, reach out to them. They can pick up what you need when they’re already getting groceries, which is especially convenient if you don’t want to deal with mobile apps. Regardless of your method, you should become familiar with getting food delivered because you don’t know how long the situation will last.

Let’s be real: Omaha doesn’t have just good health care. It has some of the best in the world.

Newsweek’s first-ever World’s Best Hospitals 2019 ranking put the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) among the most elite and highest-rated hospitals in the world. The list included hospitals from Canada, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Japan, and more. Many other nationally acclaimed hospitals and health care facilities, like the Omaha Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, the Creighton University Medical Center, and the Methodist

Women’s Hospital, also add prestige to Omaha’s health care offerings.

With medical schools for nearly all fields (two dental

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