Posts Tagged ‘caregiver’
How a Home Care Provider Can Help Your Parents Maintain Their Dignity
When the aged person in your family was in the prime age, they are quite busy assisting others and contributing to your family and taking care of you and your siblings. But when they the reach their old age and face the consequences of aging they eventually need help from others to you and your…
Read MoreSenior Care Awareness: Itchy Skin
Skin problems occupy a major role in senior care and those involved in-home care assistance of aged people must know how to deal with various skin conditions caused due to advancing age. As your aged parents or grandparents become older there is excess water loss in the skin and they get into a condition called…
Read MoreSenior Care Awareness: Understanding the Risk for Falls
Falling and getting injured is a part of an elderly person’s life. Most of the home care solutions are requested for attending on seniors who are injured in a recent fall. The risk of falling and getting seriously injured is a real threat to the well being of elderly persons. Even in addition to the…
Read MoreWhat is In-Home Healthcare?
Home healthcare is the individual care that is provided by the professionally trained caregiver to the client at home instead of a healthcare facility – such as a nursing home or daycare center. Home care or in-home care saves the expenses and offers satisfaction to the people who hire a caregiver as they don’t have…
Read MoreAlzheimer In-home Care
Alzheimer’s disease is not a physical disability that can be covered by simple in-home services. It’s a brain disorder that affects the part of the human brain that is concerned with memory formation and recognition. Alzheimer’s patients require the services of skilled persons to deal with them in the best possible way, lovingly and delicately.…
Read MoreSanitizing Your Home: Benefits
It’s not enough that your home looks and smells clean. To ensure that you and your loved ones can live where everyone can remain happy and healthy, it’s also important sanitize your home on a microscopic level. There is no way to make your home absolutely free from disease-causing microbes at any given time. However, it…
Read MoreReasons Why People Choose Home Care
When you have a senior adult in your home with physical and mental conditions you will be in a dilemma whether to give them home care medical treatment or take them to a nursing home. There are many types of senior caregiver services available in your local area. By searching for home health care near…
Read MoreSenior Village: A New Way of Living
As we have discussed many times on our blog, it is apparent that seniors would prefer to stay in the privacy and comfort of their own home as they age. A recent AARP survey found that, for adults over the age of 65, 88% indicated that they would prefer to remain in their own homes…
Read MoreSeniors Want to Remain at Home: Here’s Why
Most seniors want to stay in their homes as they age. Moving comes with both physical and emotional stress, and many seniors are afraid of leaving behind beloved neighbors and a family home full of memories. Add the fear of the unknown to those concerns and a move to senior living can be downright overwhelming.…
Read MoreHow to Help Seniors Cope with Loneliness
More than one in three senior Americans call themselves lonely, adding up to their feelings of isolation especially during the holidays, geriatric professionals reiterate. Loneliness prevails as a serious issue among the elderly adults, preventing them in living independently and as vibrant as possible, Dr. Sonja Rosen, Cedars-Sinai Medical Group chief of geriatric medicine, said.…
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