Personal Care at Home: Accurate Blood Pressure Readings for Seniors
A Guide to Accurate Blood Pressure Readings for Seniors: Tips for Optimal Monitoring As the years pass, monitoring things like blood pressure becomes more and more important. This is because consistent blood pressure is important for keeping your heart healthy and avoiding additional problems. In this blog post, seniors and their caregivers, including loved ones […]
Alzheimer’s Care: Six Memory Tricks to Help Your Loved One
Navigating Memory Loss: 6 Effective Strategies for Alzheimer’s Care Memory loss is one of the key symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease. It often affects short-term or recent memories first, slowly working its way into memories that have been stored for decades. It can be both frustrating and heartbreaking for both the person with Alzheimer’s disease and […]
Personal Care at Home Tips to De-Stress
Being an elderly person does not make you immune to stress; in fact, just like anyone else, seniors can get stressed too. You may be stressed due to different things, need more care at home while aging in place like personal care at home, suffer from challenging health conditions, or be stressed about money and […]
Eight Ways to Tell When Seniors Are Experiencing Sundowning
Seniors with Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, and other cognitive illnesses might experience something called sundowning. Understanding and recognizing sundowning is crucial for family caregivers so that they can put solutions in place to help seniors cope with it. Home care providers can help aging adults and families to understand what is happening and how to manage […]
24-Hour Home Care Bedroom Safety Tips
Living alone as a senior can be potentially dangerous for several reasons. Your mom or dad may face health emergencies such as falls, strokes, or heart attacks, and living alone can delay the prompt medical attention they may require. Everyday tasks like cooking, cleaning, and managing medications can become more challenging as one ages, increasing […]
Keeping Thanksgiving Traditions in a New Way With Home Care
Thanksgiving is right around the corner. Many families across the country celebrate it by gathering together, enjoying a large meal (usually there is turkey involved), and then spending some quality time with their family. That quality time can look different for many families who have built up traditions around it through the decades. If your […]
Alzheimer’s Care – Best Communication Strategies
One of the most difficult parts of caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s is experiencing the loss of being able to communicate. From telling jokes to giving sage advice to sharing stories, you slowly watch it all slip away. How we communicate with someone is a big part of how our relationship is formed […]
In-Home Care – Superfoods to Sneak Into Senior Meals
A balanced diet is essential for maintaining optimal physical health, as it provides the necessary nutrients to support immune function, muscle strength, and bone health, all of which become increasingly important with age. Secondly, diet plays a pivotal role in managing chronic health conditions that seniors may be more susceptible to, such as diabetes, heart […]
Personal Care at Home – Seven Steps to a Safer Bathroom
If your elderly loved one has moved into your home so that you can care for him, there may be some changes that need to make him feel comfortable and safe, and that this is his new home. Making your home his home can be a big challenge from where he sleeps, to how chores […]
Home Care – Easy Ways Seniors Can Fight Insomnia
According to some studies as many as 50% of seniors battle insomnia. For some seniors insomnia goes away easily, but for other seniors the fight to get good sleep is a constant battle. There are many reasons why seniors develop insomnia, like side effects from medication, depression, or anxiety. Treating the underlying cause of insomnia […]
