Your Mom’s Exhausted, How Do You Help?
Many chronic health conditions can lead to exhaustion. Some are physically exhausting and others are mentally exhausting. Your mom’s been battling the flu for a couple of weeks. Her energy fades as the day progresses. That’s just one reason your mom may be struggling with exhaustion. COVID, cancer, heart disease, chronic pain, and depression are […]
6 Things to Do for a Family Caregiver This Month
Help out the family caregiver in your mom’s life during National Family Caregivers Month. Family caregivers take on a lot of added stress as they provide care to a parent, try to maintain friendships, and take care of their household, children, and pets. Here are six ways you can help the family caregiver in your […]
Four Reasons to Adopt a Senior Pet
November is Adopt a Senior Pet month. If your elderly loved one has been considering becoming a pet owner for companionship or any other reason, November is the perfect month to consider adopting an older pet. Many people who become pet owners love the idea of starting out with a pet when it’s young, determined […]
Watch for These Symptoms of Lewy Body Dementia
Lewy body dementia, also called dementia with Lewy bodies, is a common type of progressive dementia much like Alzheimer’s disease. With Lewy body dementia, protein deposits, called Lewy bodies, develop in nerve cells in the brain regions involved in thinking, memory, and movement (motor control). Those who have it, have Lewy bodies in their brains […]
5 Advantages Your Senior Gets from 24-hour Home Care
It’s difficult as a family caregiver to be there for every situation that is becoming more of a challenge for your senior. Having 24-hour home care can take a lot of the guilt you might feel out of the equation. Around the clock care allows you to help your aging family member as much as […]
Keeping Seniors Safe on Halloween
All ages may find enjoyment in celebrating Halloween. But it may be difficult and unnerving for older family members, particularly alone. Senior home care can help a senior on the day of Halloween by making the house safer for them and helping them set up for trick-or-treaters if they wish to hand out candy. Whether […]
Meal Planning Tips For Seniors
For seniors that have trouble shopping or just don’t like doing it, meal planning is a great way to cut down on trips to the store. With home care assistance to help with things like chopping, cleaning vegetables, and portioning food seniors can prepare many of their meals in advance so that they don’t have […]
What Do You Do if You Live Far Away from Your Senior?
In a perfect world, you and your elderly family member would live close enough together that you could help her the second she needed it. But modern life doesn’t necessarily allow for that these days. That can leave you feeling as if you aren’t able to be there for her. Luckily, you have some other […]
5 Ways to Reduce the Risk of Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis can affect both men and women of all races, but it has a tendency to occur more often in Asian and white women who are past menopause. It is also hereditary so if you have an older relative who had osteoporosis, it’s more likely that your aging parent may either already have it or […]
Is it Time for Elder Care?
Whether you live far away from your senior or just cannot give her as much help as you really want to offer her, you might be looking for solutions to make sure she’s okay in her home. The best option is elder care, but how do you know that it’s time to bring in the […]
