Distance Caregiving: The Many Benefits of Working with a Senior Care Agency
They say distance makes the heart grow fonder, but living at a distance from senior parents may cause additional feelings: concern, helplessness, and worry, for example. It’s hard to understand exactly how your senior loved ones are doing through phone calls, video chats, emails, and letters. There are steps you can take, however, to ensure […]
How In-Home Care Services Can Complement Hospice Care
If you asked people who are within the last six months of their lives what is most important to them, you’re likely to hear answers such as: Retaining control over which services will be provided To be free from pain Emotional and spiritual support To remain at home In-home hospice care meets all of these […]
Good Nutrition Never Gets Old! Tips for a Healthy Diet for Older Adults
Remember family dinners at Grandma’s house? The enticing scents wafting through the kitchen would draw everyone in to assemble at the table to savor her home cooking. There were always plenty of leftovers for future meals or late-night snacks. Unfortunately, a healthy diet for many older adults may be difficult to achieve. The day-to-day reality […]
Learn About Care Options for the Elderly with an In-Home Care Consultation
You’ve just finished speaking with Mom on the phone, and have a feeling that something is not quite right. Even though it was a nice chat, her memory lapses were alarming. She assured you that she’s absolutely fine – that she’s eating very well (although she couldn’t remember what she had for dinner), taking her […]
Six Ways In-Home Care Services Can Helps Reduce Senior Loneliness and Isolation
Isolation. Loneliness. Fear. The pandemic has wreaked havoc on all of us in one way or another, but for senior loved ones in particular, the seclusion required to ensure safety from COVID-19 has had adverse effects on emotional, physical and mental wellbeing. Compassionate Nursing Services, a leading provider of St. Louis nursing care and home […]
The Importance of Long-Term Senior Care Planning
Being together over the holidays is a fantastic time to get caught up and the perfect time to have discussions about long-term senior care planning with elderly parents. Having an open and honest discussion around care needs, home modifications and finances is important to help fulfill the wishes of senior loved ones. Compassionate Nursing Services […]
Creating a Safe and Comforting Holiday for Loved Ones with Dementia
Living with dementia is daunting on any given day, but add in the disruptions to routine, extra visitors, decorations, and noise that come with the holidays, and you may just have a recipe for elevated agitation, stress, and discomfort. The secret to a satisfying holiday for both your family, along with a senior loved one […]
Senior Stress: Know the Waring Signs
They’re known as “the golden years” for good reason; growing older instills in us information from lessons learned during a lifetime, and the possibility to relax from the demanding pace of younger adulthood and make the time to truly savor what counts most. Nonetheless, our senior years may also be a time of added stress, […]
Compassionate Nursing Services’ Top Activities to Help Those with Dementia
If a family member is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or another kind of progressive dementia, everyday life can feel as though it’s a riddle to be figured out. Given that there are various stages of the disease, it’s common to find a variety of activities that are relaxing and meaningful for the senior in one […]
Provide Better COPD Care by Understanding These Four Stages
Since as many as 11 million individuals in the United States alone presently diagnosed with COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), we at Compassionate Nursing Services are familiar with the complexities and struggles connected with the airflow restrictions – and as a result, the lifestyle restrictions – that so many seniors with the disease face every […]