Compassionate Nursing Services’ Top Tips for Helping Seniors Enjoy Summer to the Fullest
Who doesn’t love the longer, warmer, relaxing days of the summer months? With family get-togethers and reasons to celebrate such as graduations, weddings, summer holiday gatherings, and more, many older adults are more active during the summertime. And since it’s easy for older adults to rapidly become overheated, it’s critical to know how to spot […]
Compassionate Nursing Services Shares Top Winter Tips to Keep Seniors Safe
Wintertime is brimming with a great deal of beauty: twinkling icicles, powdery white snow, warm, inviting fires. But it can also be laden with dangers, especially for seniors. The care team at Compassionate Nursing Services wants to help you keep your senior loved ones safe this winter season with the following tips: Prevent hypothermia. When […]
Try These Holiday Activities for Seniors with the Whole Family!
It’s natural to become overwhelmed by the whirlwind of tasks that need to be taken care of during the holiday season: all of the shopping and wrapping, planning and decorating, writing and sending, visiting and baking. But in the course of the busyness, it’s also easy to lose sight of the value of slowing down […]
Help Seniors Celebrate a Happy, Healthy Holiday with Diabetes
Nothing says “family” like Thanksgiving, as we gather together in gratitude with those we love to enjoy the simple gift of togetherness. And, as we mentioned in our previous blog post, at the center of the festivities is the classic, lavish dinner that we all eagerly prepare for long before the big day, which can […]
How to Provide the Best Level of Cancer Care and Friendship
Discovering a beloved friend or family member has been diagnosed with cancer can be heart-stopping. It’s difficult to know how to respond, and we may be fearful of saying or doing the wrong thing – regrettably, often leading to distancing ourselves from the person with cancer as a result of our own distress. But as […]
Caring for Cancer: How to Ease the Side Effects of Chemo
Chemotherapy saves lives, and is used to treat as many as 650,000 Americans each year; but as miraculous as this treatment method may be, it’s not without risks and often uncomfortable side effects. Compassionate Nursing Services, top providers of St. Louis home healthcare services, helps break down the most common side effects of chemo, and […]
Caregiver Corner: What to Expect from Each Stage of Alzheimer’s
Like the changing of the seasons, the progression of Alzheimer’s disease can be marked by a number of key differentiators. And although each individual experiences the disease uniquely, there are some commonalities prevalent that typically present in each stage. Compassionate Nursing Services of St. Louis offers the following signs for family caregivers to be aware […]
Experience the Physical and Emotional Oasis of Respite Care
Family caregivers and dementia care providers, we salute you! We know what a selfless lifestyle you’ve undertaken to provide ongoing care for your senior loved one at home, and the many benefits he or she is enjoying with the opportunity to age in place where it’s most comfortable. But we also know how trying it […]
Are You in Danger of Experiencing Caregiver Burnout?
As much as caring for our senior loved ones is a great honor and rewarding in a plethora of ways, it can also quickly become overwhelming. Meeting the needs of another person naturally means we have less time to meet our own, and something has to give, whether that’s self-care, our job, our other relationships, […]
When the Weather Outside Is Frightful, Watch for these Signs of Hypothermia in Seniors
Does the term “hypothermia” bring to mind a rugged ice fisherman spending hours huddled in sub-zero temperatures? Certainly, it couldn’t affect our senior loved ones who spend most of their time cozily tucked indoors. Or could it? The cold, hard facts are that seniors lose body heat faster than they did when they were younger, […]