Family Caregiving Tips: How to Advocate for Older Loved Ones During a Hospital Stay

Whether a loved one is hospitalized for a planned procedure or an unplanned medical crisis, you may be left feeling vulnerable and helpless. You’re trusting the trained medical experts to fulfill all your loved one’s needs and to know exactly what to do to help keep them feeling comfortable during their hospital stay. However, as […]

Palliative Care or Hospice Care: Which Is Right For A Loved One?

When someone you love is struggling with a serious health issue, you might feel helpless. You want to do everything you can to ease the discomfort, fear, or pain, but are unsure where to begin. One of the most effective ways you can help is by learning whatever you can regarding the diagnosis, prognosis, and […]

What Are the Best Devices for a Person Living With Arthritis?

For someone with arthritis, even simple, daily tasks and activities can result in crippling pain. It may also result in a loss of self-reliance, if the person starts to depend more heavily on others for support and assistance. Fortunately, there are a variety of helpful devices which can both reduce pain and permit individuals living […]

How Home Care Helps Family Caregivers Find Balance

It’s a delicate balancing act. On one hand, you have your career, which provides you fulfillment, purpose, and obviously, a paycheck. On the other hand, you’re taking care of someone you love. Trying to give 100% to these two vitally important roles can leave you physically and mentally emptied, with little if any time to […]

How Are Dementia and Hearing Loss Linked?

When checking in on Mom, you find the television is blaring, and she is asking you to repeat what you’ve just said, or even to speak up because she thinks you’re mumbling. Some extent of hearing loss is definitely typical in older loved ones, and is deserving of staying on top of through regular hearing examinations. […]

Breathe Easier Knowing the Typical COPD Triggers to Avoid

We’ve all been waiting patiently for March! At last, the days are becoming longer and now we can begin to feel the promise of spring in the air. For an individual with COPD, there’s even more cause to celebrate the seasonal changes. Cold, dry air is one of several COPD triggers, and the arrival of […]

Older Loved Ones With Anhedonia: How Home Care Can Help

Following the hustle and bustle of the holidays, it is not uncommon for the winter doldrums to kick in. Yet what may possibly appear at first to be a touch of boredom could in reality be something much more serious that should be attended to. Anhedonia, is a loss of interest in activities that someone […]

Top Health Strategies for Older Adults in 2023

Have those New Year’s resolutions already been dropped? If they have, do not fret; you are in good company. Some of us are enthusiastic about a major lifestyle change once we roll over into the new year, but life quickly rushes in and distracts us from sustaining our determination to succeed. Still, it is never […]

Understanding the Stages of CHF and How to Best Manage Them

We have only one, and it is arguably the most fundamental organ in our bodies – so learning that our heart is “failing” is alarming. Congestive heart failure impacts about 6 million people in the United States alone, according to research by the CDC, and though it’s a chronic condition, there are actions people can take […]

In-Home Care Offers Pain Management Assistance for Older Adults

Aching. Burning. Stinging. That is the way many older adults with chronic pain express what they live with on a daily basis. Chronic pain may occur anywhere in the body, in some cases for no apparent reason at all. It is defined by pain that continues for more than three months, either nonstop or off […]