Four Tips for Making Stroke Recovery Easier
Strokes happen when blood moving through the brain is blocked in some way. Typically, this means that there was a clot or that a blood vessel in the brain ruptured. Recovering from a stroke can take more time and energy than your senior realizes, so it helps if you’ve got a plan for making the…
Read MoreFive Ways to Help a Senior with Mobility Issues
You might not be able to take over every single task or issue that’s challenging your senior, but you might be able to help her to manage her mobility concerns. The biggest concern is making sure that your elderly family member is as safe as possible and that she’s able to do what she wants…
Read MoreElderly Care Benefits For Seniors With Dementia
Seniors who have dementia may at some point need to be in a Memory Care facility but often they can spend years aging in place at home with elderly care support. Being in a familiar environment where they have lived for years, sometimes even decades, can be comforting to someone with dementia. It can also…
Read MoreFour Rainy Day Activities for Your Parents
Rainy days in the summer are necessary, but they can also make you feel trapped. If your parents are fighting boredom because they can’t go outside, it’s time to find ways to keep them busy when they’re stuck inside. Here are four activities to keep them happy when they can’t go outside. Bake Cookies Baking…
Read MoreThree Ways to Help Home Care Improve Safety for the Senior in Your Life
Safety is and should remain one of the top priorities for people supporting aging parents and other loved ones. As people get older and begin having trouble with their balance, strength, memory, or other issues, safety becomes compromised. There are things you can do to improve safety, though. Talking about the benefits of home care…
Read MoreSenior Citizens Can Get Better Sleep with These Tips
Some elderly people suffer from insomnia. If your elderly loved one is having this issue, it is important to address it as soon as possible. The longer someone goes with low quality or no sleep, the more health issues they might have because of it. You and caregivers can help your elderly loved one to…
Read MoreThings to Consider When Buying Grab Bars
Around 28% of adults aged 65 or older fall at least once a year. Of those, about 10 percent were injured. Head injuries and broken bones are the most common injuries after a fall. Bathrooms are one of the areas where a fall is more common. Around 29 percent of all falls inside a home…
Read MoreAsking for Help as an Unpaid Family Caregiver
Few family caregivers receive pay for the things they do to help their parents. If their parents qualify for Medicaid and family caregivers are offered payment, it’s rarely a living wage. When those family caregivers have not reached the age to retire, it’s incredibly stressful to try to bring in an income while also caring…
Read MoreHow To Be The Best Caregiver You Can Be
When your parents were younger, you probably never imagined that they would some day require your help, just to keep going. But perhaps that day has come. The number of people over 65 is increasingly rapidly as modern medicine figures out more and more ways to cheat death. Your mother or father may fall into…
Read MoreHow Can You Get Ready to Talk to Your Senior about End-of-life Plans?
Bracing yourself to talk to your senior about how she wants her later years to be is common for family caregivers. It’s vital to go ahead and have the talk, even if you don’t feel completely prepared at first. You’ll have more chances to work out details. It’s not about Having the Whole Plan Right…
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