Family Caregivers Need Vacations Too
We talk about it all the time – the tremendous responsibilities that fall on family caregivers. Caring for an elderly parent can be emotionally and physically draining. And for primary caregivers, it is often a 24/7, 365-day-a-year job. Taking any kind of break – let alone an actual planned vacation...
If your loved one is one of the 5.3 million Americans suffering from dementia, you know the challenges of providing care. What may begin as initial, occasional forgetfulness can progress into impaired communication, poor judgement, disorientation, confusion, aggression, and problems with swallowing and walking. As our population ages, the increase...
DEALING WITH ‘I WANT TO GO HOME’
Going home and “getting out of here” are common themes if you love someone with dementia. As family members we try to reassure by saying things like, “This is your home now,” or “You don’t live there anymore,” but often these reassurances have the opposite effect. Imagine if you woke...
Sometimes Seniors Need Help, But Won't Ask
Aging is not for the faint of heart. I know, because I’m one of those difficult seniors who would like some help, but I don’t ask. A recent survey from AARP reports that nearly 90 percent of seniors want to stay in their own home as they age, which is...
In-Home Care versus Assisted Living Facilities
Most people are familiar with assisted living facilities. However, they are less familiar with in-home assisted living, also known as in-home care. Assisted Living Facilities Assisted living facilities offer lodging, usually with some housekeeping, meals, medication reminders and medication administration, recreation, and various levels of one-on-one scheduled assistance. For example,...
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Are Your Aging Parents Safe In Their Home?
Statistics tell us that most seniors want to “age in place”, staying in their home among familiar surroundings and in the midst of their friends and family. However, according to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, falls are the number one cause of death and injury to those...
Unfinished business: Mourning your dreams for the future or the life you expected to have.
In the business of senior care, we see firsthand how unfinished business can affect you both now and later. We see the beginning stages when an adult child can’t bring herself to visit her mom after a stroke, and we see the end result when she’s overcome with grief and...
TIPS ON PRESCRIPTION DRUG SAFETY
If you are older, or the caregiver for someone that currently takes multiple prescription medications simultaneously to treat different conditions and symptoms, mismanagement of any medication can be harmful and could lead to hospitalization or even death. What can you do to prevent a medication mismanagement with an elderly family...
HOME CARE: ENHANCING THE LIVES OF PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
For an estimated 5 million people in communities across the United States, developmental disabilities are part of life. Their conditions – autism, Down syndrome, muscular dystrophy and cerebral palsy, to name a few – may impact physical capacity, language, learning or behavior, but not their spirit. When people with these...
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RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS: GOOD FOR THE WORLD, AND GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH
Next Week, February 12 to 18, is Random Acts of Kindness Week. And it’s the perfect opportunity to shower some kindness on the people in your life — or maybe even a total stranger. We’ve all heard stories about the person at the drive-thru who bought coffee for the stranger who...
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