Senior Caregiver Home Safety Tips
By: Rhiannon Acree The elderly are more prone to accidents at home for a variety of reasons. A senior caregiver can help your elderly loved ones avoid accidents by creating a home safety checklist. By...
View ArticleCaring for Seniors in Their Own Home
By: Steve Spearry Quite a few senior citizens have no wish to relinquish their autonomy. They want to stay in their own home, where they are familiar and comfortable, rather than relocating to a...
View ArticleSigns that Dementia Now Requires Senior Care or Senior Care Services
By Carolyn Starks Watching a loved one become frustrated due to an inability to perform tasks that they have always done is heartbreaking. Making the decision to invite senior care services into your...
View ArticleCaregiver Agreements: A Creative Solution to the Elder Care Dilemma
by: Gene Osofsky Caregiver agreements can be like a family-based insurance plan – creatively ensuring that elderly family members receive the loving care they deserve. Your frail mother is still...
View ArticleElderly Care Options – Home Care Nurse or Home Care Helper?
by: Linda Dunkelberger As more elderly adults are choosing to live independently, family members and caretakers must make important choices about their daily care. In the majority of these situations,...
View ArticleFamily Caregiver Training Needed
“H” from Chicago, I heard you when you joined a lively discussion over hospice at home here a couple of weeks ago and asked, “where can family members get the training to do all the nursing tasks?” In...
View ArticleHow to Choose Between Adult Day Care and In-Home Senior Care
By Linda Dunkelberger Many times caregivers need to have additional assistance when providing in home-senior care for a family member or friend. When you are evaluating options for in-home senior care,...
View ArticleFlu Facts and Ways to Stay Flu Free
Flu Facts Influenza, also know as the flu, is a virus that affects the respiratory system. Influenza is spread through air droplets from an ill person to other people generally by coughing and...
View ArticleMarch is National Nutrition Month
March is National Nutrition Month. It is closing in on that time of year where people traditionally start to fade from their New Years resolutions of eating healthy and exercising. Regardless of if it...
View ArticleElder Care – 3 Qualities A Caregiver Must Possess
By: Elizabeth Johnson As people age, elder care can be one of the toughest decisions you can make. You cannot seem to be there for your elderly all the time. You need to have someone to care for them....
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