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Healthy Habits
  • Staying Active is the Key to Avoiding Arthritis Pain Each year, May 31st is National Senior Health & Fitness Day. It’s a day when older adults are encouraged to get active and find ways to improve their health. In 2023, the theme is “Move More to Do More.” Your dad’s arthritis keeps him immobile more than he should be. When ... Continue Reading
  • Four Things to Know During National Nutrition Month March is National Nutrition Month, a month designed to raise awareness of the things your body needs for optimal health and energy. Take time during National Nutrition Month to learn a few facts about the dietary needs of your senior and how elder care can help them stay on ... Continue Reading

Home Care Assistance
  • Five Parkinson’s Disease Side Effects that Affect Quality of Life When a senior is managing life with Parkinson’s disease, there are a lot of changes that they have to manage, sometimes very quickly as their health changes. Some of these changes dramatically reduce quality of life and make life more complicated. It’s important to have help ... Continue Reading

Senior Health Issues
  • Five Parkinson’s Disease Side Effects that Affect Quality of Life When a senior is managing life with Parkinson’s disease, there are a lot of changes that they have to manage, sometimes very quickly as their health changes. Some of these changes dramatically reduce quality of life and make life more complicated. It’s important to have help ... Continue Reading
  • What Can Seniors Do When They’re Living with Chronic Pain? What Can Seniors Do When They’re Living with Chronic Pain? Chronic pain is something that millions of seniors live with every single day. Pain that doesn’t go away makes it difficult to sleep, difficult to get around, and almost impossible to enjoy life most days. When even ... Continue Reading
  • Eight Ways for Seniors to Manage Triggers of COPD Seniors living with COPD quickly realize the importance of identifying and addressing the triggers that worsen their symptoms. Effective management of these triggers not only reduces exacerbations but also enhances the overall quality of life for individuals with COPD. These ... Continue Reading
  • 4 Things Seniors With Respiratory Illness Should Have At Home Estimates are that nearly 1 in 7 seniors struggle with some type of respiratory illness. Many of those illnesses are long-term, progressive, or chronic illnesses. Seniors often need to make lifestyle changes and use special medical equipment like nebulizers, inhalers, or ... Continue Reading

24-Hour Home Care
  • What to Expect From 24-Hour Home Care You're exhausted and can't keep doing all that you're currently responsible for. Your dad lives with you, but he has dementia and isn't sleeping more than two or three hours each night. If you don't get up when he's awake, he tries to take off outside, which sets off door ... Continue Reading

Activity Ideas
  • 5 Benefits of Adult Coloring for Seniors When your loved one lives alone, you will want to come up with activities to keep them busy. With home care there for support and companionship, your senior loved one can enjoy a multitude of hobbies. One of the best hobbies is coloring or even painting! This is a fun thing ... Continue Reading

Aging in Place
  • When Should Families Check in on Their Seniors? Caring for aging family members is a big job and they often want a high degree of independence in their daily lives. But staying on top of what is going on is a crucial aspect of making sure that seniors have what they need, when they need it. Family caregivers are often ... Continue Reading

Cancer
  • Four Things to Learn for Esophageal Cancer Awareness Month Around 1 out of 125 men will be diagnosed with esophageal cancer during their lifetime. Around 20% of people with this cancer respond well to treatments, and catching the disease early increases the odds of beating it. April is Esophageal Cancer Awareness Month. Those are ... Continue Reading

Cataracts
  • Four Lifestyle Tips for Preventing or Slowing the Progression of Cataracts Cataracts are an extremely common eye condition characterized by clouding in the lens. Cataracts significantly impact vision and quality of life. While aging is a primary risk factor for cataracts, certain lifestyle modifications and dietary choices can help prevent or slow ... Continue Reading

Chronic Conditions
  • Eight Ways for Seniors to Manage Triggers of COPD Seniors living with COPD quickly realize the importance of identifying and addressing the triggers that worsen their symptoms. Effective management of these triggers not only reduces exacerbations but also enhances the overall quality of life for individuals with COPD. These ... Continue Reading
  • 4 Things Seniors With Respiratory Illness Should Have At Home Estimates are that nearly 1 in 7 seniors struggle with some type of respiratory illness. Many of those illnesses are long-term, progressive, or chronic illnesses. Seniors often need to make lifestyle changes and use special medical equipment like nebulizers, inhalers, or ... Continue Reading

Chronic Pain
  • What Can Seniors Do When They’re Living with Chronic Pain? What Can Seniors Do When They’re Living with Chronic Pain? Chronic pain is something that millions of seniors live with every single day. Pain that doesn’t go away makes it difficult to sleep, difficult to get around, and almost impossible to enjoy life most days. When even ... Continue Reading

Companion Care at Home
  • How Does Companion Care at Home Help Keep Seniors Active? Over time, seniors find themselves becoming more and more sedentary. Health issues may start to convince them that they need to get physically active again, but that’s not always an easy thing to do. And if family caregivers live far away, they may wonder how they can help ... Continue Reading
  • 5 Tips for Introducing the Idea of Companion Care at Home to Aging Adults At some point, seniors may not necessarily need a lot of help with tasks, but they may still be having some trouble socially. Friends and family move away or are otherwise unavailable and that can make it difficult for aging adults to have the companionship that they need ... Continue Reading

Exercise
  • Staying Active is the Key to Avoiding Arthritis Pain Each year, May 31st is National Senior Health & Fitness Day. It’s a day when older adults are encouraged to get active and find ways to improve their health. In 2023, the theme is “Move More to Do More.” Your dad’s arthritis keeps him immobile more than he should be. When ... Continue Reading

fraud prevention
  • Common Scams and How to Help Seniors Protect Themselves Scams that take advantage of seniors have sadly become more common in recent years. The older generation is often seen as easy targets because they are often alone, might not know much about technology, and tend to trust people without question. To keep them from falling for ... Continue Reading

Home Care
  • How Does Companion Care at Home Help Keep Seniors Active? Over time, seniors find themselves becoming more and more sedentary. Health issues may start to convince them that they need to get physically active again, but that’s not always an easy thing to do. And if family caregivers live far away, they may wonder how they can help ... Continue Reading
  • What to Expect From 24-Hour Home Care You're exhausted and can't keep doing all that you're currently responsible for. Your dad lives with you, but he has dementia and isn't sleeping more than two or three hours each night. If you don't get up when he's awake, he tries to take off outside, which sets off door ... Continue Reading
  • 5 Tips for Introducing the Idea of Companion Care at Home to Aging Adults At some point, seniors may not necessarily need a lot of help with tasks, but they may still be having some trouble socially. Friends and family move away or are otherwise unavailable and that can make it difficult for aging adults to have the companionship that they need ... Continue Reading

Hospital Recovery
  • Why Seniors Should Start Moving Immediately After A Hospital Stay When seniors come home after a hospital stay, they often still have some healing left to do. But doctors and caregivers that are there to provide post-hospital care often will tells seniors and their families that seniors need to get up and start moving around right away ... Continue Reading

Meals and Nutrition
  • Four Things to Know During National Nutrition Month March is National Nutrition Month, a month designed to raise awareness of the things your body needs for optimal health and energy. Take time during National Nutrition Month to learn a few facts about the dietary needs of your senior and how elder care can help them stay on ... Continue Reading

Parkinson's Disease
  • Five Parkinson’s Disease Side Effects that Affect Quality of Life When a senior is managing life with Parkinson’s disease, there are a lot of changes that they have to manage, sometimes very quickly as their health changes. Some of these changes dramatically reduce quality of life and make life more complicated. It’s important to have help ... Continue Reading

Post-Hospital Care
  • Why Seniors Should Start Moving Immediately After A Hospital Stay When seniors come home after a hospital stay, they often still have some healing left to do. But doctors and caregivers that are there to provide post-hospital care often will tells seniors and their families that seniors need to get up and start moving around right away ... Continue Reading

Senior Living
  • When Should Families Check in on Their Seniors? Caring for aging family members is a big job and they often want a high degree of independence in their daily lives. But staying on top of what is going on is a crucial aspect of making sure that seniors have what they need, when they need it. Family caregivers are often ... Continue Reading
  • 5 Benefits of Adult Coloring for Seniors When your loved one lives alone, you will want to come up with activities to keep them busy. With home care there for support and companionship, your senior loved one can enjoy a multitude of hobbies. One of the best hobbies is coloring or even painting! This is a fun thing ... Continue Reading

Senior Safety
  • Common Scams and How to Help Seniors Protect Themselves Scams that take advantage of seniors have sadly become more common in recent years. The older generation is often seen as easy targets because they are often alone, might not know much about technology, and tend to trust people without question. To keep them from falling for ... Continue Reading