Understanding How to Advocate for a Loved One During a Hospital Stay

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

Palliative and Hospice Care: Decoding the Terminology for Families

When a loved one is dealing with a serious health condition, you might feel helpless. You want to do everything you can to alleviate the discomfort, fear, or pain, but are unsure of where to begin. One of the best ways you can help is by learning all that you can about the diagnosis, prognosis, […]

Adaptive Devices That Help People Live Better With Arthritis

When a person has arthritis, even easy, everyday tasks and activities may trigger unbearable pain. It may also result in a loss of independence, as the person starts to rely more heavily on others for aid. Thankfully, there are many helpful assistive devices that can both decrease pain and help people live better with arthritis. […]

How Partnering With a Home Care Agency Helps Family Caregivers Find Balance

It is a delicate balancing act. On the one hand, you have your work, which supplies you with fulfillment, purpose, and obviously, a paycheck. On the other hand, you’re providing care for someone you love. Trying to give 100% to both of these vitally important roles can leave you physically and mentally drained, with little […]

Discovering if Hearing Loss Can Lead to Dementia

When checking in on Mom, you notice the TV is blaring, and she is asking you to repeat what you’ve just said, or even to speak up because she thinks you are mumbling. Some degree of hearing loss is quite typical in seniors, and definitely requires staying on top of through regular hearing examinations. But […]

Investigating the Causes of COPD Flares and How Best to Manage Them

We’ve waited all winter for March! At long last, the days are becoming longer and we can start to feel the promise of springtime in the air. For a person with COPD, there is even more cause to celebrate the changing of the seasons. Cold, dry air is among several COPD triggers, and the appearance […]

Strategies to Protect Seniors’ Ability to Hear

Children’s laughter. A favorite tune. Birds singing. There are various lovely sounds to enjoy everywhere, so it’s important to take good care of the awesome gift of hearing. As we grow older, our ability to hear clearly can diminish, but there are measures we can take to keep our hearing as healthy as possible for […]

Depression in Seniors: Dealing with Anhedonia

After the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, it is not unusual for the winter doldrums to kick in. Yet what may possibly look at first glance to be a bit of boredom could in fact be something more serious which should be dealt with. Anhedonia is a loss of interest in activities that […]

Understanding How to Spot MCI in Loved Ones

Returning home for the holidays is a wonderful opportunity to reflect back on holidays past and make some new memories. But it’s also an occasion when family members frequently observe changes with their older loved ones – changes that could be too small to recognize on a phone call or FaceTime, but become glaringly apparent […]

How Home Care Aids Seniors Living With CHF

We only have one, and it’s arguably the most fundamental organ in our bodies – so hearing from our doctor that our heart is “failing” is distressing. Congestive heart failure impacts approximately 6 million individuals in the United States alone, according to research by the CDC, and although it’s a chronic illness, there are actions people […]