Is Home Care Right for My Senior Loved One? When to Choose In-Home Care
There often comes a time when adult children or another family member might have to make different living and/or care arrangements for their aging parent, grandparent, aunt or sibling. Sometimes the spouse is still capable of handling any of these common changes, and the rest of the family should still include them fully in the […]
Benefits for Senior Veterans & In-Home Care
Our Veterans put their lives on the line to serve and protect our county. They fought for our freedoms and helped to defend our democracy and our rights. We owe them a lifetime of gratitude. Many of the amazing veterans who defended our country are now seniors and are in need of care and medical […]
How to Put Your Senior Loved One’s Affairs in Order
As difficult as it is to start a conversation about end of life, getting affairs in order before death does not have to be a monumental task. It is not something that you sit down one weekend and do. While parents are still in control of their mental faculties, adult children should approach them, treading […]
Senior Guardianship | What You Need to Know About Guardianship
Senior Guardianship: What You Need to Know About Guardianship Although the level of advancement varies by person, age ultimately brings impairment of physical and mental capacity. Many elderly people ultimately lose the ability to handle their financial and personal affairs. When the capacity to decide dwindles, guardians step in to maintain the necessary care and […]
Importance of Taking Medications Correctly for Seniors
As people age, most of them start to develop health problems. Those health problems accumulate and many of those conditions are treated with medications. The majority of elderly people take more than five different drugs. They take pills for high blood pressure, heart problems, diabetes, gout, urinary incontinence, arthritis and a multitude of other diseases […]
My Elderly Parents Have Unhealthy Habits | How To Intervene
Do you feel like your elderly parents have unhealthy habits? In this article, we will discuss how you can intervene as an adult child. To begin, we will discuss changing rolls. As a child, your parents were the ones who steered you from bad habits into good ones. They likely insisted on eating well and […]