SubscribeRespite Care Services: Helping Caregivers Get a Break
Sometimes you just need a break. You need the opportunistic break that offers a few moments to rejuvenate, to enjoy, or accomplish those tasks that seem to sit idly in the proverbial “inbox” of life. As a caregiver for your senior loved one, you spend many of your waking hours working in your daily profession, commuting, coordinating, and making the world around you happen as seamlessly as possible. But, where do you find those mini-moments of time off from housekeeping chores, preparing meals, managing medications, bathing and dressing your senior family member?
Alzheimer’s Disease — No Longer Thought of as a One-Way Street
As you age, it is as important to take as much care of your brain as you do your body. Getting older affects our minds as much as it does our bodies. Over your lifetime, the ability of your brain to fight the damage of getting older, known as cognitive reserve, is no better than the response of your other muscles if you do not keep them toned. As the brain ages you begin having trouble focusing and performing actions that used to be a breeze. Don’t get discouraged, you can strengthen up your mind just like you strengthen those other muscles, by exercising your brain.
Long Term Care Covered by Life Insurance
Thanks to recent legislation, life insurance will now be able to cover long-term care. This is great news for those seniors that have run out of options to pay for the important assistance that they need on a daily basis. We want to ensure that they can continue to live as independent as possible with [...]
Selecting an In-Home Caregiver
So the “Aha” moment arrives. Circumstances make you realize two things:
1) I’m not as young as I used to be, and
2) “Old age ain’t for sissies” as the great Bette Davis once said.
Gradually, or sometimes suddenly, it happens… we can’t keep up with household chores, we can’t see the street signs to drive safely, we give up cooking or we can’t walk without holding on to the furniture.
Should Your Senior Be Driving?
Every time an incident occurs on the roads that involves a senior, the question arises again whether or not people of a certain age should have to pass their driving test again, or have special restrictions for operating a vehicle. Chances are, if you have a senior loved one, this has been a topic of [...]
Preventing Multiple Hospital Readmissions
It is an undeniable fact: Our bodies have a limited lifetime warranty. As we get older, our bodies just simply begin to break down; the inevitable wear and tear of 50, 60, or 70 years of life taking their toll. A significant medical event will often force many seniors to be hospitalized, sometimes for the [...]