Anxiety and Older Adults: Decoding the Silent Struggle
Aging is accompanied by a set of common changes. Shifts in eating and sleeping habits, memory, and interests in activities are often attributed to the natural process of growing older. However, these very changes can sometimes be indicative of an often overlooked and untreated condition in older adults: anxiety. Anxiety and Older Adults: What Are […]
Dementia and Hearing Loss: Is There a Connection?
When checking in on Mom, you notice the television is blaring, and she’s asking you to repeat what you’ve just said, or even to speak up because she believes you’re talking too quietly. Some amount of hearing loss is fairly typical in older adults, and definitely requires staying on top of through regular hearing screenings. […]
Watch for These Signs That Could Point to Alzheimer’s
You cannot quite pinpoint it, but you have begun to observe some changes in Mom’s conduct recently. She’s a bit more forgetful than before. She keeps misplacing her car keys. At times she repeats herself. Could it be Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia? Currently, over 6.5 million people age 65 and older are struggling […]
Identifying Cognitive Impairment in a Family Member During Your Holiday Visit
Returning home for the holidays is a wonderful time to think back on holidays past and make some new memories. But, it’s also an occasion when family members may see changes to senior loved ones – changes that could be too minor to detect on a phone call or FaceTime, but are glaringly apparent in […]
Using Home Care for Support in the Aftermath of a Stroke
Experiencing a stroke is a frightening, unexpected experience. The outcomes can be minimal to life-changing, but a very important factor is clear: follow-up care is absolutely essential. Fortunately, a great deal of this care can be provided in the comfort of home. If you are taking care of a loved one in the aftermath of […]
Discovering How Home Care Helps with Cognitive Decline
If you are providing care for a senior family member, you are fully aware of the range of emotions involved. On one hand, it’s a huge honor and incredibly worthwhile. Having said that, it is often taxing, exhausting, and stressful. Add to that the other challenges concerning cognitive decline, and it is easy to understand […]
Learn the Facts About Senior Delirium and How to Treat It
With its similarities to dementia, delirium is often a baffling condition to comprehend and manage. Seniors are particularly susceptible to delirium, so our aging care experts have collected the following information that can help you recognize and respond appropriately to senior delirium if you suspect it in someone you love. What are the symptoms of […]
The Importance of Social Health and Wellness for Older Adults and How Home Care Can Help
Living through more than a year of a global pandemic taught us not to ever take for granted the small but extremely important things in life: shared laughter, hugging our friends and family, a lunch date in our favorite café. We discovered firsthand exactly how much social health and wellness are to be valued, and […]
Be Alert to the Warning Signs of Parkinson’s
Even though nearly one million individuals are living with Parkinson’s disease within the United States alone, the condition was perhaps first brought to the foreground after the diagnosis of Michael J. Fox. Since then, his foundation has funded breakthroughs in research and awareness, which were previously unparalleled, giving us hope for a future cure. In […]
What Is Happening with My Elderly Loved One? Delirium in the Hospital
A hospital stay is not something a senior looks forward to, but at least there’s the reassuring fact that the required care and treatment will be delivered to provide healing. But what happens when the outcome isn’t as expected, and the older adult winds up with a new health concern? More and more often, a […]