Exercise and Dementia: How to Help Loved Ones Stay Active
When an older adult has dementia and all of the challenges that it entails, family caregivers need a toolbox full of helpful strategies. Out of all the innovative approaches caregivers can try to help make life as comfortable, safe, and meaningful as possible, there is one remarkably effective strategy that could be forgotten: exercise. Exercise and […]
Improving Senior Male Health
If your dad, grandpa, or other father figure seems to have a preference for doing anything at all over going to the doctor, he’s in good company. The Cleveland Clinic recently surveyed men about this very topic and uncovered that only about half of them get regular examinations, and almost three-quarters of those interviewed prefer […]
Working with a Home Care Agency to Provide Long-Distance Senior Care
People say distance makes the heart grow fonder, but long-distance senior care may cause additional feelings: concern, helplessness, and worry, for example. It’s hard to know precisely how older loved ones are doing through telephone calls, letters, emails, and video chats. There are numerous actions you can take, however, to ensure their health and wellbeing, […]
Vascular Dementia and How It Differs from Other Forms of Dementia in Seniors
As the most common form of dementia in seniors, Alzheimer’s impacts more than 5.8 million Americans. However, there is another, lesser-known form of dementia causing cognitive problems for seniors: vascular dementia. Knowing the symptoms and risk factors, together with the unique attributes that make it different from Alzheimer’s, is essential to obtaining a correct diagnosis […]
The Benefits of Fiber and How to Get More in a Senior’s Diet
If a senior loved one in your life is more inclined to indulge in the various junk and fast food choices which are so readily accessible, they are in excellent company. While these sorts of foods are convenient, they are usually full of calories, cholesterol and fat and lack fiber as well as other key […]
The Importance of Oral Health for Seniors with Alzheimer’s
It is among the first things we do each morning, as well as one of the last things we do each night, typically on autopilot without giving it an extra thought. Yet it happens to be a complicated process made up of numerous steps, making this seemingly easy task quite a challenge for someone with […]
How Home Care and Hospice Services Complement One Another
If you asked people who are within the last 6 months of their lives precisely what is most important to them, you are very likely to hear replies such as: Retaining control over which services will be provided To be pain free To receive spiritual and emotional support To remain at home In-home hospice care […]
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 […]
Why Healthy Eating for the Elderly Is Important
Remember family dinners at Grandma’s house? The tantalizing scents wafting out from the kitchen would draw everyone in to gather at the table to savor her home cooking. There was always an abundance of leftovers for future meals or late-night snacks. However, healthy eating for the elderly may be inconsistent. The day-to-day reality may be […]
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 […]