Tips for Ensuring Success with Your Home Care Aide
Once your family has made the decision to hire a home health aide, there are several steps you can take to ensure it is a successful experience for both the care recipient and the extended [...]
What is a Home Health Aide?
Because many families only begin looking into home health care when the need is immediate, they find themselves discussing potential home care solutions for their aging parents or spouse using terms they may not fully [...]
Tips for Communicating with Seniors who Have Alzheimer’s
According to the Alzheimer's Association, an estimated 6.7 million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer's dementia, a figure that equates to nearly 11% of the U.S. population over the age of 65. More than 11 [...]
What is a Nurse Registry?
Families often ask us to explain the difference between a nurse registry and a home health agency. This is a particularly common question from clients who split their time between Florida and other states, as [...]
Tips for Healthier Senior Nutrition
Whether it’s a New Year’s resolution or following a specific health scare, there are many reasons we promise ourselves to eat better going forward. For seniors who may be dealing with or trying to stave [...]
Coping with Seasonal Affective Disorder in Seniors
The holidays are supposed to be “the most wonderful time of the year”. But according to Mental Health America, the number of Americans age 65 and older suffering from some form of depression spikes each [...]
Tips for Family Caregivers
In the United States, approximately 80% of care for the elderly is performed by family members, including spouses and adult children. One out of every four household provides some form of senior home health care, [...]
Everything You Need to Know About Skilled Home Care
It’s easy for individuals or families exploring senior home health care to get lost in the jargon. In particular, understanding the difference between “skilled” home health services and “unskilled” or “private duty” home care can [...]
Best Practices in Non-Emergency Senior Planning
Too often, adult sons and daughters scrambling to respond to a sudden change in an aging parent’s health – be it a fall, an unexpected hospital admission, or a mental health episode – wish they [...]
What is Respite Care?
When beginning to care for an aging parent, many adult children believe they can do it all. They may recently be empty nesters or recent retirees themselves, and feel they can throw themselves into caregiving [...]
