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Alzheimer’s Home Care
Alzheimer's Home Care & Prevention Alzheimer's care and prevention is a serious concern to everyone, especially with senior loved ones. There is interesting new research that links champagne consumption with prevention of alzheimer's and dementia. Many will care for...
Providing In Home Care Tips
Tips for Providing In Home Care Are you providing in home care yourself? Here are some tips to help lower your stress level. Wake up 15 minutes earlier to make your morning less hectic. Bonus: leave your home 15 minutes earlier for work, appointments and events. Don’t...
Keeping Your Loved Ones Warm Through the Winter
Keeping Your Loved Ones Warm Through the Winter As the weather gets cooler, it’s a brisk reminder to make sure that seniors living on their own at home are safe and protected this winter. Even if they have arranged home health care, there are still measures you should...
Home Health Care: Visiting Your Parents
Home Health Care: Visiting Parents If you have aging parents who don't live in the same city as you do, it can be a constant worry. Setting up the appropriate level of in home health care is certainly critical. If you plan to visit your parents in their home over the...
In Home Care – Dementia
In Home Care - Dementia Here are ten tips that can help one who is providing in home care for a loved one with dementia. Adapt your environment to be as non-distracting as possible. Your loved one with dementia may constantly have television on in the background (if...
Aging in Place – Design Ideas That Lend Themselves to In Home Care Down The Road
In Home Care Designs Did you know that National Aging-in-Place week is during this month (October 13-19)? With over 85% of aging Americans wanting to remain in their own homes as they age (according to AARP), Aging in Place has become more and more critical. The Aging...
Hearing Aid Facts
Hearing Aid Facts “Sorry, can you say that again?” Many find themselves repeatedly asking this question as their hearing abilities begin to fade. Estimates are that 1 out of every 5 Americans experience some sort of hearing loss. Instead of struggling to keep up with...
Nestle pushes further into medicine with planned Alzheimer’s test
Nestle Pushes into Medicine Nestle pushes into medicine with the announcement that they are investing in a new Alzheimer's disease diagnostic test. Learn more at STLToday.com.
Hoarding: Elderly OCD?
Elderly Hoarding We all have parents or relatives who struggle to part with what we think is useless junk. It might be a dull-looking party favor your mother never looks at, but when you pull it out to toss it in a trash bag, she tells you a whole story of a summer...
Early Alzheimer’s Story
Alzheimer's: Early Onset Typically Alzheimer's affects people later in life. However, an estimated 200,000 Americans suffer from the younger-onset version in their 50s, 40s, and occasionally 30s. This is a heartbreaking, yet beautiful story of one family's journey...