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Tips for Choosing Foods to Serve Your Senior with Alzheimer's Disease

Nutrition is an important part of everyone’s life, and that includes people who are suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Though there is no one specific diet or eating approach that is prescribed for people with this disease, doctors recommend that family caregivers help their adult choose foods that are nutritious and will give their bodies what...

Walking and COPD: How This One Exercise Can Help Your Loved One

If your loved one has been diagnosed with COPD, you probably also know that exercise can help. Depending on your loved one’s current health, walking can be an excellent choice. Why Try Walking? Walking is an incredibly easy form of exercise to start out with. Your senior parent already walks, even if she’s only doing so to...

Can Plants Really Clean the Air?

Indoor air pollution can be surprisingly impactful on our health and wellness because gasses and particles are breathed in and can trigger respiratory problems. Seniors are particularly susceptible to air pollutants, which can magnify existing health complications like asthma and allergies. The primary caregiver for an elderly loved one should consider ways to boost air...

What You Should Know about National Migraine and Headache Awareness Month

One of the most important tools that you can have as a family caregiver for your elderly loved one is awareness. This is all about understanding the issues and risks that your aging parent faces so that you can give them the care that they need to either reduce or eliminate these risks or issues,...

Are You Physically Capable of Handling Your Loved One's Care?

Home Care in Duluth GA Making the decision to become a family caregiver for your elderly loved one is not something that you should take lightly. No matter how dedicated you are to making sure that your aging parent gets the level of care that they need, you must determine if you truly have the...

August 1-7 is Simplify Your Life Week

Caregivers in Woodstock GA For many family caregivers, being busy is the norm. With a long list of responsibilities and tasks each day and many family members counting on you, it is easy to fill up all of the hours of the day and even the late hours of the night. Unfortunately, staying very busy...

How Exercise Can Help Your Parent with Parkinson's Disease

Home Care in Woodstock GA If you are a caregiver for one of the approximately one million people throughout the United States who is currently living with Parkinson’s disease, it is likely that you are always looking for ways to improve your aging parent’s quality of life. While there are many things that you can...

How Safe Is Your Loved One’s Kitchen?

Home Care in Sandy Springs GA When your loved one wants to stay independent, it’s important to make sure that she’s safe. One room in which your loved one could have trouble is the kitchen. Go through your loved one’s kitchen a few times a year to keep up with any changes that could affect...

Elderly Care Recipes: Fun Homemade Fortune Cookies

Elderly Care in Buford GA Making your own versions of your favorite takeout food at home is a fantastic way to enjoy the flavors of food you love while saving money and ensuring that you are only using ingredients that you choose, eliminating the mystery of the takeout restaurant and controlling the nutrition of each...