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Seniors Receive Valuable Resources at Home Helpers & Senior Fair 2024

August 21st was National Senior Citizens Day, and I want to publicly recognize and honor the beloved senior citizens in Kankakee and surrounding areas! After all, senior citizens have lived through challenging times we’ve only read or heard about through stories passed down or historical news reports. They have endured changes that today’s generation cannot...

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10 Actions for Seniors to Promote Healthy Aging and Wellness

I opened Home Helpers in 2008 to serve seniors in the Kankakee area. One of the most important aspects of managing a home care agency is ensuring our senior clients are on a positive health and wellness journey as they age. The National Institute on Aging (NIA) says, “Many factors influence healthy aging. Some of...

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4 Ways to Help Seniors While Promoting Senior Independence

I know a family who did everything they could to keep their Mom/Grandma with chronic healthissues at her home, but at times, they brought her to their homes in their attempt to honor herwishes to never be admitted to a skilled nursing or assisted living facility. However, the familymembers realized this was not a permanent...

A smiling elderly man sits outside in a wheelchair, looking up at a younger woman who stands beside him with her hand on his shoulder. They are both smiling and surrounded by greenery.

Home Helpers Bourbonnais Delivers Specialized Parkinson’s Care and Respite for Family Caregivers

A few weeks ago, a Home Helpers caregiver was providing respite care for a family caregiver to a senior gentleman with Parkinson’s disease (PD). The family caregiver is the man’s oldest daughter, and she has two children: a young man who is a senior in high school preparing to graduate and go to college, and...

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13 Tips for Improving Senior Men’s Health in Illinois

Father’s Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June each year so it stands to reason that Junewould be recognized as Men’s Health Awareness Month. This awareness theme is very important because men are notorious for minimizing their healthas a priority, even though that’s ill-advised. Health in Aging says, “Experts agree that by taking...

Home Helpers Bourbonnais Delivers Specialized Parkinson’s Care and Respite for Family Caregivers

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Crucial Colon Cancer Screenings Detect and Prevent Colorectal Cancer in Illinois

Many of my caregivers at Home Helpers have had opportunities to help aging adults and seniors who were battling some form of cancer. Some clients were undergoing cancer treatments, while others in advanced stages were managing the symptoms and pain of their disease as comfortably as possible while approaching their end of life. It’s never...

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Understanding High Blood Pressure and Strategies of Prevention and Control

Many of our clients at Home Helpers have been diagnosed with hypertension, or high blood pressure (HBP). In fact, as many as 30 percent of adults in Illinois have received the same diagnosis ranking our state as 10th in the nation for the lowest percentage of cases, according to America’s Health Rankings published by United...

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How Seniors Can Choose the Best Bath Remodeling Contractors for Needs, Budgets & Safety

Now and then, I hear about a rogue contractor who has scammed a senior out of lots of money without providing the services for which the senior has paid. It’s terrible that this happens to anyone, but it is especially troubling and sad when it happens to a vulnerable senior. Last year, one of our...

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