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Practical Advice for When You Can't Be There

5 helpful tips for those of you in long-distance caregiving situations. Jean writes: “ Your column has been very useful in helping us talk to my mother-in-law when we visit, but she lives half a continent away and is in her 70s. How can we tell if she needs help between ......

How to Help Your Elderly Parent Organize their Home

A well-organized household makes life easier for elderly parents who want to live independently at home. Isn’t it amazing how much stress can be removed from your daily life when your home or workspace is neat and clean? I’ve found I can’t get my best work done until my area ......

When Cupid Takes Aim at Older Hearts

“This woman is running my dad’s entire life!” “It’s like my mother needs his permission to see her own family!” “How do we know this isn’t just some sort of con artist?” Those are few of the openers we’ve heard from family members concerned when their elderly parents start ......

30 Life Questions You Need to Ask Your Grandparents

After thinking about it and putting it off for years, Leo finally decided to make that interview video with his grandmother. Born in 1929, the year the stock market crashed and the clouds of the Great Depression gathered, she would live through that economic crisis, life ......

Honoring the Best: The Exceptional Caregiver Awards

2015 Exception Caregiver 1st annual Home Helpers Exception Caregiver Awards. Celebrating the extraordinary people who make life easier for families across the country. When family caregivers realize they need help taking care of Mom or Dad, many fear that a nursing home or ......

How In-Home Care Helps Aging Veterans

In serving older adults across the country, we often help those who have served in the military. Many members of my family have served, so it is a great honor to be able to say that we help these elderly veterans every day. There are quite a few members of the Home Helpers ......

Local Home Helpers Home Care Agency Owners Make Lives Easier

We continue to ask ourselves, ‘What would we want for our parents or ourselves when it comes to care?’ This is the driving influence in how we run our home care agency.” —Mike Doepke, co-owner, Home Helpers of Hinsdale, Illinois October 16 is Boss’s Day. It’s not a widely ......

Home Helpers is Expanding Internationally as “Caring Hearts”

Home Helpers Home Care is now expanding internationally under the name Caring Hearts. Caring Hearts, available only outside the USA, is taking the tremendous senior home care franchise offering of Home Helpers Home Care to markets worldwide. Caring Hearts offers the same ......

A Labor Day Salute to Family and Professional Caregivers

In honor of the recent Labor Day weekend, I’d like to salute two groups of people who are central to what we do here at Home Helpers. The first group is our staff of professional caregivers. Those whose job is helping families know what a hard day’s work feels like. They ......