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Caregiving is a Personal Thing

In-home care will never be a one-size-fits-all program. It’s personal. When you first start to consider in-home care for a member of your family, you probably have a lot of questions. Your loved one probably does, too. We have discussed several times the family dynamics of ......

Challenges of Senior Nutrition Change with Time

I can’t get my mother to eat enough. It’s not uncommon for us to hear this or something similar when a family first comes to Home Helpers. The importance of proper nutrition is perhaps more important as we age than at any other time in our adult lives. Here in the United ......

Because You Have a Choice

Our locally owned and operated Home Helpers offices are evaluated by a number of outside agencies depending on the states in which they operate and the level of care their clients require. The training and preparation we invest in our caregivers is just one of the factors ......

How to Pack Your Caregiver Ready Bag

Home Helpers caregivers recommend you keep crucial items in your own caregiver ready bag, just in case you need to head to the hospital or a doctor’s office without notice. Last week, we offered some suggestions for creating a Ready Bag in case your older loved one needs to ......

A Powerful Way to Say "Thank You" on Veterans Day

On Veterans Day, many Americans have difficulty finding the best way to thank a veteran, but simply being a friend to a veteran may be the best strategy. If you just go by the advertising you see, you might get the impression that Veterans Day is all about discounts on fall ......

How to Avoid Sibling Caregiver Conflict

Our relationships with our siblings are among the most complicated, conflicting and certainly the longest of our lives. Caregiving Can Put Stress on Sibling Relationships Depending on our personalities and age differences, our brothers and sisters are at times our mentors, ......

What’s In Your Senior Care Ready Bag?

We’ve talked and written quite a bit about the isolation and stress of day-to-day caregiving. But other significant stressors are unexpected. And for elderly people, unfortunately, those sudden interruptions sometimes include a trip to the hospital. Going to the hospital is ......

Improving Family Dynamics by Acknowledging Caregiver Personas

When you first start taking care of an aging parent or loved one it can, we know from experience, be an unnerving, even scary process. 5 Overarching Caregiver Personality Types Our research on caregiver isolation and family dynamics has yielded some insights on how the ......

Top 12 Fall Prevention Tips from Professional Caregivers

Slips, trips, and stumbles can be more serious as we grow older or when our recuperative powers are compromised by some medical condition. That’s why many of our friends and colleagues in the caring professions are joining together to promote National Falls Prevention ......