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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 ......

Grandparents Day: An Opportunity to Savor the Moment

Every day is an opportunity to call home and talk to Mom, Dad, Grandma or Grandpa—but today, you get a little extra encouragement: Sunday, September 13 is National Grandparents Day ! Celebrated each year on the first Sunday of September after Labor Day, Grandparents Day is ......

How Families Are Fighting the Caregiving Dilemma

At Home Helpers, we meet families every day who are struggling to care for aging loved ones. These daughters, sons and spouses describe how they can’t enjoy their family relationships anymore because their caregiving duties are overwhelming them. This loss of choice and ......

15 Caregiver Books to Read Right Now

When we find ourselves in a new and challenging situation, many of us turn to the experiences of others for guidance. Or at least we should—shouldering a responsibility like caregiving solo can be a lonely and sometimes impossible journey. A good book can help me find the ......