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What Can Home Care Do to Help You as a Busy Caregiver?

How often do you find that you feel you have to keep doing it all as your senior’s family caregiver? Probably a lot more often than you’re comfortable admitting. The reality is that is not a situation that you can keep up with forever, so it might be time to consider home care services. But...

A healthcare worker in blue scrubs checks the blood pressure of a smiling older woman wearing glasses and an orange sweater. They are indoors, and both appear happy and engaged.

What Can Your Senior Do to Improve Blood Pressure?

It can be so frustrating to try to do all the right things to address high blood pressure and still come up short. If that’s what your elderly family member is facing, she may need some extra help from home care assistance to make the big changes easier on her. But remind her that even...

An elderly person wearing a white robe has fallen on a bathroom floor, with one hand on the ground and legs outstretched. A walker, slippers, and a fallen tube are nearby.

Why Do Aging Adults Fall?

Lots of people experience falls for no reason at all, and that can be the case for your senior, too. But the odds are that if she does experience a fall there is a reason for that to have happened. When you understand the main reasons that older adults experience a fall, you can plan...

A young female nurse in a light uniform smiles while assisting and comforting an elderly woman in a hospital gown who is sitting up and holding onto a walker. Bright, softly lit room in the background.

What Can Your Senior Expect After a Heart Attack?

It’s terrifying to know that your elderly family member has had a heart attack. But it can be even scarier to worry about what happens next. Setting her up for the best possible recovery often means taking stock of what she needs and putting a solid plan together for her to heal. Here are just...

An elderly woman sits alone at a wooden table, looking down at a bowl of soup. Raindrops are visible on the window in front of her, creating a somber, reflective mood.

Six Situations that Keep Your Senior from Eating

There are a lot of different challenges that can keep your senior from eating when she should. Understanding those challenges gets you closer to putting answers together that can turn that situation around for your elderly family member. Oral Health Issues Problems with your senior’s teeth or mouth can make eating impossible for her. If...

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Glaucoma and Your Senior

Most people have heard of glaucoma, but might not be sure exactly what it is. The most common forms of glaucoma cause extreme pressure within your senior’s eye that cause irreparable damage. Getting a diagnosis of glaucoma isn’t necessarily a guarantee that your elderly family member will completely lose her vision, but it’s a possibility...

Two women in a kitchen prepare vegetables together. One is chopping carrots while the other, with short gray hair, smiles and watches. Fresh produce like peppers, tomatoes, and cabbage are spread on the counter.

5 Ways to Plan Healthier Meals for Your Senior

Is your senior’s diet as healthy as it could be? Truth be told, everyone could make a few changes here and there to eat healthier. But for your senior, some of those changes, even small ones, can feel like a lot more work on her part. Here are some ideas you can use to help...

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When Is it Dangerous for Your Senior to Age in Place Alone?

No matter how long your senior family member has lived in her home, there may come a time when it really does become dangerous for her to remain there by herself. That’s a conversation that your senior may not be excited about having, but it’s one that you do need to address and preferably sooner...

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Five Easy Tips for Helping Your Senior with Clothing Challenges

Getting dressed every day may be something that your elderly family member finds more difficult every day. The challenges are very real and can range from difficulty manipulating closures to cognitive changes that leave your senior forgetting that she needs to bathe and get dressed. When you’re helping your elderly family member manage these issues,...

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