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How Family Members Can Help Seniors After Surgery

If your senior loved one has recently had a surgery and is now at home, you may be wondering how you can support their recovery. Post-hospital care for seniors who are recovering at home is something that is strongly recommended after they come home from having surgery. There are some things that only skilled medical...

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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 woman sitting up in bed is being fed a spoonful of food by another woman. The woman in bed has a bowl in her hand, and a blood glucose meter is on the bedside table. Both appear calm and focused.

Why Is it Important to Reduce Hospital Readmissions?

Leaving the hospital is a great feeling for your senior, but to hear that she has to go back soon after she gets home can be the worst news ever. That’s called hospital readmission, and it’s something that can be avoided, especially with the help of post-hospital care. There are a variety of reasons that...

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Five Ways to Know Home Care Is Right for Your Senior’s Goals

Is home care truly right for your elderly family member’s current and future goals? There are plenty of ways to help you to determine if that’s the case. The key is to look at what your elderly family member would benefit most from. Talking with her about what she wants from this stage of her...

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5 Ways Home Care Assistance Is Helpful After Your Senior Has Been Hospitalized

It’s sometimes really scary to be in the hospital, for any reason. But it can be equally frightening to your senior to come home, particularly if she lives alone. Home care assistance is a great way for your senior to have the help that she needs and to also recover in her own home around...

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5 Tips to Help Your Senior to Deal with Alopecia

July is Women with Alopecia Month, which could make this an ideal time to talk with your elderly family member about how alopecia may be impacting her life. Estimates put over 50 percent of women at risk of developing alopecia, or excessive hair loss, as they age. If that’s something that your elderly family member...

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Best Ways to Encourage and Help Your Elderly Loved One

You are thinking about all the ways you can help your elderly loved one and you have ended up right here. The truth is that many family members are concerned about their elderly loved ones. They think they are lonely, stressed, frustrated, and possibly going to be unhealthy, too. These things could be true. However,...

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What Is Personal Care at Home?

Is your elderly family member planning to remain in her own home for as long as possible? That’s called aging in place and eventually she may find that it’s a lot easier to do if she has the right help in place at the right time. Some of the biggest tasks she may need to...

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Ease Your Senior’s Loneliness With Companion Care

Around 28% of older adults live alone. Around half of the American women over the age of 74 live alone. It’s not surprising that your mom is on her own as she nears her 80th birthday. What’s important now is to make sure she’s not lonely. Studies have linked loneliness and isolation to several chronic...

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