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Summer Confinement - Senior Care

No one enjoys spending a bright, beautiful summer day indoors, yet seniors and the elderly recuperating from hospital admissions, surgeries, or outpatient procedures may find themselves bedridden or confined to one room.  Being bedridden can be difficult to adjust to – being confined or homebound can lead to a multitude of medical and psychiatric illnesses....

EXCEPTIONAL, AFFORDABLE MILITARY CARE

June is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) month. PTSD is a mental health condition particularly prevalent among military personnel due to the unique and highly stressful nature of their work. In the military, individuals may be exposed to a range of traumatic events, such as combat, witnessing death or injury, being under threat, experiencing explosions, and...

Summer Confinement - Senior Care

No one enjoys spending a bright, beautiful summer day indoors, yet seniors and the elderly recuperating from hospital admissions, surgeries, or outpatient procedures may find themselves bedridden or confined to one room. Being bedridden can be difficult to adjust to – being confined or homebound can lead to a multitude of medical and mental illnesses....

Senior Care Tulsa - Resentment

Seniors and the elderly, particularly those being cared for by others often resent the person caring for them, the family surrounding the caregiver and themselves. Guilt, defined as “the fact of having committed a specific or implied offense or crime” is linked to resentment along with self-deprivation. When an adult can no longer make decisions...

Blogging - Oklahoma Caregivers

WHY WRITE A BLOG Most caregivers will tell you they don’t have time to blog, or don’t know what to blog about.  They will tell you they’re to emotional about their situation, or to involved or to angry or simply unhappy with who they’ve become. Blogging is the process of sharing these feelings with others...

A Patient's Resolution - In-home Senior Care Tulsa

As a caregiver you observe your patient performing the few tasks they remain capable of on a daily basis. For the immobile or bedridden these tasks may be few and engulfed in reams of disappointment and frustration. Despite the imperfect activity or inactivity observed, unless a chronic mental illness prevents it, these patients too make...

Tulsa Senior Care - A Willing Spirit

Soon the trees will be ablaze in yellows, reds and gold. Leaves will bury once green grass and mums and pumpkins will adorn grocery store entrances. Summer is ending, school has started and cooler weather is a draw for the young and the not so young. Seniors and children sense the changing seasons more so...

Senior Care - Heat Stress

The weather has changed and although homes, offices and businesses are air conditioned, heat and humidity continue to affect our senior and elderly population. Heat stress, heat fatigue and hypothermia can cause nausea, muscle spasms, headaches and cold symptoms (sneezing, coughing and wheezing).  Heat stroke and symptoms related to hyperthermia can lead to serious unrelated...

Senior Care - Isolation

Sitting mom or dad in front of the television can have the same effect as plopping a two-year-old in front of the cartoon channel. A whole aspect of a child’s development and a senior’s health depends on socialization and interaction. Many caregivers feel they are doing the right thing by keeping mom and dad at...