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Mobility challenges can be frustrating for your senior and scary for you. Helping your elderly family member to be safe in her own home does a lot for her, including enabling her to age in place for as long as she might want to do so. Put Safety Plans in Place for Stairs If there are stairs inside...

Halloween can be a lot of fun, but for caregivers to older family members with dementia, it may require some changes. While Halloween offers spooky fun for most people, seniors with dementia may not find it so enjoyable. That’s because dementia changes the way they see and understand the world. As...

There are two ways to approach aging. Your parents can embrace their changing abilities or let it get them down. Instead of letting it get them down, they should celebrate these times of their lives. Here are seven reasons why they should embrace their age. You Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff As you...

Your mom struggles to do all of the housework. Joint pain makes it hard for her to hold cleaning tools like dusters and scrub brushes. You’ve heard that caregivers can help with light housekeeping. What does that mean? Are there housekeeping tasks that Elder Home Care don’t cover? The Common...

You might be going back and forth with yourself about whether you need or want extra help as a caregiver. Some of these situations might help you to decide that you are definitely at that point. You Keep Feeling Like You’re Not Doing Enough It’s fairly common as a caregiver to feel like you could...

Many elderly people have to take medications. Some even have to take a number of prescription medications in order to improve their quality of life. However, keeping track of all their medications and understanding the side-effects of each one can be overwhelming. This is why it is so important...

Finding your senior’s clutter hot spots can help you to keep her entire home clear and as safe as possible. Clutter has a tendency to multiply, and that’s what you want to avoid if you can. Stairways People often get in the habit of leaving things on the stairs that need to go to another floor....

Are you considering Home Care for your elderly loved one? If you are thinking of getting, Home Care providers to care for your elderly loved one, there are many things that you might want to know. You might be wondering whether these providers can help with dementia and other health conditions....

When you notice memory lapses in an aging parent, it can be frightening and lead you to wonder if they might have dementia. For some people, the idea can be so disconcerting that they may choose to ignore signs of dementia, denying that it could be happening. Yet, in the back of their mind, the...

Food scarcity is a concern and reached just over 12 percent in July 2020. States like California and Florida were among the top states where people were having a hard time affording food. While the pandemic plays a big part in this, people with fixed incomes or who are living on Social Security...