December 12, 2024

Care You Can Count On – Navigating Home Care During the Holidays

The holiday season is a time for joy, connection, and cherished traditions. However, for families relying on home care services, it can also bring unique challenges. Balancing busy schedules, travel plans, and caregiving needs can feel overwhelming. Ensuring reliable caregiver coverage is essential for maintaining routines, prioritizing safety, and enjoying the season with peace of mind.

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November 22, 2024

Caregiver Compensation – the Benefits of Doing it Right

When hiring care, some families might be tempted to pay under the table to save a few dollars or avoid the hassle of taxes. While this may seem like a straightforward solution, by not officially employing a caregiver, families forfeit the chance to provide essential benefits such as workers’ compensation, health insurance, and unemployment benefits.

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October 17, 2024

The Magic is in the Match!

When it comes to home care for elderly loved ones, finding the right caregiver is critical to ensuring quality care. While certain task-related abilities are important, the process isn’t just about checking off skills on a list. Yes, the caregiver must know how to handle things like physical care, transfers, medication reminders, or work with conditions like Parkinson’s disease, stroke, or dementia.

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September 11, 2024

Home Care at the End-of-Life

As families and caregivers, we sometimes find ourselves supporting our loved ones through one of life’s most profound transitions – its end. This is often both physically and emotionally taxing, and is a time when we need support, compassion, and respite.

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August 27, 2024

How to Talk to Aging Loved Ones About Hiring Care

One of the most common and frustrating issues family members of older loved ones face is their resistance to accepting care in the home. It is the epic battle between safety and autonomy, and every day, it plays out across America in different communities in different ways.

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August 26, 2024

How to choose a rollator

If the person you care for has generally good balance and needs just minimal support for getting around, a rollator (walker with wheels and brakes) might be preferable to a standard walker. Rollators enable a more normal, fluid stride. The features to consider start with size, weight, and foldability.

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August 19, 2024

Money tips for low vision

The ability to handle one’s own financial affairs is critical to adult independence. Low vision challenges this freedom.

Fortunately, most banks are prepared to assist clients, whether banking online or in person. Online, your loved one can adjust the bank’s website for large print.

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August 12, 2024

“I can’t get Dad to budge!”

Has your loved one ever flatly rejected your perfectly sensible solution to their problem?

Though your idea may seem like the obvious route to take, it’s not so simple when you’re caring for an older adult. Your relative has had a lifetime of making decisions on their own.

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August 5, 2024

Add a dose of laughter to your life

Don’t you just somehow feel better when you laugh? It turns out, that’s not just fantasy.

Laughter has physical and emotional health benefits.

Studies show that laughter can

  • support the heart. If we’re laughing, we’re not stressing. The stress hormones make chronic inflammation worse and threaten the heart.
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