Archive for the ‘HomeCare’

  • Senior Health: Is Hospice Care Right For You or a Loved One?
    Hospice Care By Jan Shapan : There will likely come a time in your life that either yourself or a loved one will be forced to deal with a terminal illness. The first response, of course, is to fight it and try to fix the problem. And we should pursue all avenues of healing. However, intuitively there comes a time when the quality of life becomes more important ...
    April 27th, 2010 at 11:04 pm
  • Retirement Communities: Critical Questions You Should Ask Before You Buy
    Purchasing A Home in A Retirement Community By Karl Edmunds :: Too many seniors regret rushing into their first purchase in a retirement community. Some retirement communities are staffed with highly effective sales people whose stated objective is to get a decision or financial deposit quickly, if not on the first visit. And they know just the buttons to push to achieve ...
    March 13th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
  • When is In Home Health Care Necessary? Be Prepared to Make the Right Decisions
    Senior Home Health by Diane Carbo :: In home care for your aging parents can decrease stress and give you peace of mind. Providing care for the elderly in the home also can be very stressful and sometimes have disastrous results. That is why choosing the right in home health care agency is important. Many individuals are surprised to find that Medicare does not cover ...
    March 3rd, 2010 at 09:03 am
  • Dementia Is Not Mental Illness
    Dementia CareAs a caregiver of people with dementia, I just hate to hear people applying the language of psychiatry to dementia. It simply serves to create barriers to relationship and understanding. It doesn’t help at all. Instead it encourages family members, who may well not understand the differences, to think of their Mom or Dad or Grandpa as being mentally ...
    March 3rd, 2010 at 01:03 am
  • Power Lift Chairs and Medicare for Seniors – What You Need to Know
    Powerlift Chairs for Seniors by Chris A West :: Did you know that millions of Americans suffer from limited mobility? Simple everyday tasks become incredibly difficult: lifting items, walking up the stairs, even getting up out of a chair can become an exhausting task. For those people, power lift chairs are a godsend. However, power liftchairs aren’t cheap – ...
    March 3rd, 2010 at 01:03 am
  • Talking With Elderly Parents – 5 Ways to Open the Lines of Communication
    Senior Care Caring for your elderly parents can be a challenging task. As the body gets older, it falls victim to a number of health problems, which can be difficult for us to cope with. Seniors often become depressed and upset over small things because their bodies are unable to keep up with their minds. Other seniors will have mental health problems, which takes its ...
    March 3rd, 2010 at 01:03 am
  • Elder Care – Talking Books – Free Entertainment You May Have Missed
    Talking Books for Seniors by Esther E. Hansen :: An often overlooked way to enjoy the advantages of reading is to make use of Talking Books. The pleasure my mother drew from them is something I remember as a happy segment of my own caregiving days. Prior to the advent of talking books in our home we had both enjoyed listening to read-aloud times on a radio station. The ...
    March 3rd, 2010 at 01:03 am
  • How in Home Care For Seniors Keeps Health Care Costs Down
    In home care for Seniors by Davis Barrett :: Finance has become a big issue in the recent recession period. People are looking for cost-cutting methods in order to manage funds. Many corporate houses have asked people to resign from jobs and have also slashed the salary of the existing employees. The recession did not cause just financial crunch in the business world, ...
    March 3rd, 2010 at 12:03 am
  • Home Care For Seniors – 10 Tips For Family Care Givers
    Home Care for Seniorsby Joan Van De Moortel :: More than 50 million people provide home care for a senior, chronically ill, or disabled family member or friend during any given year. According to the National Family Caregivers Association, 25 % of all U.S. households are already involved in care giving. Caregiving is no longer predominantly a women’s issue. Men ...
    March 3rd, 2010 at 12:03 am
  • New Hybrid Long Term Care Insurance Programs are Better Solutions for Seniors
    Long Term Care Insurance :: by Julian Lind :: As Baby Boomers get older, healthcare becomes more of an issue. Today, a growing number of people have been thrust in the position of caring for aging seniors or loved ones. If you are fifty-five years or older, chances are you have considered some sort of Long Term Care (LTC) insurance. With approximately 30% of people ...
    February 22nd, 2010 at 05:02 pm
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