Choosing the right type of senior care service for an aging loved one requires a thorough understanding your options. In-home healthcare can involve either a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) or a Home Health Aide (HHA), each offering different levels of medical assistance. Both CNAs and HHAs provide essential healthcare, such as changing soiled sheets and assisting with bathing, dressing, and…
Moving an elderly loved one into a nursing home is often a caregiver’s last resort. Nursing homes have a negative reputation, and seniors urge family members to avoid placing them in one. When their wishes are unfulfilled and seniors enter nursing homes, families are fraught with feelings of guilt. What are the reasons for nursing home placement? Nursing home placement…
Alzheimer’s takes a disproportionate toll on women, according to a report released from the Alzheimer’s Association. The report, as noted in USA Today, found that women are far more likely to develop the fatal disease than men: one in six women over 65 will get it during their lifetime, compared with one in 11 men. And, not surprisingly, women are…
Is your mother okay? Here are 4 tips to make sure you understand her physical and mental condition when you are together: Watch Your Mother. How is she walking? Is she moving slower than the last time you saw her? How does she look? Is she clean and groomed? We don’t mean that she has to be dressed like June…
Aging is a normal part of life. Yet, growing old can carry lingering fears for many seniors. A gradual decline in health, loss of independence and facing the inability to manage one’s activities of daily living are all reasonable qualms experienced by people as they advance into their golden years. Seniors beset with worries like these are likely to refuse…
Visit any family caregiver website and you will find an abundance of statistics proving that family caregivers are not alone, that care giving is difficult, and that if caregivers follow their general suggestions, “Make time for yourself,” you will be OK. Family caregivers average 21 hours per week providing care to needful loved ones and as time passes, additional hours…
Did you know that overuse of antibiotics can interfere with treatment of certain heath conditions Antibiotics have played a critical role in treating a variety of diseases. But new research has found that overuse of antibiotics is creating a rise in drug-resistant infections, especially in nursing homes where urinary tract infections (UTI) are an ongoing problem. The issue is…
Your eyesight might not be what it used to be or the dinners that you once made without needing the recipe are harder to remember. As people age, their needs become a little greater, even with things that they once took for granted. But it is very important, especially as we age, that we be aware of what we are…
By Richard Ueberfluss More than 50 percent of women and 25 percent of men over fifty will suffer from an osteoporosis-related fracture. Osteoporosis occurs when bone breaks down faster than it is replenished, leaving the skeleton porous and brittle. Women lose bone density more rapidly during menopause, so they are more susceptible to osteoporosis than men. Multiple medications, poor vision…
