Smart Lifestyle Moves for Working Adults
Every so often, people get the feeling that they need a lifestyle change. Sometimes they’re not sure exactly what to do, but still have a deep-down hankering to get busy and start rearranging their living More...
Who can benefit from occupational therapy?
Occupational therapy (OT) is a health focused profession that revolves around professionals helping individuals, groups or even communities through occupation. The therapy encourages people to participate, recover More...
7 Reasons Why Elderly Need Caregivers at Home
The elderly deserve all the love and care. Due to prevailing ailments and other aging factors, they become at risk for injuries and falls. While some seniors prefer to live alone, living alone can be quite risky More...
Importance of Elderly Care Services
Aging is part of life. Old age can bring new changes and challenges not only to the elderly but also to their respective families. It’s a sensitive phase in life; one that requires a lot of awareness and understanding. More...
Reasons for Choosing Home Care for the Elderly
When our elderly loved ones can no longer do daily tasks on their own due to certain medical or cognitive conditions, it’s time to consider our options. Most elderly opt for home care services rather than be put More...
Tips For Caregivers Caring For the Elderly
Caregiving is not just a job. It is a career, a passion. With the demand for caregivers continually rising over the years, it has become more and more important that caregivers stay dedicated to their chosen career. If More...
Caring for a Patient with Anosognosia
You could be forgiven for never having heard of the term Anosognosia but it is something which has been well known within the sphere of medicine and science for many years. In fact, there have been studies into More...
Advantages of Using a Home Care Agency
For most Americans, meeting the daily demands of work, home, kids, and caring for the elderly people who may be ill, disabled, or aging can be overwhelming. Often, the very task of providing care by the family caregiver More...
Lighting Considerations for the Elderly
As people grow older, they experience a general deterioration of the body and its functions. Their movement is slower and they may be prone to aches occasioned by age-related ailments like arthritis. Most importantly, More...
How to Care for Elderly Parents
Aging parents can bring a mixture of totally different emotions from person to person. Some feel that their parents are coping well with age and can be amazed at how well they deal with the inevitabilities of life. More...
Seeking support when you’re a live-in caregiver
According to the Better at home report, a live in carer allows an individual or couple to stay within the comfort of their own home giving one to one, high quality 24/7 support from a carer who lives with them. More...
Belgian law will increase euthansia, targeting Catholic to force doctors, health workers ‘to kill’ their patients
The lower Chamber of the Belgian federal Parliament has approved several measures in favor of increased access to euthanasia, which has been legal in the country since 2002. On Thursday, a large majority of Chamber More...
An Empowered Approach to Caring for a Loved One in a Nursing Home
When a loved one is being cared for in a nursing home facility, you don’t have direct control over their daily activities and it’s difficult to know if they’re being treated appropriately. Unfortunately, nursing More...
Clearwater man Falo Kane arrested for sexually assaulting seniors in nursing facilities, one was disabled by a stroke
Clearwater police in Florida have arrested Falo Kane for sexual assaulting senior citizens in a health facility, one woman being disabled by a stroke. Kane, 32, was arrested after police investigated incidents during More...
Dignity in Dying promotes assisted suicide as the alternative to a ‘bad death’
In Scotland, euthanasia groups are working to convince lawmakers to legalize assisted suicide, attempting to scare people in a new report, “The Inescapable Truth,” along with a video, which claims that 17 More...
Gov Kate Brown signs Oregon euthanasia bill, ends waiting period
Oregon Governor Kate Brown agreed to expand the assisted suicide law by signing Bill SB 0579 into law. This bill, essentially, eliminates the 15 day waiting period to die by assisted suicide, a safeguard that was More...
Phone Provider, Donald Dodt Found Guilty for $11 Million International Telemarketing Scheme
An Ohio man was found guilty late yesterday for his role in a $7 million telemarketing scheme that defrauded primarily elderly victims in the United States from call centers in Costa Rica. Assistant Attorney General More...
New York Man, Rudolph Carryl Pleads Guilty to Securities Fraud, Defrauding Retired Victims
U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced today that Rudolph Carryl, 67, formerly of Oyster Bay, N.Y., appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge David C. Keesler late Friday, March 15, 2019, and pleaded guilty to securities More...
Buffalo Man, Todd Laraba Indicted for Violent Home Invasion of an Elderly Couple
U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Todd Laraba, 41, of Buffalo, NY, with Hobbs Act robbery and conspiracy, and marijuana conspiracy. More...
Nursing Home Neglect and Abuse: Problems that Aren’t Going Away
With so many organizations working to raise awareness about nursing home neglect and abuse, it comes as a shock to many people that it continues to happen in nursing homes far away and close to home, including four More...
