Choosing the best senior housing for you
Choosing senior housing is a very important decision. It is not just a decision you make to choose where you want to live, but also to live a life that you want to live. By making the right choice, you will be able 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...
Medical Negligence in the UK: From Victim to Victor
Medical negligence – also known as clinical negligence – is where a patient takes a medical practitioner to court in order to claim compensation after suffering harm due to negligence on the part of the doctor 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 a Live-in Carer Can Help Fight Elderly Isolation
According to Age UK, there are some 2 million over 75s who live alone in the UK, including more than a million who regularly report no contact with family or friends. Loneliness among older people is now something More...
How To Help Your Elderly Parents Move
Our parents are everything, and it feels great to see them happy and healthy all the time. However, as they grow older, it becomes gradually hard for them to depend on themselves in doing most activities fully. 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...
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...
6 Tips To Help You Reduce Your Belongings In Preparation For Care
Going into care is a significant life change which requires a lot of planning. Here are some tips to help you reduce your belongings in preparation for care. photo/ StockSnap Going into care is a significant life More...
74-year-old woman Erramatti Mangayamma gave birth to twins using in vitro, dad is 80 years old
A 74-year-old woman Erramatti Mangayamma has given birth to twins with her 80-year-old husband, using in vitro fertilization (IVF) technology. according to Dr. Sanakayyala Umashankar, the director of Ahalya IVF. “The 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...
Maryland euthanasia bill stalls in state Senate as legislators are divided over assisted suicide
Maryland’s assisted suicide bill for allowing terminally-ill patients in Maryland to take their own lives fell one vote short on Wednesday in the Maryland Senate, stalling the legislation for now. Under the More...
Caring for an Elderly Father: Senior Community or Home Care?
With your parents getting old, it becomes your responsibility to take proper care of them, not necessarily because of the obligation of them being your parents but because you know you love them as they love you. More...
