Home Health Aides Provide Transitional Care After a Hospital Stay
Following a surgical procedure or hospital stay, the words we look forward to hearing most are, “Here are your discharge papers – you’re able to head home now!” What a feeling of relief there is in entering the front door, sinking into a favorite chair, and unwinding. Nonetheless, there are often quite a few tasks […]
Safety at Home for Older Adults: Tips to Create a Dementia-Friendly Home
The day-to-day worries of providing care for someone you love with Alzheimer’s are continually evolving. Today, the challenge may be frustration because of the lack of ability to communicate effectively. Next week, it may be wandering and wanting to go “home.” There could be sleepless nights if sundowning is a factor, or aggressive actions and […]
Signs & Symptoms of Dehydration in Seniors
During the warmest time of year, maintaining correct hydration is essential, especially for seniors. As a matter of fact, nearly 1/2 of all seniors are chronically under-hydrated, as outlined by a newly released UCLA research study, which could bring on multiple health risks, such as kidney stones, urinary tract infection, and in some cases a […]
Beat the Heat: Summer Safety Tips for Seniors
The longer days of summer mean more time for swimming, family cookouts, gardening, and all of those other wonderful seasonal outdoor activities. However, it also means an elevated risk for a variety of health concerns for older adults, who are more prone to heat-related issues such as: Heat syncope (faintness/dizziness) Heat cramps Heat edema (swelling) […]
Safety Tips for Senior Drivers
Remember that feeling as a teenager when you first climbed behind the steering wheel, experiencing the exhilaration of being in a position to go wherever you wanted? The freedom that being able to drive grants us is beyond compare! Nevertheless, once we grow older, multiple factors can come into play that affect our ability to […]
Aging in Place: Home Modification Tips to Keep Seniors Safe
With the great majority of seniors deciding to continue to live at home during aging, it’s crucial to carry out an extensive home assessment to search for and correct any hazards and ensure the seniors you love remain secure and safe. The easiest way to make this happen is to begin outside the home and […]
Traumatic Brain Injuries in the Elderly Are a Growing Concern
When you think about a traumatic brain injury (TBI), your first thought may be a sports-related accident, such as a football player crashing head-first into a rival, or perhaps a head-on collision in an auto accident – something less likely to affect seniors. Even so, the prevalence of traumatic brain injuries in the elderly is […]
Senior Safety Tips to Reduce Fall Risks in the Bathroom
While you might consider your bathroom to be a safe place where you can relax and unwind with a soothing bath or invigorating shower following a challenging day, for aging parents, the bathroom is probably the most dangerous room in the home. With slippery floors which can be even slipperier when wet, closed-in spaces, and […]
Traveling with a Senior Loved One? These Holiday Travel Tips for Older Adults Can Help!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – for family get-togethers! With many families separated by geographic distance, or simply as a consequence of the busyness of life, all of us look forward to the chance to reconnect with those we love over the holiday season. And for aging parents, the chance to spend […]
Common Scams Against Older Adults
We’re all bombarded with those annoying robocalls and unwanted telemarketer solicitations, and though it may seem simple enough to prevent falling prey to a scammer, it is honestly quite easy to get pulled in to what seems to be a plausible scenario – particularly for older adults. In fact, an astounding $36 billion is scammed […]