Caregiving Can Be Stressful. Try These Calming Techniques from Live Free Home Health Care!
Caregiving and stress frequently go hand in hand. Devoting your life to fulfilling the needs of an older family member can be daunting, particularly when a serious health concern is at play, leaving family caregivers with fewer opportunities to meet their own needs and for fulfilling and relaxing activities. However, it’s actually very important for […]
Senior Care and Sibling Rivalry: How to Manage Difficult Family Dynamics
When looking back over the years spent with your sisters and brothers, you can probably recollect a plethora of wonderful memories: holidays spent with each other, childhood games you enjoyed, key events like graduations, birthdays, and weddings. However, if we’re honest, there are also many hurts that occurred that are inclined to stay with us […]
An All-Too-Common Emotion in Senior Care: Caregiver Guilt
Guilt: it’s one thing every caregiver can relate to. No matter how much hard work we dedicate to caring for a senior loved one, somehow it never seems to be quite enough, leaving us feeling as though we could have done more, shown more compassion, been more patient. And if we don’t effectively handle the […]
A Laugh A Day Keeps Caregiving Stress Away!
Life often hands us “one of those days” – you’ve slept through the alarm and missed an important appointment, the coffee maker chose today to quit working, you tripped over the shoes left beside the bed, dropping your phone and smashing the display screen, and to top it all off, you feel a cold coming […]
Eliminate Senior Falls with These Exercises
Fall prevention: it’s one of the lead aspects of healthy aging, given that senior falls are one of the top reasons for major injury and even loss of life in older adults. At Live Free Home Health Care, we work tirelessly to ensure the home environment is free of fall dangers and that necessary alterations […]
Live Free’s Room by Room Tips for Senior Fall Prevention
If your elderly loved one is one of the 90% of adults over age 65 who decides to remain at home throughout aging, there are various considerations to assure the senior’s comfort, independence, and most importantly, safety. It’s a popular assumption that if the older adult stays at home, specifically if she’s lived there for […]
Try These COPD Exercises to Improve Breathing
With all the breathing issues associated with COPD, the last thing a person with the disease may feel like doing is exercising and risking becoming even more breathless. However, exercise is important for all of us, including individuals with COPD, to preserve the best possible health. In fact, there are several recent studies that report […]
Live Free Home Health Care Shares the Facts You Need to Know About COPD
As many as 11 million men and women in the United States alone are presently diagnosed with COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), and we at Live Free Home Health Care fully understand the complexities and complications associated with the airflow restrictions – and as a result, the lifestyle restrictions – that seniors with the disease […]
Enjoy These Top Summer Activities for Seniors
While kids certainly look forward to summer break and all of the fun it involves, summertime doesn’t have to lose its excitement as we age! New Hampton, NH caregivers at Live Free Home Health Care, providing the highest quality in home health care New Hampton offers. We love helping older adults enjoy life to the […]
Top Strategies for Helping Seniors Safely Enjoy the Lazy, Hazy Days of Summer
What’s not to love about love the warmer, longer, leisurely days of the summer season? With family get-togethers and festivities such as graduations, weddings, holiday gatherings, and more, many seniors are more active through the summer season. And since it’s easy for older adults to rapidly become overheated, it’s crucial to know how to recognize […]