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 […]
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 […]
10 Holiday Activities for Seniors the Whole Family Can Enjoy Together
We can all relate to feeling overwhelmed by the whirlwind of necessary tasks that need to be taken care of during the holiday season: all of the shopping and wrapping gifts, writing and sending, planning and decorating, visiting and baking. But amid the hustle and bustle, it’s also easy to forget about the necessity of […]
How Senior Health Care Services Help Family Caregivers Let Go of Guilt
Most of us are juggling a number of balls at any given time, and for caregivers, it often feels like they’re juggling knives and flaming swords on top of it. It’s only natural to become overwhelmed and experience feelings of guilt when you’re responsible for the care of a loved one, whether that person is […]
New Hampshire Caregiver Reminder: Asking for Help Indicates Intelligence, Not Ineptitude
Pride in the fact that New Hampshire’s very own Levi Hutchins invented the first alarm clock 229 years ago doesn’t likely prevent you from occasionally wanting to go back in time and throttle him – especially after a fitful night of sleep that comes, or, rather, doesn’t come, after a long day of caring for […]
Family Caregivers: Do Not Forget To Take Time For Yourself
Doctor appointments that have to be scheduled; the constant physical and emotional care that mom or dad or your loved one needs; the endless errands to the grocery store, drug store, physical therapy sessions and, most of all, the need to know you are doing the “right thing” for that loved one you are providing […]