Transitional Home Health Care Services: Help with Returning Home After a Hospital Stay
Following a medical procedure or hospitalization, the words we look forward to hearing most are, “Here are your discharge papers – you’re free to return home now!” What a sense of relief there is in coming through the front door, sinking into a favorite chair, and relaxing. Yet there are often a number of tasks […]
Modification Tips to Create a Dementia-Friendly Home
The daily challenges of providing care for a loved one with Alzheimer’s are continuously changing. Today, the challenge may be frustration because of the inability to communicate effectively. Next week, it could be wandering and seeking to go “home.” There could be sleepless nights if sundowning is a factor, or aggressive actions and words which […]
Dangers of Dehydration in Seniors: Don’t Overlook This Health Risk
During the warmest time of the year, maintaining proper hydration is crucial, particularly for seniors. As a matter of fact, approximately 1/2 of all seniors are chronically under-hydrated, as documented in a newly released UCLA study, which can result in a variety of health risks, including kidney stones, urinary tract infection, as well as a […]
Summer Heat Safety Tips for Older Adults
The longer days of summer mean extra time for swimming, family cookouts, gardening, and all of those other wonderful seasonal pursuits. Yet it also means an increased risk for a variety of health concerns for senior citizens, who happen to be more susceptible to heat-related complications such as: Heat syncope (faintness/dizziness) Heat cramps Heat edema […]
Safe Driving Tips for Seniors
Do you remember that feeling as a teen when you first climbed behind the steering wheel, experiencing the excitement of being in a position to go anywhere you wanted? The freedom that having the ability to drive grants us is beyond compare! Nevertheless, as we grow older, a number of factors may come into play […]
Medications for Older Adults Can Lead to Negative Side Effects
Anyone who has taken prescription medications is aware that they usually come with an in-depth list of possible side effects to watch for. Although prescriptions are, of course, designed to help us, the problems that can result from these negative reactions can sometimes outweigh the benefits we receive. For seniors, nearly all of whom take […]
Safety in the House: Modification Tips to Keep Seniors Safe While Aging in Place
With the vast majority of older adults choosing to continue to live at home during aging, it’s important to perform a thorough home assessment to find and correct any dangers and make certain the seniors you love stay safe. The most effective way to accomplish this is to start outside of the home and work […]
Hearing Disability and Loss in Seniors: Signs, Causes, and How to Cope
Isolated. Misunderstood. Ignored. These are only a few of the many emotions which are common in those with hearing loss, who find it difficult to continue social connections with friends and loved ones, who struggle to communicate with them. For older adults, hearing loss is quite common, for many different reasons: genetics, a lifetime of […]
Traumatic Brain Injury Symptoms and Prevention for Older Adults
When you think of 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 even a head-on collision in a car accident – something less likely to affect seniors. Yet the prevalence of traumatic brain injuries in older adults is much […]
Understanding Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Older Adults
Feelings of exhaustion may seem as though they are a regular occurrence for a few us. The alarm goes off too early, the busyness of everyday life is exhausting, and by the end of the day, when we can once and for all sink into bed, it is often not easy to stop our thoughts […]