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Tips on Long Distance Care

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05.16.16

Tips for Long Distance Senior Care

Caring for far away loved ones can be quite the challenge. If you live far away from someone that you care about and they need constant attention, then check out some of these helpful long distance senior care tips. It is always important to understand how your loved one may feel about being cared for from a distance. The most crucial thing you can do is put yourself in their shoes and take into account how they feel about the situation. Your life will be affected, but theirs will be affected even more than yours. Always keep this in mind, even when caring from someone close by. These things are not always easy to deal with and it is important to remember what matters most to you and your loved one: being there for each other and loving one another.

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Alzheimer’s and Dementia: The Facts

Posted by Scott Cantin in Alzheimer's Disease, caregiving, caregiving tips, Dementia, depression, elderly care, home care, mental health, Senior Health | 0 comments

05.10.16

Understanding the Difference – Alzheimer’s & Dementia

Alzheimer’s is a degenerative disease of the brain. It is the leading cause of dementia, which is a term for a group of symptoms including memory loss, impaired judgment, loss of language, and reduced motor skills. There is currently no known cure for Alzheimer’s disease.

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Time Management and You

Posted by Scott Cantin in Alzheimer's Disease, caregiver stress, caregiving, caregiving tips, depression, home care, mental health, Senior Health | 0 comments

05.02.16

When our brains age, it may become tougher to remember things that you easily used to remember. To prevent this, there are many different things you can do to both strengthen your memory and improve your time management skills. Check out our previous post that focused on improving your mental health from a couple of weeks ago for some tips on how to keep your memory sharp. This week’s post focuses on time management and what you can do to improve it while bettering yourself.

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Strength and Weight Training for Seniors

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04.11.16

This week, we will be focusing on weight training safety and techniques that are good for seniors. Some seniors, especially the ones that have been exercising consistently for a long period of time, may want to consider doing as much weight training as possible. Weight training is a great way to keep your muscles working and your blood flowing. Not only can it help your muscles, but it can also help your balance and coordination, so you can prevent a fall before it happens. Mixing weight training with cardio every week is a great way to balance out your routine. 

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Basic Safety Tips for the Active Senior

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03.28.16

This week’s focus is staying safe while exercising. The first thing any senior citizen should do before exercising is to check with their doctor to see if he or she is healthy and fit enough to work out without getting hurt. Some people may have certain limitations that prevent them from being mobile in a safe manner. Your doctor will know for sure whether or not you can put the strain on your body that comes with even the simplest of exercises.

 

Exercising is considered by most professionals to be the best thing an elder can do to delay some of the side effects that come with aging. If it is done correctly and in a safe way, it can even add up to two or three years onto your lifespan. On top of improving overall general health, regular exercise can help lower your blood pressure and cholesterol, prevent diabetes, depression, anxiety, and insomnia, as well as certain cancers. Balance and strength can also improve, lowering your risk for an accidental fall.

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Benefits of Elderly Home Care

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Male-Caregiver-wheelchairIt’s never easy when the time comes to consider either a care home or an elderly home care service to look after seniors, though it’s an inevitable part of life that most will have to go through eventually. However, over the course of time it has become apparent that the latter of the two offers a unique package of benefits that the care home simply cannot.



So for anyone looking to make the decision as to whether or not in home senior care fits the bill, consider the following benefits as a rough guideline:

One to One Care
Competent as it may be, never forget that in any given care home there may be dozens of other residents which are at all times under the supervision of a much smaller number of workers. This makes genuine one on one care extremely difficult at the best of times whereas in the case of in home senior care, all care offered is one to one with no other residents around.

Privacy
And speaking of other residents, it can be hugely traumatic for any senior of any age to give up the privacy of their own home and move to another facility with so many other people around. Privacy is of crucial importance to both physical and mental health, which is why elderly home care represents the superior choice once again.

Familiar Environment
Next up, the familiarity of the home where the person or persons in question have lived for years can also make an enormous difference to their health and well being. It’s impossible to truly recreate the genuine home environment in a nursing home and thus for those with the best interests of their loved ones in mind, the home care service is the better option without question.

Family Visits
And finally, care homes the world over will almost always have their own set visiting hours and times when family and friends are not able to come. By contrast, the home care system allows for 100% freedom of choice in terms of who visits, when they visit and for how long – again of crucial importance for both health and happiness.

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