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Doctors have recently found that there is a new method that may help them to detect the presence of heart disease in an individual. And while this method is new to this type of diagnosis, it isn’t precisely new. Optical coherence tomography … [Read more...]
What is the price of peace of mind? Can you even put a price tag on something like that? When it comes to the future, peace of mind is an abstract and hard to define term. Even if you have a good idea of what your loved one’s … [Read more...]
Social distancing policies were put in place early on in the COVID-19 pandemic. They were meant to help slow the spread of the virus and prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed with too many patients at a time. And it worked. There are … [Read more...]
One of the topics that I have written about frequently over the last few months is how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed many of the shortcomings in the senior care system. These issues have been there for years, but the strain of the … [Read more...]
Medicine always has new ground to cover. There are always more efficient and safer ways of treating illness and disease that can be discovered. And sometimes, medical researchers find that an existing medication might have more than one … [Read more...]
The COVID-19 pandemic will have a lasting impact on what senior care looks like in the future. Just what that will look like remains to be seen. But there’s a good chance that in-home care is going to become far more popular and accessible … [Read more...]
About two-thirds of the elderly individuals in our country that experience depression do not seek any sort of treatment for it. That’s information revealed in a recent survey by the GeneSight Mental Health Monitor. And although this is a … [Read more...]
Oftentimes, we view nursing homes and care facilities in a negative light. This perception isn’t wholly accurate, but it is justified. Even though senior care facilities do really good work, they are often unprepared for certain scenarios. … [Read more...]
On a surface level, the Catholic faith and the Vatican has very little to do with senior care. But if you think about what religious faith means for how we live our lives, it suddenly makes a lot more sense that the Pope has weighed in on … [Read more...]
Many seniors prefer to stay home rather than move into a nursing home or assisted living facility. This was true before the COVID-19 pandemic, but the pandemic has pushed this idea into the spotlight. With nursing homes and care facilities … [Read more...]
We use the term long term care often on this website. Long term care is the catch-all phrase that covers many different aspects of senior care. Nursing homes, assisted living facilities, hospitals, in-home care, and more all fit into this … [Read more...]
How can we better evaluate senior care services and make more accurate decisions regarding the selection of a service? This is one of the more frequently asked questions that we hear, especially from families that are just not … [Read more...]
