Delivery has been a great option for years. Whether you’re running short on time or you just don’t feel like cooking dinner, having a pizza or another meal brought right to your home is an easy timesaver. Amazon changed life … [Read more...]
Why Isolation Continues Among Seniors
Isolation became one of the biggest issues to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, it was a necessity to stay healthy through the hardest parts of the virus, especially when no one fully understood the extent to which it … [Read more...]
Why We Need to Think Differently About Senior Care
The traditional model of senior care has been shaken up ever since the COVID-19 pandemic. It isn’t a surprise. The pandemic has changed how we think about a lot of things, why should senior care be any different? A … [Read more...]
Exercise Now Might Help Reduce Pain Later
People that are more active tend to have lesser rates of chronic pain than those that are more sedentary, according to a group of researchers. A team from the Arctic University of Norway looked at people who were physically … [Read more...]
The Reality of Family Caregiving
A new study indicates that women are shouldering a lot more of the load when it comes to family caregiving than men are. There are a number of reasons why this happens. Some of it has to do with cultural norms in the U.S. Even … [Read more...]
Combating Ageism in the Care Industry
A recent NPR article talks about ageism and how it is a lot more common than the average person might think. Even within the world of senior care. Unfortunately, this article has some truth to it. Ageism is pretty common in our … [Read more...]
How Senior Care Can Fight Isolation
According to some estimates, about 25 percent of those individuals over the age of 65 in the US live in some sort of isolation. Isolation looks differently for different people. Your older loved ones (and yourself, for that … [Read more...]
Some Benefits of In-Home Care
In-home care is remarkably simple in what it does. It brings the professional caregiver to the person in need, essentially allowing them to live their life the way that they have been with added supports in place to make this a little bit … [Read more...]
Helping Seniors with Disabilities Connect to Care
Seniors with disabilities often face a shortage of services that can have a negative impact on the quality of life that they experience. There’s a big disconnect for some parts of the country when it comes to connecting people … [Read more...]
Things to Think About When Looking at Assisted Living
There are a lot of different kinds of senior care out there. Here at Paradise In-Home Care, we place an emphasis on in-home care (as our name implies), but this isn’t the only thing that we do here. In fact, we try to offer a comprehensive … [Read more...]
Alternatives to Medication Management for Chronic Pain
Chronic pain is a serious concern for millions of Americans. In the past, treating ongoing pain symptoms with medication was one of the most common approaches. However, time and experience has shown us that certain medications can be even … [Read more...]
Changing Populations Means Changing Needs
It is estimated that there will be 77 million people aged 65 or older by the year 2034 if current trends continue. The latest demographic data indicates that there were 52 million people in this age range in 2018. That’s an increase of 25 … [Read more...]