Most people start out thinking that all types of senior care are the same. This is a common misconception, and pretty early in your senior care search, you likely learned that this just isn’t true. Not only do certain types of care … [Read more...]
Helping to Reduce Infection Improves Lives
According to one estimate, catheter use is one of the most dangerous things when it comes to senior care regarding infection. Catheters and catheter use accounted for about 25 percent of all infections that occurred within a hospital … [Read more...]
Including Culture in Care
Have you ever wondered why nursing homes have gathering rooms, nicely manicured gardens, and plenty of activities planned throughout the days? Part of this is to make the home seem more attractive--both to residents and visitors--but that’s … [Read more...]
Protecting the Right to Care
Protecting the rights of senior citizens is something that we all hold very dearly. Seniors deserve to be treated fairly and live a life that is free from the fear of abuse of any sort. Unfortunately, because this is a vulnerable … [Read more...]
Who Will Pick Up the Burden of Care?
Making plans for the senior care of an elderly loved one is a tough, and sometimes thankless job. It’s one of those things that no one really wants to do. And honestly, that makes a lot of sense. Think about it for a moment: senior care is … [Read more...]
Self-Driving Cars and Senior Care
What do self driving cars have to do with senior care? At first glance, not very much. They address two very different needs in our communities, and one of them is still in the developmental stages. Add onto that the fact that a lot of … [Read more...]
The Problem of Retention
Today’s post is a little personal for me. Just be warned. My grandma is about to turn 93 and she’s been in an upstate New York nursing home for more than three years. I checked in on her last time I was able to a couple weeks ago, … [Read more...]
Long Term Care for Veterans
Someone once said that you can tell a lot about a society by looking at how they take care of those that cannot take care of themselves. This is a good thing to keep in mind when looking at senior care as a whole, but it is something that … [Read more...]
Funding Care is a Basic Moral Value
Ensuring that senior citizens have the proper amount of senior care is a basic value that most everyone can agree on. What this looks like in practice is where things start to get complicated. In the U.S., there is not much that is covered … [Read more...]
When is In-Home Care the Wrong Choice?
Sometimes, in-home care isn’t the perfect choice. In-home care does a lot of great things for seniors, and it can even improve the quality of life that many elderly folk experience, but that doesn’t always make it the best … [Read more...]
Rising Costs are a Concern
The cost of senior care continues to be one of the biggest points of concern for people as they go about the process of finding the right caregiver for their family. Unfortunately, costs seem to be going up frequently, and a lot of people … [Read more...]
Is Being a Family Caregiver Bad for You?
In the past, there has been a lot of speculation regarding the toll that being a family caregiver takes on someone. The consensus opinion was that because being a caregiver is stressful and because it can quite easily have a negative impact … [Read more...]