Knowing what is covered for you and your family when it comes to elder care costs is important. It’s also important to look at what is not covered by your current health and other supplemental types of insurance. This preparedness seems … [Read more...]
When In-Home Care isn’t Right
Here at the Paradise In-Home Care blog, I often mention the great benefits that using in-home care can bring families. I'm a firm believer that this is usually the best type of senior care for an elderly individual, but I'm also careful to … [Read more...]
The Harsh Reality of Caring for a Loved One
Many people discover that their “academic” knowledge of elder care is lacking quite a bit when it comes to an actual application of care. Knowing what to do in theory is not the same as being able to do it in practice. Not only does this … [Read more...]
Finding Financial Assistance for Senior Care
If you are like many others in our country, the cost of caring for an elderly loved one is a huge burden. In some instances, this burden isn’t a big one at first, but as the months and the years go by, it becomes a crushing one. Not only … [Read more...]
Senior Care Costs Drive Decisions
Even though it shouldn’t be, cost is often one of the most important factors when it comes to determining the type of senior care that your elderly loved one receives. The cost of senior care is an important factor, but it is not the most … [Read more...]
Rules to Simplify Senior Care
If there is one thing that is heard repeated often in the senior care industry it is that the process of finding help for a struggling parent is way too complicated. It shouldn’t be this way, but for many people it really is. This happens … [Read more...]
Alleviating the Worry of Senior Care
The hardest part of finding senior care for many families is trust. It can be difficult to ask someone else to help you care for a family member, especially if you’ve never met them before. Many people are uncomfortable with this, and as a … [Read more...]
Senior Care at Work
According to the Families and Work Institute, more than 40 percent of us care for an aging family member. This is a huge amount of Americans and it takes up a lot of our time, but the good news is that employers are taking notice of this. … [Read more...]
Lowering Costs with In-Home Care
Many senior safety issues cannot be solved in practical manners. There are always helpful tips out there on the web for you to consider, and a lot of them are very good. For example, keep salt handy so that walking outside in colder … [Read more...]
Personal Reflection on In-Home Care
A recent experience made me think twice about in-home care. My grandmother, who is in her late 80s, had been receiving in-home care when she was injured and ended up needing surgery to repair a broken leg. She was in the hospital for a … [Read more...]