Alzheimer’s disease can be a very difficult thing for a family to grapple with. On one hand, you want your loved one to be safe and healthy no matter what is going on. On the other, you want them to try and preserve their independence for … [Read more...]
Long Term Care for the Long Haul
The thought of long term care can be overwhelming for some people because it can seem like it completely overwhelms your life. Looking at an elderly family member and thinking about their list of needs and health concerns, and then all of … [Read more...]
Be Aware of Long Term Care Options
When it comes to senior care, you have a large number of options. In fact, if you really were to make a list of care options, you would find that there are more than a dozen types of senior care, and that each of those has a lot of overlap … [Read more...]
Can Olive Oil Help Prevent Heart Attacks?
New research shows that the combination of olive oil and good sleep have a number of health benefits, including the prevention of heart attacks and strokes. This study from St. Michael’s Hospital was recently published in Nature … [Read more...]
A Few Ways to Cut the Costs of Senior Care
The cost of senior care is fairly well documented. According to some accounts, caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease can cost families around nod $60,000 per year. Some of this cost is covered by insurance, but much of it is not. This … [Read more...]
Medicaid Pros and Cons
When a loved one moves into a nursing home, Medicaid (or Medi-Cal here in California) is one of the most often used methods of payments. Medicaid has benefits because it helps those with limited income to pay for medical treatments when … [Read more...]
Beginning the Search for Long Term Care
Long term care is the catchall term used to describe the type of care needed when close supervision and assistance with daily living tasks is needed by someone for more than 30 days at a time. According to current statistics, of those that … [Read more...]
Augmented Reality Helps Alleviate Pain in Some Cases
Phantom limb pain is an extremely difficult thing to treat, as anyone who has ever experienced this can relate to. Although not physically there, a phantom limb can be quite painful, so much so that those experiencing it have a severe … [Read more...]
Is Long Term Care the Right Choice?
Long term care is a common term that is often used interchangeably with senior care, but these are not the same things. In many instances, the preferred and necessary type of senior care that an elderly individual is given is long term … [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...]
Long Term Care Insurance Declining
Despite all of the attention that the aging of the United States population has received, the amount of interest that people have in long term care insurance is rapidly decreasing. A few years ago, as the trend of the growing senior … [Read more...]
Dealing with Senior Incontinence
Incontinence is a delicate subject in the senior community, and as a result of this, it’s become something that is laughed at in commercials, made light of, or otherwise brushed off. However, the reality of it all is nothing like this. … [Read more...]