Living alone comes with a whole host of dangers for seniors–especially if they are dealing with physical or cognitive disabilities. It’s estimated that more than 26 million people that are age 50 or older live by themselves in … [Read more...]
What Happens When a Care Facility Closes?
Very recently, a Pennsylvania-based senior care facility announced that it would be closing. This raises a lot of questions, the biggest of which is: what happens to the people that were being assisted by this … [Read more...]
Ensuring Your Loved One Has High Quality Senior Living Conditions
If you’ve paid attention to senior care in the news over the last few months, there’s no doubt that you’ve heard a few horror stories. If you or a loved one are currently looking for senior care to help make things better, stories like … [Read more...]
A Spotlight on Medication Misuse
Medication misuse comes in two different forms: accidental and intentional. Both can be incredibly dangerous. If you take medication, or have a loved one that does, understanding what this is and how to spot it can be very … [Read more...]
Minority Access to Elder Care
All across the country, care services are severely understaffed. As you’ve probably experienced, this creates a lot of inconvenience for those of us that are used to the routines we established before the pandemic began. But … [Read more...]
Religion and Senior Care
Many parts of the world are facing a shortage when it comes to religious care. This goes for both the attention of religious organizations that people attended before needing senior care and for those individuals that work within religion … [Read more...]
Care and Paying for Care are Different
Finding the right care for an elderly loved one, and then paying for that care are two totally different things. One of the big questions that senior care experts like to ask people when they are early on in their search addresses this … [Read more...]
How Many Care Options are There?
According to one senior care website, there are at least 11 different types of care available to you. Some of these care options are not very realistic for most people (such as moving in with family in a different country), but some of them … [Read more...]
Is Elder Mediation Right?
Elder mediation might sound like a scary, expensive, and needless process, but many families might be able to benefit from this process when they find that they are at a disagreement when it comes to the care of an older loved one. … [Read more...]
Quality Care is Needed Everywhere
We are very lucky here in the San Francisco Bay Area because we have a wide variety of senior care options available to us. We have in-home care, obviously as that’s one of the services that we provide here at Paradise In-Home Care, but … [Read more...]
The Difference Between Getting By and Thriving in Senior Care
It’s safe to say that each of our families is different. We all have our unique routines, activities, interests. Many families even have their own kind of inside language or way of speaking. These might be inside family jokes, phrases, or … [Read more...]
High Quality Care is a Cornerstone of Senior Health
Senior care has been a delicate topic over the last several decades. Some individuals believe that this should be something that should be left completely to families, while others believe that the government should play a more decisive … [Read more...]