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Nutrition for Los Angeles Home Care Patients

In our younger years eating healthy may not have been our top priority. As we get older the nutritional benefits of balanced diet are much more important. As the old saying goes “you get better with age”, so must your diet. This is especially true for patient receiving home care services. The great part is…

Difficult Discussions In Home Care and Life

By: Sherry Netherland, Director of Special Projects for Assisted Healthcare Services Crisis is too often the driving force in healthcare decisions and it shouldn’t be. When we are enjoying good health we don’t think about it. Unfortunately, for many of us, the first time we think about our health is when it fails us and…

Caregiver and Home Care Tax Deductions

Well it is that time of year again when we get to tally up all our dues. Yep, we are talking about tax time. For all of us who are caregivers and incur home care costs for a loved one, you may be able to deduct the expenses on your taxes. PLEASE NOTE: to qualify…

Increased Flu Season Effects Los Angeles Home Care Services

With over 3,857,799 people in Los Angeles it easy to see why it is the second largest city in the United States. Los Angeles’s elderly population that are 65 and older is close to 405,068. This means roughly 10.5% of people in Los Angeles will at some point need help. For many that help will…

Top 5 Things you Need to Know About a Nursing Career

(Original Post: http://www.thequarterroll.com/Job-Fair/nursing-job-fair.htm#NURSE) 1. Attending Nursing School Career in nursing will put you in a professional medical position. That means you can expect the classes in nursing school to be tougher than most. Many of the classes will be scientific and medical in nature: Biology, Chemistry, Anatomy, and Physiology are examples. The first step in…

The Value of Hospice Care in a Nursing Home.

By: Tracey Mayleben-Shoop, Transitional Care Program Director for Assisted Home Care and Hospice Hospice is comprehensive care for patients with terminal illnesses. The focus of Hospice is to provide compassionate end of life care through a team of hospice professionals, when the patient has 6 months or less to live. Hospice Care is covered thru…

7 Caregiver Resolutions: A 2014 To-Do List

Original post:(http://www.aplaceformom.com/blog/caregiver-resolutions-for-new-year-01112013/) By: Jeff Anderson New Year’s resolutions are profoundly personal and intensely optimistic. They require us to candidly appraise ourselves and our lives, and to recognize areas of weakness and aspects of ourselves that need improvement. After all, we can’t fix a problem that we don’t recognize. Resolutions also require us to believe in…

Home Care: Laughter Is The Best Medicine

By: Sherry Netherland, Director of Special Projects for Assisted Healthcare Services Our good health is a marriage of our physical fitness and our emotional well-being. There is something funny about laughter (pun intended). We are all born with the ability to laugh, and it would seem, the need to laugh. Laughter can catch us off…

Hiring Someone to Help With Home Care

(Original posting:www.aarp.org/home-family/caregiving/info-08-2012/hiring-at-home-caregiver.html by: Carol Levine, from: AARP, August 20, 2012 Most questions about family caregiving can’t be answered with a simple yes or no. But the question of whether home care agencies are all alike is one of the few that can. And the answer is a definite no. Here’s some information you’ll need if…

Senior Care: 3 Elderly Winter Weather Tips

The winter months can prove to be a bit challenging. With an abundance of winter holidays, kids out of school, and the flu season the logistics can be a bit nightmarish. So it is easy to see how the seniors in our lives may not be on the top of our mind. Although, our parents…