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Your Home Health Care Aide: Establishing A Positive Relationship

(view original post:http://www.caregiver.com) You’ve made the decision to let an aide come into your home to assist. That was hard enough. Now you re getting apprehensive about what to expect when the aide arrives for work. If you don’t have experience with in-home assistance, all sorts of “worst case scenarios” are whirling about in your…

Caring for a Parent: How a Home Care Agency Can Help Balance Your Life

    Caring for elderly or dependent parents can be a very daunting task for anyone to do on their own. Many times loved ones will need continuous hours of care. As healthcare concerns increase so will the time for treatments and other needs. We all want to be there to spend the time helping…

Elderly Exercise: 7 Exercises for an Aging Body

Exercise is not a four letter word… its eight and no that does not mean it’s twice as bad. Exercise is good for you, but that is not really a mystery. What may be a bit of mystery is how essential it is for the elderly to exercise. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

How to Gradually Introduce In-Home Care

Original Source: www.caregivers.com/in-home-care/gradually-introduce-in-home-care/ By Ann Napoletan For the past year or so, you’ve noticed your loved one slipping, but to avoid making waves, you’ve tried to keep your concerns to yourself. Now, you’re seeing obvious signs that the problem is worsening. The kitchen that used to be spotless is piled high with dirty dishes. There’s…

The Medicare Hospice Benefit

By: Sherry Netherland, Director of Special Projects for Assisted Healthcare Services Hospice care is more than the care of the terminally ill. At Assisted, Hospice care is not about dying, but in fact, it is about helping the patient live a quality life for as long as possible. Our main focus is quality care so…

8 Tips to Find a Great Home Care Agency

Finding a good home care agency can be a daunting task. The nurses, therapists, caregivers, doctors, and other staff will be the people that are in your home taking care of your loved ones. That is why it is a vitally important to identify a trustworthy, compassionate, and knowledgeable home care company. Home Care Tip…

Put a Spring In Your Step

By: Sherry Netherland, Director of Special Projects for Assisted Healthcare Services More hours of daylight make spring the perfect time for lifestyle changes – particularly increasing your activity levels.  When I was a kid, it meant being able to go outside and play after school. As an adult it means being able to go for…

Caregiver Stress – Five Helpful Tips To Keep it at Bay

By: Sherry Netherland, Director of Special Projects for Assisted Healthcare Services Former First Lady, Roslyn Carter, said, “There are four kinds of people in the world – those who have been caregivers, those who currently are caregivers, those will be caregivers, and those who will need caregivers.”   Caring for a loved one who becomes…

Stay Fit at the Office – Turn Your Desk Into a Fitness Center

By: Sherry Netherland, Director of Special Projects for Assisted Healthcare Services “I don’t have time to exercise!” That’s why I don’t like to call fitness Exercise. The “E” word may turn you off, but being sedentary should be what scares you. A sedentary lifestyle will shorten your life, a fitness lifestyle will lengthen it. You…

A Fitness Program for Watching Television

By: Sherry Netherland, Director of Special Projects for Assisted Healthcare Services How many of us have been lured into purchasing a fitness device with the sales pitch, “You can do it while watching television!”? How many of us are now watching it collect dust while we are watching television, or, worse, not seeing it at…