Assisted | In Home Care Blog

2012-09-24

Laugh and Live Longer

By: Sherry Netherland, Director of Special Projects for Assisted Healthcare Services Did you know that laughing can add years to your life? A 2010 study published in Psychological Science reported that people who smile live longer. There are many physiological benefits of laughter – Increased circulation caused by an increase in pulse rate and respiration (increasing…

2012-09-06

Hospice – A Service and a Philosophy

By: Sherry Netherland, Director of Special Projects for Assisted Healthcare Services Hospice is both a service and a philosophy. Hospice embraces that quality of life is much more important than quantity and emphasizes caring rather than curing. The primary goal of hospice care is to provide comprehensive care to the terminally ill and their families,…

2012-07-19

I Hear Fine, Everybody Mumbles: Hearing Loss in Seniors

By: Sherry Netherland, Director of Special Projects for Assisted Healthcare Services I started my professional healthcare career as an audiologist. Statistics on aging will report that only 50% of seniors over age 65 have hearing loss. Well, those 50% of seniors were my patients, so essentially, 100% of the people over 65 who came to…

2012-06-28

The Medicare Home Health Benefit

By: Sherry Netherland, Director of Special Projects for Assisted Healthcare Services There has been a growing awareness in our country that long hospital stays are a thing of the past. In the 50’s, my mother was in the hospital for two weeks when she had her children by C-section, now it’s a three day stay. …

2012-06-15

Fitness is the Fountain of Youth

By: Sherry Netherland, Director of Special Projects for Assisted Healthcare Services I have worked with seniors and their healthcare issues for a long time. The best advice I can give you is don’t grow old. Don’t get me wrong, I am not advising you against aging, unless, of course, you have figured out how to…

2012-06-01

Having a Partnership with Your Doctor

By: Sherry Netherland, Director of Special Projects for Assisted Healthcare Services My father hated doctors. My father believed that just going to the doctor made you sick. For him, it was out of sight out of mind. He was of the “walk it off” school of healthcare. I have no memory of him going to…

2012-05-15

Diabetes

By: Sherry Netherland, Director of Special Projects for Assisted Healthcare Services According to data from the 2011 National Diabetes Fact Sheet, 25.8 million children and adults in the United States have diabetes. That’s 8.3% of the population. Research on diabetics reveals the prevalence of the disease is weighted differently amongst various ethnic groups, with the…

2012-05-01

New to Having a Caregiver? Assisted Has 5 Simple Suggestions

By: Sherry Netherland, Director of Special Projects for Assisted Healthcare Services For many of us, having people assist us who are not friends or family can be a new experience. All too often we must adapt to having strangers in our home, or the home of a loved one, during a time of crisis –…

2012-04-13

Aging in Place – Plan, Plan, Plan

By: Sherry Netherland, Director of Special Projects for Assisted Healthcare Services As you have read in other blog posts, I am a big advocate of planning ahead. I can’t repeat that enough times. Plan ahead. One more for good measure – PLAN AHEAD. We are all aging. Even though 50 is the new 30, according…

2012-03-30

Top Tips for Maintaining Brain Power

By: Sherry Netherland, Director of Special Projects for Assisted Healthcare Services AEROBIC ACTIVITY SUCH AS WALKING, RUNNING, SWIMMING, BICYCLE RIDING In a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, men in the 71-93 year old age group who walked less than a quarter-mile per day were almost two times as likely…

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