Category Archives: Personal Care Tips
5 Benefits of In-Home Care
In-home care is a helpful solution when independent living becomes too difficult for an aging parent. Although your loved one’s mental and physical abilities may have begun to show signs of decline, he or she may be resistant to go into an...
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Bringing the Calm Back into Caregiving
Caregiving doesn’t seem to have a lot of room in it for calm, but there is far more possibility for that than you might realize. A lot of the solution involves changing your approach to the emotional aspects of caregiving. When you can change how...
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Four Ways to Recognize Depression in Seniors
Your elderly family member may be battling depression at any point in her life. There are misconceptions that depression always has to have a specific reason or cause. While there are causes, your senior may not be able to point to a cause herself....
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Tips for Sharing the Responsibilities of Caring for an Elderly Parent
“Sharing is caring,” as the saying goes, and sometimes that is exactly what can make the responsibilities of providing care for a loved one less stressful and overwhelming. [caption id="attachment_1764" align="alignright" width="300"] In-Home...
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Can You Avoid Setting Your Senior Off?
If your elderly family member tends to go off on an angry tangent more often than not, that takes a toll on you and makes caregiving infinitely more difficult. Try these ideas to see if you can find a way to avoid sending her into that sort of...
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How to Lower Stress Levels if You’re a Long-distance Caregiver
Being a caregiver is stressful enough, but if you can’t be there with your senior on a daily basis you might find that you’re experiencing a lot more stress than you bargained for in the beginning. There are some steps you can take that can...
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