What Kinds of Notes Should You Keep about Your Senior’s Dementia?
Keeping a log book or journal about your senior’s dementia can help you to meet her needs more readily. It’s much easier to keep track of symptoms that she’s had for a while as well as new ones as soon as they show up. Your dementia log...
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What Qualifies as Self-care?
Self-care is one of the more important things you can take care of as a caregiver. You have to make sure that you’re doing what you need to do for yourself so that you can do anything at all for the other people in your life. [caption...
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What Can Your Senior Eat if She Needs to Stick with...
If your elderly family member is in need of soft food ideas, you both might have gotten a little bit frustrated trying to think of different ideas that are also interesting. These options might help a bit. [caption id="attachment_1435"...
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Four Tips for Reducing COPD Exacerbations
When your elderly family member is experiencing worse symptoms than usual with her COPD, that’s called an exacerbation. An exacerbation can be the warning right before a lung infection takes hold. If your senior is prone to flare-ups, you can take...
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How Can You Let Go of the Urge to Go it...
If you’ve spent the majority of your life depending on yourself, caregiving can be really difficult for you. One reason for this is that you might lean toward “lone soldier syndrome,” which means you're trying to do it all by yourself. You...
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Four Ways a Home Care Services Provider Makes Life Easier for...
You probably have some solid ideas about how home care makes your life easier, but your senior family member can be a tougher sell. It can help to have an idea about how some of the ways they can help your senior can also make her more comfortable...
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