Medical Alert Resources

Four Signs To Gauge Your Loved Ones’ Health After The Holidays

The Holidays are behind us. It’s time to take a breath, and look forward to the new year. As a caregiver, not only do you think about your health, but also the health of your loved one for whose care you are responsible. As is often the case, the holiday season takes a toll on […]

Making A Decision To Commit To Home Medical Alert Technology

As a caregiver you’ve seen your parents’ health fade a little bit every year. It could be something as simple as being more forgetful, or stumbling when she walks or maybe your father is dealing with an illness or one or both of them are recovering from a hospital stay. They’re determined to remain in […]

What Are Shingles?

If you ask your physician he will explain that shingles is a disease related to chicken pox and individuals that had chicken pox at some point in their lives are more prone to developing a case of shingles. The virus that causes chicken pox is also responsible for shingles. In many individuals, the virus for […]

Successful Aging In Place Strategies

Aging is an inevitable fact of life. With aging comes the realization that we may be faced at some point with the inability to live independently. Whether making a move to an assisted living facility or moving into the home of a family member, aging-in-place is a dream that many seniors do not want to […]

Can Home Automation Make Aging In Place A Reality?

Home automation may offer the aging relative in your life an opportunity to remain in his or her home for a longer period of time than may have been possible in the past. While home automation won’t address every issue that may arise, it can add to the safety factor in your relatives’ home. The […]

Can Your Parents Live Independently?

There will likely come a time when your parents can no longer care for themselves and when it does, it’s a time filled with some difficult decisions. You will have to determine whether they can continue to age at home or if they need an assisted living facility. Taking their needs into consideration as much […]

Advice to Help Your Parents Age In Place

When your parents are aging it’s a difficult time for everyone. One of the best gifts you can offer your parents is the opportunity for them to “age in place.”

Five Facts For Maintaining Strong Bones

If you are involved in the well-being of your aging parent or a loved one, it’s important to recognize that people over the age of sixty are more prone to bone related injuries and disease increases. Approximately half of all women over the age of fifty, and approximately 1 in 4 men will break a […]

Vacationing With Your Aging Relatives

Remember all of those vacations your parents treated you to when you were growing up? If you’re in the “sandwich generation” you may now find yourself in the midst of caring for your own children as well as your parents.

Helping Your Aging Relative To Remain Mobile

Statistically, elderly drivers are safer drivers than younger ones. Research finds that they wear seat belts, avoid the roads in inclement weather, avoid rush hour and overall drive fewer miles than most. That isn’t to say there aren’t risks that come with aging medications, reduced mobility and other medical conditions can all conspire to make […]