A caregiver’s job is no easy task. It's a job that often comes with physical, emotional and sometimes financial costs. Yet, there's no doubt about it, caregiving can be very satisfying as well.
Caregiver Tips
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 technology available ranges from home medical alert devices to the ability to not only talk with, but physically see, your relatives through the use of a web camera.
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 as possible is something that the family will want to do, but safety and security needs to be your primary motivating factor in making decisions for and with them.
Tips To Stay Active And Involved
As we age, it's often easier to kick back and relax, but that can have adverse effects on your health and well-being. You can also do gentle stretching or bending exercises during television commercials. Moving about helps address arthritic joints and also keeps the brain active.
It's Allergy Season
Spring has sprung and that means so has allergy season. About 35 million Americans experience the ill effects of occasional allergies; pollen is the greatest spring allergy trigger in most people.
Is it Time For Your Elderly Parents To Move In
On the surface, it might seem like a good idea to move your aging parents into your home once they're no longer able to live independently. Doing so may eliminate the need for you to split your time between spending time with your own family and making trips to your parent's home to take care of them, but intergenerational housing isn't always a smooth transition.
Spring Cleaning Leads To Summer Relaxation
Once the snow has melted and the sun warms the air and the earth around you, your thoughts turn to summer. Before summer hits, many people get the urge to spring clean. Giving your home a thorough spring-cleaning leaves it, and you, feeling refreshed, revitalized and ready for summer. A spring cleaning can involve taking down the heavier winter curtains, cleaning the windows then hanging up the lighter, breezier summer window hangings. It also means you take off the winter quilts and replace them with summer weight blankets.
Dental Care For Older Adults
Dental care today has made tremendous leaps and bounds since the 1940s. With all the medical advances since then, there are still many people born prior to World War II who may be lacking in oral hygiene care. Regular trips to the dentist were not commonplace in those days, nor was fluoride or floss. As a result, many older individuals today experience a high level of tooth loss, cavities and gum disease. Today, nearly one out of every four people over the age of 65 has lost all of their teeth. A shocking number given all that we know on dental hygiene today.
Convincing Your Loved One To Use A Medical Alarm Device
Aging in place is one of the last bastions of independence for many seniors. If your aging loved ones have been determined to hold onto their independence in this way, you know that equipping them with a personal emergency response system can help them achieve this goal. Investing in a personal medical alarm device from LifeFone should be brought up to your loved ones in such a way as to let them know that using one of these devices isn't taking away any independence, but is actually assisting them with their desire to age in place.
Staying Warm In The Cold Weather
Bitter winds, blowing snow and frigid, single digit temperatures make their way across the country in winter threatening humans as well as livestock and plant life.
