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Fun Crafts for the Elderly
Your elderly senior needs to have fun things to do to relieve boredom and combat stress. Crafts are often a very good outlet for seniors. A craft gives them an opportunity to use creativity and also make something beautiful and useful. As a home care provider, you can help your aging loved one to have some fun with crafts. Getting her children and grandchildren [...]
Senior Traveling Tips this Summer
Don't Let Travel Hinder Your Elder's Summer A summer trip for Mom or Dad could be just what they need - a trip to see a relative that they haven’t seen in years; a trip to visit grandchildren or even great-grandchildren. Does your parent need you to come along and assist them? There are a lot of things to think about ahead of time. [...]
How Do You Cheer Someone Up?
Even when you think you’re doing everything right, your elderly adult can still get downhearted sometimes. You might not even know why. In fact you may have no idea whatsoever what’s causing your loved one to be sad and blue. Sometimes they will tell you; often they won’t. Maybe they don’t even know why they’re sad. So how can you cheer up someone who’s [...]
Senior Care in Mt. Laurel, NJ: Building Self Confidence in an Elderly Adult
A lack of self-esteem in the elderly person is more common than most people realize. Age brings a lot of changes with it, including losing some of the comforts that a person has enjoyed for many years: mobility, flexibility, good health, a career, etc. The good news is, as a caregiver in the senior care service profession, there are things you can do to [...]
Rituals for Making Connections
According to the dictionary a ritual is a procedure or way of doing something that we establish in our life. It could be for a religious or other reason. Little rituals help us feel connected to the sacred or important parts of our lives. Rituals done with family members such as sharing meals together, gives us a feeling of being connected. Elderly care providers [...]
Elderly Care in Turnersville, NJ: June is Aphasia Awareness Month
Aphasia is a language disorder. It comes from the ancient Greek word aphatos which means disturbance. What do we know about aphasia? There is dysfunction in specific regions of the brain which comprehend and formulate words into language. Patient has difficulty remembering words. May lose abilities to read, speak or write words. Visual language (for example sign language) is also affected Could be linked [...]
Senior Care in Turnersville, NJ: June 24th is Teddy Bear Day!
Here’s a riddle: What do June 24th, September 9th and November 14th all have in common? Answer: They all claim to be National Teddy Bear Day! Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, and this could be one of those cases. When doing research on National Teddy Bear Day, it was unclear just which day belongs to the American favorite stuffed animal. We may never [...]
Goals Of Care for People with Alzheimer’s
Senior Care in Southern NJ A person with dementia needs to be treated just like any other person when it comes to deciding how they should be cared for. David Barile, MD of the Princeton University Medical center has come up with a program to try and establish goals for all seniors and can be found at www.goalsofcare.org. His program recommends setting [...]
The Alzheimer’s Puzzle: Cherry Hill NJ
Elder Care in Cherry Hill NJ At Home To Stay, we have discovered that caring for a person with Alzheimer's disease is in many ways like trying to put together a difficult puzzle. If you do not have all the pieces in place, it just does not work. There are many ways to look at this. When I refer to the pieces, [...]
The Impact of Alzheimer’s on Brain Function
In the Alzheimer’s patient, as the disease runs its course it destroys a great deal of the billions of nerve cells in the brain. Nerve cells communicate bits of information back and forth via some special chemicals that are produced in the brain. The disease also disrupts the production of these neurotransmitters. The Marvelous Brain and Alzheimer's Behavioral Changes The brain in the [...]
Protecting the Skin from Winter Weather
Protecting Aging Skin from Winter Weather Aging takes its toll on our skin. It becomes thinner than it used to be and develops dryness and fragility. Seniors can be prone to skin ailments such as shingles and senile purpura – this makes the skin bruise easily. Shingles is a result of the chicken pox virus and is excruciatingly itchy as well as painful. [...]
Gadgets to Make Life Easier For Seniors
Being a caregiver isn’t easy, but with the use of some helpful gadgets you can make your life as a care provider for an aging loved one a bit simpler. Some of these caregiver splurges are purely for convenience and comfort, while others can actually make it easier for you to provide safe, effective care for your loved one. Some of these helpful tools [...]
