Exercise is important for everyone in order to maintain overall health but for seniors with arthritis, exercise can be painful and seem impossible. Often times, the elderly who suffer from arthritis are reluctant to exercise due to the stiffness and pain in the joints. There are exercises that you can encourage a senior to partake in as part of elder care. Exercise is one of the best ways to manage pain when it [...]

As you grow older, you may find yourself considering senior care. There are different reasons for needing this kind of help in your daily life as you age. Some of the reasons may be problems with mobility, memory loss or the loss of cognitive reasoning. Difficulty with hearing or vision impairment could become issues too. Also if the loss of any of these functions happens to you then you can also begin to [...]

Sometimes weather puts a damper on our plans for the day, but it certainly doesn"t have to end the fun. When it is raining or snowing outside, we don"t always want to take our senior loved ones out in fear of them catching cold or other illnesses. During the winter or spring months, snow or rain can put a hold on errands or outdoor activities for quite a few days in a row. [...]

Mark and Sheila are two elderly individuals who don’t really know one another, but they have similar physical and mental abilities. They are both 79 years old, widowed, and living alone. Their children all live more than an hour away from them, and during the past few years, their health and physical abilities have begun to decline to the point when they can no longer do some of the things that they used [...]