CALIFORNIA Home Care BLOG
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Alzheimer’s Care at Home: What Changes in the Middle Stage
The early stage is frightening because of what it means. The middle stage is hard because of what it takes. It's usually the longest stretch, often several years, and it's where most families first pick up the phone. What tends to change Everyone is different...
24 Hour Home Care or Live-In Care? What Is the Difference
Families often use these two interchangeably, and agencies don't always help. They're different arrangements, and the difference matters most at night. 24 hour home care With 24 hour home care, caregivers work in shifts. Somebody is awake and alert right...
Your Parent Has Medicare Advantage and Needs Help at Home. What Now?
If you've been reading about Medicare's GUIDE program and then found out your mother is on a Medicare Advantage plan, you already know the disappointing part. GUIDE is for traditional Medicare only. That's a dead end for GUIDE. It isn't a dead end for...
Up to 76 Hours Off: What a Real Break Does for a Family Caregiver
Ask a family caregiver how they are and most of them say fine. Ask when they last slept through the night, or saw their own doctor, or sat somewhere without listening for a sound in the next room, and the answer takes longer. The thing nobody schedules Respite care is...
Agency Caregiver or Hiring Privately? What Actually Changes
Most families compare these two on price, find that hiring privately is cheaper per hour, and stop there. That comparison is not wrong, it is just incomplete, and the parts it leaves out are the parts that tend to matter at the worst possible moment. Here is the whole...
Senior Home Care in Laguna West & Elk Grove Planned Communities
Almost every family asks this in the first phone call, and for years the answer was a flat no. That has changed, though only for one group of families, and most people have not heard about it yet. Here is the honest version. The general answer is still no Medicare...
How Does Dementia Care at Home Change as Things Progress?
Most families are told what dementia is and almost nothing about what the next few years will actually look like at home. Here's the shape of it. Every person is different and nobody moves through this on a schedule, but the pattern is recognizable, and knowing what's...
Caring for a Husband or Wife, Not a Parent
Almost everything written about family caregiving assumes you're the adult child. Different house, different generation, a life you go back to at the end of the day. Caring for a spouse is a different situation, and it gets less attention than it should. You're...
What Happens at a Free In-Home Assessment?
Most families put off a free in-home assessment for months, and cost is rarely the reason: they simply don't know what they'd be agreeing to. Here's what actually happens: one person visits for about an hour, asks how your parent's days and nights...
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