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Are Your Mom’s Prescription Costs Keeping Her From Taking Meds?
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a look at health care spending in 2016. In that report, it’s said that spending on prescription medications would increase by more than 6 percent each year from 2016 to 2025. In 2015 alone, the U.S. spent $325 on...
Hiring Home Care Providers for Post-Surgery Care
It’s common for elderly adults to need some kind of surgery to take care of illness, injury or age-related health conditions. From cataract surgery to hip replacements, surgeries for seniors can range from minor to significant. When family members want to make sure...
Tips for Helping Your Children Understand Your Parent’s Brain Injury
Being a family caregiver for an elderly adult can be very challenging, particularly when you are also caring for your children. Referred to as the sandwich generation, this is the reality for a large percentage of the middle-aged adults of the United States. When you...
Do You Have More Help than You Think?
As a caregiver it’s really difficult sometimes to see all of the help that’s available to you. Some help you need to do a little digging to find, but other assistance is right there waiting for you to ask. Talk to Friends and Neighbors Even if you don’t have a bunch...
How Can Occupational Therapy Benefit Seniors?
April is National Occupational Therapy Month, which means that there’s no better time to examine how occupational therapy can add enormous benefit to the lives of seniors of all abilities. Who Needs Occupational Therapy? Age brings all kinds of physical and mental...
What Should You Keep in an Emergency Bag for Seniors?
An emergency bag is a great solution to have on hand for your aging adult. A small duffel bag can hold way more than you might think and it’s easy to grab on the way out the door. Current Information and Documents Any information about your senior’s health, allergies,...
What is Pulmonary Embolism?
Most often DVT, or deep vein thrombosis, occurs in the leg. The blood clot can cause serious lingering effects, including pain, and can reoccur many times. If the clot should move into the lungs, it creates a condition referred to as pulmonary embolism. This condition...
What is Touch Hunger in the Elderly?
As a family caregiver, you are busy with taking care of the needs of your elderly mom or dad. You do your best to make sure they are clean, dressed, fed and medicated. While all those things are very important, did you remember to give your loved one a hug? If you...
Four Steps to Make Sure Your Mom Doesn’t Fall for Prize Scams
Prize scams are one of the most common scams senior citizens fall for. They get a postcard in the mail saying they’ve won free airfare or a cruise for two. All they have to do is call the 800 number. They get an email that they’ve won a lottery. To claim their funds,...
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