San Diego Home Care BLOG
San Diego and Encinitas Home Care Insights and Advice
What Does In-Home Care Look Like in Laguna Woods Village?
In-home care in Laguna Woods Village usually means a caregiver who comes to your parent's manor or condo for a few hours at a time, helping with the parts of the day that have gotten harder, so they can keep living the life they chose when they moved there. It...
In-Home Care for Adults Under 65 With Disabilities
Almost everything written about in-home care is written about seniors. The photos are of gray-haired people in armchairs, the advice is about dementia and falls, and the whole thing assumes the person needing help is in their eighties. That leaves out a lot of...
We Already Have Caregivers. Can We Still Join GUIDE?
Somebody already comes to the house. They help your mother get up, get washed and dressed, make her breakfast, and they're there through the morning. It's working. Then you hear about Medicare's GUIDE program, and the first thought is usually that it's...
What to Do After an Elderly Parent Falls
She tells you three days later, and only because you asked. She's fine, she says, it was nothing, she went down in the kitchen and got herself back up. What you do in the first hour after a fall matters, and so does the house. But what happens in the six weeks...
How People Actually Pay for Home Care
Almost every family starts in the same place. They assume Medicare covers it, they spend a week or two operating on that assumption, and then somebody tells them it doesn't. That week is expensive, because it's usually the week a decision needed making. So...
Caring for a Parent From Another State
The call comes on a Tuesday afternoon. A neighbor, or the hospital, or your mother sounding strange in a way you can't quite name. You're two thousand miles away and the next flight is tomorrow morning. Being caught off guard like this has less to do with...
Sundowning: Why Dementia Gets Worse in the Late Afternoon
By four in the afternoon she's somebody else. Restless, asking the same question for the ninth time, putting her coat on, certain she needs to get home while she's standing in the middle of her own living room. By eight the next morning she's calm and...
Visiting a Parent Over the Holidays: What to Look For
If you live a plane ride away, the holidays are usually the only time you see your parent properly. Phone calls are a poor instrument. Video calls are worse, because people point the camera at their face and nowhere else. So the visit does a lot of work, and most...
What Home Care Actually Costs, and What Drives the Number
You called three agencies and got three versions of the same answer. It depends. Somebody will need to come out and see. That's frustrating when you're trying to work out whether any of this is possible, and it sounds like a sales tactic. It usually isn't....
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