Management Tips and Risk Factors for Chronic Kidney Disease
They are only around the size of your fist, but they’re imperative to your body’s functioning. Kidneys serve as filters to get rid of waste from the body, but they also regulate our blood pressure and assist in the creation of red blood cells. For people diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, successful management is vital […]
New Year, New You: Healthy New Year’s Resolutions for Caregivers
We either love them or hate them, but no matter what our stance on New Year’s resolutions, there is something wonderfully refreshing about stepping into a brand new year, offering us with a clean slate and a chance to make any changes we desire to improve quality of life or even to accomplish a brand […]
Senior Abuse Can Happen to Anyone. Take These Steps to Keep Your Loved Ones Safe
It breaks our hearts to hear stories from the news of vulnerable seniors who have suffered mistreatment and abuse, and perhaps it appears as though it’s something which will happen to “someone else” – certainly not to our own senior loved ones. Nevertheless, approximately 5 million seniors in the U.S. are subjected to some form […]
Signs of Stress and How to Help Seniors Overcome It
They’re known as “the golden years” for good reason; aging infuses in people knowledge from lessons learned during a lifetime, and also the chance to relax from the frantic pace of young adulthood and take the time to truly enjoy what counts most. Still, our senior years can certainly be a time of added stress, […]
Relax and Enjoy a Stress-Free Holiday with Seniors
When celebrating the holidays, the world’s message to us is that the grander, brighter, flashier, and more expensive the experience, the better. But for family caregivers, particularly those in the sandwich generation who are currently providing care for both senior parents and their own kids and spouse, attempting to meet these expectations can be overwhelming. […]
Family Caregivers: Overcome Holiday Stress with Professional Respite Care
Despite being profoundly rewarding and fulfilling, providing care for an aging loved one also encompasses a multitude of challenges that can trigger serious health risks for family caregivers. And while it’s very common for family members to put their own needs on the back burner to place the emphasis completely on the needs of their […]
Make the Most of Holiday Visits: Assess Senior Elder Care Needs
Getting together with family and friends is the hallmark of the holiday season. With the kids off from school and extended time away from the workplace, it’s the optimal chance for the generations to get together and enjoy some quality time. The holidays also serve as the opportune time to evaluate the health, safety and […]
Struggling with the Stress of Caregiving ? Home With You Can Help!
Caregiving and stress generally go hand in hand. Dedicating your life to fulfilling the needs of an elderly family member can be difficult, specifically when a serious health problem is at play, leaving family care providers with less time to meet their own needs and for rewarding and relaxing activities. Yet, it’s vitally important for […]
Top Tips from Home With You to Overcome Sibling Rivalry for the Best Possible Senior Care
In thinking through the years spent with your sisters and brothers, you can likely recollect a plethora of marvelous memories: holidays and vacations spent with each other, childhood games you treasured, landmarks like graduations, birthdays, and weddings. Yet if we’re truthful, there are also numerous hurts that happened that commonly linger with us even into […]
Caregiver Guilt: Here’s Why You Need to Let It Go – and How to Do Just That
There’s one thing all caregivers can relate to: guilt. It doesn’t matter how much time and effort we devote to caring for a senior loved one, somehow it never seems to be enough, leaving us thinking we should have done more, shown more compassion, been more patient. And if we don’t properly handle senior caregiver […]