5 Tips for the Beginning Caregiver
If you’re new to being a family caregiver, you might be feeling a little overwhelmed. You may not know how to get started or what you can do to make the experience as easy on yourself as possible. Below are 5 things you can do as a beginning caregiver to improve your journey. #1: Spend […]
What Do You Need to Know as Your Senior Starts Dealing with Dementia?
Learning that your senior has dementia may be the last thing that either of you expected. This doesn’t have to mean that everything changes overnight, but there are things you need to know about being a caregiver to someone with dementia. Her Brain Is Changing The most important thing to remember when your senior is diagnosed […]
How Safe Is Your Senior’s Bedroom?
Have you given much thought to specific safety concerns in your senior’s bedroom? It might be time to do so. Lighting Is a Concern Everywhere Even if you’ve checked the lighting throughout the house, double check the lighting in your senior’s bedroom. Lots of people don’t have lighting they can really use in their bedrooms, […]
Making a Hospital Stay Easier for Your Loved One with Alzheimer’s Disease
If you have a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease who is staying in the hospital for any reason it is important to do certain things. Being admitted to the hospital can be very scary for people with Alzheimer’s disease. They may feel scared because they aren’t in a familiar environment. The new people, doctors and […]
How to Make Your Loved One’s Home Environment More Engaging
It is important that elderly adults live in an engaging home environment. Research shows that elderly adults who are more engaged have a happier, more entertaining life. If you are helping to care for your elderly loved one, there are some ways that you and their home care providers can make their home environment more […]
Get Your Loved One to Build Healthy Bonds with Caregivers
If your loved one is to the point where they need senior care providers to help take care of them, it is important that they create and build healthy bonds with those providers. By doing so, they will connect with them more, have a positive daily routine, and be able to build a healthy relationship […]
Are You Afraid You’re Going to Fail at Caregiving?
It’s so difficult to be new to caregiving. You don’t have experience to lean on yet and there are all the “what ifs” that you likely spend way too much time thinking about. Plus, what if you really mess up? If that’s your biggest fear as a caregiver, you need to know that you’re going […]
How Do You Boost the Nutrition in Your Dad’s Favorite Meals?
Your dad is a meat and potatoes kind of guy. He loves lasagna, shepherd’s pie, and stew. He’s also been diagnosed with high blood pressure and high cholesterol. He’s been told to improve his diet. He doesn’t have to give up his favorites. He can enjoy new versions of his childhood favorites. Here are easy […]
Five Ways to Give a Family Caregiver a Break
Due to your full-time job or distance from your parents’ home, you don’t help with their care as much as others. Their care falls on your sister’s shoulders. How can you help give her a break when you’re not close or don’t have as much time? Ask Her What Would Help the Most Ask your […]
What to Keep in Mind When Dementia Behaviors are Difficult
One of the hardest parts of being a family caregiver to someone with dementia is that the disease changes the way the older adult behaves. It can be very hard to see your elderly grandfather who was always a sweet, gentle man scream or yell. And, having someone follow you around the house, even into […]
