Senior Guardianship | What You Need to Know About Guardianship
Senior Guardianship: What You Need to Know About Guardianship Although the level of advancement varies by person, age ultimately brings impairment of physical and mental capacity. Many elderly people ultimately lose the ability to handle their financial and personal affairs. When the capacity to decide dwindles, guardians step in to maintain the necessary care and […]
Importance of Taking Medications Correctly for Seniors
As people age, most of them start to develop health problems. Those health problems accumulate and many of those conditions are treated with medications. The majority of elderly people take more than five different drugs. They take pills for high blood pressure, heart problems, diabetes, gout, urinary incontinence, arthritis and a multitude of other diseases […]
My Elderly Parents Have Unhealthy Habits | How To Intervene
Do you feel like your elderly parents have unhealthy habits? In this article, we will discuss how you can intervene as an adult child. To begin, we will discuss changing rolls. As a child, your parents were the ones who steered you from bad habits into good ones. They likely insisted on eating well and […]
Home Care is Poised to a Key Role in Coming Years as the Center of Health Care
For a variety of reasons, home care is currently poised to be and play a key role in the coming years as the center of health care. Changes is our country’s demographics over the past few decades is showing a continued trend towards elders living longer and desiring to age in place at home. Health […]
Caregiver Engagement in Discharge Plan Reduces Hospital Readmissions
In 2015, American Hospital Association published a report on the topic of the hospital discharge process, noting that there was about a 17.5% reduction in hospital readmission, most of the patients being elderly. In 2017, the University of Pittsburgh Health Policy Institute discovered that hospitals which involved unpaid caregivers or family members in the discharge […]
Why Do the Elderly Refuse Help? What You Can Do to Encourage Seniors
At some point, everyone must rely on someone else for assistance. For some seniors, this is harder to admit than it is for others, and families often find themselves stuck in the position of trying to convince their senior loved one to accept help from another person. Whether you are trying to help your parent […]