Wash Your Hands Often to Stay Healthy You can help yourself and others stay healthy by washing your hands often, especially during these key times when you are likely to get and spread germs: Before, during, and after preparing food Before eating food Before and after caring for someone who is sick Before and after treating a cut or wound After blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing After using the toilet After changing…
When is it time to get some help? Sometimes the decline in your own health or that of a loved is not always obvious. A gradual decline in someone’s health is harder to recognize than a sudden change. Where someone once walked just fine, a gradual change over a year may go unnoticed. Now they are slower, stooped over, and…
More than 65 million people in the US provide care for a chronically ill, disabled, or aged family member or friend during any given year and spend an average of 20 hours per week providing care for their loved one. Many family caregivers are adult children who still work a full-time job and are raising children and grandchildren of their…
Benefits of Rehab After a Heart Attack. February 2, 2018 by Valerie Shaw After your parent suffers a heart attack, it is important as their family caregiver that you encourage them to make the decisions that are right for their needs and to maintain better health as they move forward in this new chapter in life. Part of this might be…
Why are Seniors the Number 1 Target for Scams? Our Seniors today were born between the 1930’s and 1950’s. In that era ‘scams’ as we see in present times did not exist for the most part. People were more trusting. Your word was your bond. A handshake was more binding than a written contract due to the depth of each…
