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Taking Care of Parents? These Tips Can Help!

Since your mother gave up her car keys and is having difficulties moving around on her own, you and your siblings have made the decision to share the task of providing for her care needs. Someone has to take her to the doctor’s office, grocery store and beauty shop. Someone else needs to take care […]

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How to Advocate for Senior Health Care for a Loved One

Here at CareWorks Health Services in California, we have truly seen how often family caregivers can be “routinely marginalized and ignored within the health care system,” which is a statement that can also be found in the latest report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. With around 18 million family members providing […]

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Issues in Senior Care: When Dementia Causes Anger Outbursts and What You Should Do

Those providing senior care for a loved one with Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia know all too well the varied and complex behaviors associated with the disease, and one of the most challenging is the change in temperament – the Jekyll and Hyde transformation from that sweet, gentle person into an angry, offensive bully. […]

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Providing Senior Care at Home After a Hospitalization: How to Keep an Older Adult Safe

Think about this possibility: your 90-year-old mother, who lives in her own home alone, fell recently, cracked her pelvis, and is being released from the hospital today. Sorting through and reading her discharge paperwork, you notice the doctor’s orders for a number of different medications, ongoing physical therapy, a medical checkup appointment that needs to […]

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Can Orange County Home Care Help Seniors Embrace Assistive Technology?

Seniors in California are inundated with an explosion of high tech products aimed at improving their safety and independence and enhancing their lives. By pressing a few buttons, they can instantly visit by video with friends and family through Skype, wear a bracelet that connects with emergency personnel when assistance is needed, and even be […]

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Knowing When to Take the Step Toward 24-Hour Dementia Care

Taking good care of a family member with dementia requires ongoing adaptation to the individual’s changing needs. As the disease advances, there comes a point when 24-hour dementia care becomes not just beneficial but necessary for ensuring the safety, well-being, and good quality of life for the person.

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Examples of High-Tech Tools

Now Available to Assist One to Remain at Home Safely Kami Senior Care Camera Real-time alerts—caregivers will receive a notification on their mobile device after a fall happens 2-way audio and live view allow you to speak to your loved ones through the device itself Wide coverage—enough to cover an entire room (wi-fi connection required) […]

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A Compassionate Approach to Supporting Seniors Through Loss

By the time we reach our golden years, we’ve had many years of building deep connections with friends and family. These bonds are crucial to our quality of life, so when they are severed, it inevitably results in feelings of deep loss.

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Enhancing Dementia Care Through Culinary Activities

There’s something so special about the kitchen. It is the very first stop kids make once they get home from school, in search of a snack as well as the chance to share the events of their day. It’s the spot family members gather to cook holiday meals together. It’s also a place to warm […]

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Maintaining Life Balance with Hospital-at-Home Care

No one wants to spend any longer than necessary in the hospital. The goal is to get the necessary treatment or procedure over with as soon as possible and move on to recovering. Unsurprisingly, the growing trend in hospital-at-home care services is one being met with open arms. Imagine being able to avoid: The bright lights, […]

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Overcoming Resentment When Caring for a Spouse

You both promised to care for each other through better or worse, in sickness and in health. When these cherished sentiments are first spoken on your wedding day, it is difficult to imagine how it will feel to actually live them out. It might come as a shock to you that frustration, anger, and resentment […]

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Understanding How Dementia Affects the Five Senses

When we think about dementia, the first thing that usually springs to mind is the loss of memory. Cognitive decline is a hallmark effect of Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia, but there are so many other facets of life which are impacted as well. As a matter of fact, each one of the […]