What Is Non-Medical Home Care? pt 2

Non-medical home care services provide seniors with safety, security, and assistance while remaining in their own home. Which in most cases, home is exactly where they prefer to live. You should consider non-medical home care if your elderly parent(s): --...

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What is Non-Medical Home Care? pt 1

What is non-medical home care? Non-medical home care provides services such as companionship, transportation, light housekeeping. This support keeps elders safe, secure, and with personalized assistance in their own home. Additionally, home care staff will help with senior's personal...

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Aging and Your Metabolism, pt 2

The process of breaking down food for use as energy is called "metabolism". The body breaks down food molecules to release the energy stored within them. This energy is needed for vital functions like movement, thought, growth -- everything...

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Aging and Your Metabolism, pt 1

Aging Necessitates Changing Diet The energy stored in food is measured in terms of "calories", which is a measurement tool for food just as inches or yards are a measurement for a specific distance. Calories measure the amount of energy...

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Elders Prefer Home Care, pt 2

Home care helps seniors maintain their independence. Stability, safety, familiarity of surroundings all come in to play. Home care allows seniors to continue to live in the place they function best – their home. Actually, the care engagement...

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Elders Prefer Home Care, pt 1

What is widely viewed as the best and most viable delivery of health care in America? The answer….approximately 90 percent of infirm and elderly individuals have been found to prefer home care over comparable institutional care. What are...

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Family Care Resources AND Professional Care Staff

Professional Care Can Relieve Family Burnout Absorbing the care and support for elderly parents can be stressful, overwhelming, and costly. All seniors have different emotional and physical needs. There is no "one solution" that will permanently fit. Some elderly parents...

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Deafness Can Cause Isolation in Elderly, pt 3

There are increasing number of market technologies which address hearing loss. Do some research to determine what might best provide some help for your elderly parents. Assistive/adaptive devices are those products that help elderly learn to live with hearing...

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Pneumonia in Elderly Adults: Causes, Detection, and Prevention, pt 5

Pneumonia can be caused by a buildup of bacteria, viruses, or fungi in the lungs. There are several types of bacteria that can cause pneumonia, some typical and some atypical. Any virus that can cause an upper respiratory illness...

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Pneumonia in Elderly Adults: Prevention, pt 4

Seniors showing the symptoms of pneumonia should immediately seek medical help. Pneumonia can progress quite rapidly in elderly. When seeking medical help, doctors typically conduct one of the following tests to diagnose pneumonia: -- Taking a blood culture -- Measuring...

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