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Helping Them Recognize They Need Help

Sometimes, when you need help, you’re the last one to realize it. Maybe it’s stubbornness, maybe it’s denial, or maybe it’s that you’re too busy just getting through the day that you don’t have time to realize that help would be helpful. This isn’t something that goes away with age. In fact, it tends to […]

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Change is Exercise for your Brain

  Last week we talked about ways to help seniors overcome mental barriers keeping them from achieving their fitness resolutions. Keeping your body healthy is something most people have a god idea how to do. Finding the motivation takes some more effort, but we know what we should be doing. Mental health isn’t as clear. […]

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Overcoming Fitness Resolution Barriers

  It’s a new year! For many people, the New Year brings new resolutions. By far the most common resolutions every year have to do with physical fitness.  Unfortunately, fitness resolutions are also the most commonly broken as well. Being active can be hard. You know it’s good for your blood pressure, heart health, respiratory […]

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6 In-Home Care Options to Consider

You and your elderly loved one have decided that it’s best for them to stay at home for as long as possible. The question is: what will that look like? If you’ve arrived at this conclusion, it’s likely that you’ve already asked some important questions about what your loved one needs. So, it’s just a […]

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Helping Family Lighten Their Load

The pressure of taking care of everything and everyone can become overwhelming. Talking to doctors, making sure the whole family is on the same page, struggling with disagreements about what the right page is, making sure that there’s a balance of information so some people aren’t left out of the loop while others are overwhelmed, […]

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Juggling Medical Care with an already Full Plate

One of the most important parts of any care plan is the medical portion. Making sure that your loved one is receiving the medical care that they need is integral to ensuring that they remain healthy and happy for as long as possible. But, this can also be one of the hardest aspects to keep […]

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Staying Where the Heart Is: 7 Questions to Ask When Elderly Loved Ones Need Caregiving

Your parents or other loved ones are aging and you are starting to see signs that they need help. What do you do? Nearly 90% of seniors say that they want to stay at home as they age. But, you are likely aware that isn’t as simple as it sounds. If it’s time to have […]

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Holiday Gatherings with Alzheimer’s

  The holidays should be a time of gathering together with joy and love. But for many families, large gatherings can be stress inducing and a cause for months of anxiety. An estimated 5.3 million Americans have Alzheimer’s, and this disease affects their whole family. We believe that every family should be able to celebrate […]

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How Families Can Support their Aging Loved Ones

 It goes without saying (but we’ll say it anyway) that families play a very important role when it comes to supporting aging loved ones. Traditionally, that support has come pretty naturally, as families often stay close together and it is just expected that the younger will take care of the aging, when the time comes. […]

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Providing a Release to the Pressure

  When someone that you love is aging, losing their mobility, or struggling with independence it can be a stressful situation. Of course the person experiencing these life changes is going to feel the stress most directly. But that does not mean that the other people in their lives aren’t affected. Between worrying about your […]

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