Improving Your Loved One's Nursing Home Experience

• Entering Your Golden Years? Two Reasons Why You Should Move to an Assisted-Living Facility

  4 November 2016

  If you're an older individual who is heading into your golden years, you're not alone. The Baby-Boomer generation is growing older and are having to make some real decisions about how they want to do so. One of the considerations you'll need to make concerns your living arrangements. Although you may be planning to continue living at your house, this may not be the best option. It may be a better idea for you to move into an assisted-living facility.

• 4 Benefits of Home Health Care

  3 November 2016

  Home health care is a way for your aging parent or other loved one to get the health-related treatment and attention they need right in the comfort of their own home. Here are four major benefits of home health care to keep in mind. Home Health Care Is an Alternative to Assisted Living For many families, as their parent or other loved one becomes older, less mobile, and more prone to health concerns, the choice comes down to assisted living or in-home care.

• Quick Tips for Helping Your Elderly Parents Move

  3 November 2016

  When it's time to make the move to a smaller location, be it a smaller home, an apartment, or an assisted living facility, your parents will need your help to make that move as easy as possible. The emotional connections to what you and your parents call home can be enormous, and it can be difficult to downsize even when everyone agrees that it's the right move to make. For some quick and easy tips to help smooth the way for the move, read on.

• How to Get Better on a Faster Time Frame When Going Through Physical Therapy

  3 November 2016

  If you find yourself in short term rehab or physical therapy, there's a good chance that you want to be done with it and well as soon as possible. This can be frustrating because you can't really force your body to get better faster. This could keep you from being able to play the sports you love or just get around easily. There are a few things that you can do to slightly speed up the process, however.

• Home Health Provides Temporary Wound-Care Services for Seniors

  1 November 2016

  If your senior mom lives alone and is about to have surgery, she might be left with an open wound that will need to be taken care of for a period of time. If she is not able to do this herself, and if you are not able to visit her daily, you may want to hire a home-health company to handle her wound-care needs. Home health workers can do many tasks, including this type of task, and they can be hired for temporary services like this.