Home Care In Cincinnati
Cincinnati families are realizing that there are many options to choose from. Live-in Home Care (wherever home may be) is becoming a great choice for many. Affordable and keeping all the benefits of home. Making the right choice for your loved one is the most important choice not just for their physical well being but [...]
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Is Attitude Everything? Successful aging in Ohio is an absence of (or minimum of) disease and disability. A new study of more than 500 persons from age 60 to 98 shows that people who think they are “aging successfully” aren’t necessarily the healthiest individuals. Optimism and effective coping tools, or attitude, were found be essential to [...]
The vast majority of senior citizens are taking some type of medication necessary for their well being with 25 percent of them taking more than 3 pills a day. This medication is necessary for their health, yet many seniors do not take their medication as prescribed. This can be for a variety of different reasons, [...]
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Taking care of an elderly loved one, whether due to dementia or illness, can be exhausting and stressful. Often due to the lack of outside help, a devotion to the person needing care, or the tunnel vision that can accompany exhaustion, caretakers don’t take care of themselves. But they must. Failure to do so can [...]
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Loss of hearing is just one of the common ailments that we associate with growing older. Most of us have been in situations where we find ourselves speaking louder – almost shouting – in the presence of an elderly person just because we assume they are hard of hearing. Recent medical studies indicate that as [...]
Receiving a diagnosis that a loved one is terminally ill is never an easy situation for a family member to accept. However, there are many hard choices that have to be made in the event that a terminal illness should occur. Having to make these hard choices on top of grieving for the prognosis of [...]
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Most seniors today are on at least one prescribed medication for an underlying health condition. Frequently it happens that the senior ends up having to self-administer at least one dose of the medication on their own throughout the day. Home care service providers usually do not stay with the client around the clock so self-medicating [...]
If people would do just four things – engage in regular physical activity, eat a healthy diet, not smoke and avoid becoming obese – they could slash their risk of diabetes, heart attack, stroke or cancer by 80 percent, a new report has found. It really could be this easy …. read the rest of [...]
Despite all the warnings we have received in recent times regarding limiting our caffeine intake, it still remains the drug of choice among people today. Most Americans, on average, consume three and a half cups of coffee per day. The average number of caffeinated soft drinks such as soda that people consume is thought to [...]
Cooking for one can be challenging and expensive Motivation to cook a balanced meal for one’s self coupled with the natural physical limitations related to aging can make preparing meals monotonous and even challenging for a senior. Cooking a meal that’s both appetizing and nutritional is quite an undertaking when you figure in the time [...]
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