Home Health Care
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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15 Good Reasons to Use Home Care for a Loved One
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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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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 [...]
Seniors Who Walk Gain Significant Health Improvement For many years we have heard the health benefit of walking. Benefits include increased lung capacity, weight loss, and muscle strengthening just to name a few. Numerous studies have shown that walking thirty minutes a day three times a week at a minimum not only helps build physical [...]
Physical Therapists Can Properly Assess and Fit Walking Aids to Prevent Injuries ALEXANDRIA, VA, July 13, 2009 — The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) is urging elderly adults who use canes and walkers as walking aids to be properly assessed and fitted by a physical therapist to avoid fall-related injuries. This advice comes in response [...]
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Senior Citizens See Almost 40% Drop in Dementia Risk with Moderate Alcohol Drinking Study of seniors age 75 and older confirms benefits of alcohol in preventing dementia that had been proven for middle aged adults More
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