Our Need for Comfort and Mobility Endures
One of the myths that are important to dispel is that people who choose home care are always confined to bed. In fact, even with a debilitating diagnosis, many people retain their independent mobility....
View ArticleThe Meaning of Hospice: The Opposite of Giving Up
This Has Nothing To Do with Throwing in the Towel A difficult aspect of hospice care is recognizing when to begin. Perhaps the biggest obstacle is realizing that hospice care has nothing to do with...
View ArticleRegaining Control: Easing the Burden of Care
Confronting a Challenge Head On Caring for a disabled family member is a challenge people face more and more as lives grow longer and disabilities are dealt with more effectively. More than 40 million...
View ArticleTouch Is the Language of Compassion
By Carol Combs, MSW Memory Care Coordinator Everyone needs tender loving care, and someone with dementia such as Alzheimer’s disease is no exception. In fact, because dementia robs people of language,...
View ArticleHow to Get Help at Home
Although family, friends, and caregivers will never go out of fashion, technology is growing in importance in helping people stay independent at home longer, safer, and more happily. In fact, CoxHealth...
View ArticleHelp for the Sandwich Generation
Balancing Family Life with Children and Aged Parents It’s probably not the sort of sandwich we had in mind. As we gratefully see generations of our family living longer, many families feel crushed by...
View ArticleThe Hard Conversation
It’s family. We’ve talked all our lives. Around the dinner table, in the car, after school, before and after the landmark events like graduations, marriages, and births, and in the downtime when...
View ArticleHow Music Therapy Helps the Elderly
The family member of one of our home care clients recently recounted to us how she was rooting through her mother’s attic and uncovered a box of LPs from the 1950s. Still in their original sleeves were...
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