It’s not a hard choice for many seniors: you can move out of your home and move into an assisted living community surrounded by strangers where you’ll be able to receive all sorts of care. Or, with some help, you…
It’s not too surprising that the longer you’re around someone, the less you’ll tend to listen to every word they say, an observation that many a husband and wife have likely discussed the longer they’ve stayed married. It’s not that…
Although we still don’t know a whole lot about the workings of the brain, science is beginning to learn more about what happens when it’s damaged and how recovery for residents of Burbank and elsewhere can often be challenging. In…
There are all sorts of reasons people become caregivers, and they pretty much are all good ones. Some who provide in-home care in Santa Ana and elsewhere do it as a well-paying and satisfying job, some do it out of love or responsibility.…
As much as we may complain about people sometimes or want to be left alone once in a while, residents of Coronado and elsewhere generally do like having some people around them – but maybe not real close all the time. For…
Whether they live by themselves, with caregivers, or in an assisted living center, we still worry about our loved ones. That’s just part of caring about someone and basic human nature. Many residents of Van Nuys and elsewhere will continue to worry…
There’s a lot that many of today’s seniors have in common, but at least one is what a lot of residents of Arcadia and elsewhere wish they didn’t share: arthritis. Depending on the person and their particular medical condition at any point…
Maybe you or a mom-to-be in your life was told to increase folic acid while pregnant. It wasn’t too hard to up the dose, even if the reasons given may not have gone further than “it’s good for you and…
It can be tricky sometimes to get someone to go to the doctor or emergency room for help since an automatic instinct of many residents of Anaheim and elsewhere is to say “nothing to worry about.” In some cases, it…
There are plenty of reasons that palliative care is becoming more of an appealing option for residents of Van Nuys and elsewhere. For many people, switching to this type of care can get them out of a noisy, unfamiliar, and painful hospital and…