Alzheimer's and Caregiving Written By : Stephanie Roberts Many people say they’ll never put Mom in a nursing home. This is easy to do when she’s healthy, but if she gets Alzheimer’s disease it becomes much more difficult. The first thing you need to take into consideration is the safety of your parent. Thinking “it’s my responsibility” can cause you to try and do too much. While your intentions are good, this can lead to accidents. And all too often injury is the first sign a caregiver is in over their head. Then you try and react to the situation and scramble looking for solutions. So how can you avoid this trap? The best thing to do is become proactive and educate yourself about Alzheimer’s disease. Ask for help. …
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Understanding Osteoporosis: Learn More During National Osteoporosis Awareness Month May is Osteoporosis Awareness Month. The experts say that by 2025, each year osteoporosis will cause around three million fractures, and the related cost will skyrocket to over 25 billion dollars. Osteoporosis can occur when hormonal changes take place, or when you do not have enough vitamin D or calcium in your system. These changes or deficiencies in senior health can cause a loss of tissue that makes the bones fragile and brittle, which makes it easier for the bones to break. Unbelievably, sometimes just a sneeze can break a bone when you suffer from a severe case of osteoporosis. Around half of all women older than 50 and up to one in four men will suffer from a broken bone…
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Medication Reminders Provide Safe Home Care for Seniors by LTC Expert Publications As the population ages, at home care for seniors has become a priority in the area of elder care. Medication reminders is a simple, cost effective service that can help keep seniors in home care longer. Modern science has remarkably lengthened our lives but without a solution for everyday assistance, home care for seniors is an expensive alternative that few can afford. Quality of life is dramatically compromised if elder care at home is not feasible. While the cost of senior care at home runs in the thousands of dollars per month, medication reminders is a cost effective alternative that can serve to avoid nursing home or assisted living admission. Elder care issues are now a reality for…
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Is Home Care for You? By Maria M. Meyer and Paula Derr, Contributing Writers The need to provide care for another person arises for many reasons. Often, the person who needs care does not realize it and family members must step in to help make decisions. One of those decisions involves who the caregiver will be and where care will be provided. The choices can be difficult unless you know what to consider. When one member of the family becomes disabled, roles within the family often change. A person who took care of the family in the past or was the income provider may become dependent, while another person in the family takes on added, often unfamiliar responsibilities. For a single person, the changes may involve a new dependence on…
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But there is a little-known way for some people in certain states to receive home care through Medicaid, without requiring them to impoverish themselves first. Here’s how it works: a federal law established in 1993 allows disabled people to put their monthly income or assets — above the amounts Medicaid allows them to keep — into a special type of pooled trust. They can then use the money in the trust to pay for their basic monthly bills like rent, a mortgage payment or cable television. Medicaid, meanwhile, pays for the home care.
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