January 2010

Siblings Turned Caregivers – How To Handle Your New Role

As an adult child of an older parent in need of extra care, the stress of becoming a caregiver can be overwhelming. Oftentimes, large families with many siblings have to find ways to share the responsibility of caring for aging parents. In a very interesting article by Lindsay Lyon as published by US News & [...]

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Men Are Caregivers, Too Comfort Keepers® Provides Tips, Shows Support for Male Caregivers

In a role traditionally taken on by women, a growing number of men are charting unfamiliar territory and becoming primary caregivers for their wives or elderly parents.  According to a comprehensive study conducted for AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving in 2004, 39 percent of an estimated 44.4 million caregivers are males. Whether an [...]

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Senior Care for Veterans in Ocala, Florida | Gainesville, Florida | The Villages, Florida

If you are a veteran, or the surviving spouse of a veteran, requiring in-home care, you may be eligible to receive pension benefits through the Veterans Non-Service Connected (NSC) Improved Pension Benefit Program.  Comfort Keepers® of Ocala, Gainesville, and The Villages can help. For aging veterans, one of their most important benefit programs is the [...]

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Aging and Your Senses: Caregiver Tips and Info for the Elderly

As people get older: They have problems with their vision due to changes in the eye muscles. These problems include: Trouble reading small print without reading glasses. Difficulty seeing objects off to the side. Problems seeing in dim light or at night. Trouble seeing certain colors. (Blues, greens and purples all tend to look alike.) [...]

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How to Select In-home Care for Seniors

In today’s mobile society families don’t always live close to one another. More and more, the adult children of seniors find themselves concerned about their parents living alone or getting the extra help they may need. Sometimes assisted living facilities or nursing homes can be a solution, but ask most seniors where they would prefer [...]

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A Different Kind of Senior Care – Ocala, Florida | Gainesville, Florida | The Villages, Florida

Comfort Keepers® of Ocala, Gainesville and The Villages approach to senior in-home care is centered on a concept called Interactive Caregiving TM.  Study after study demonstrates how the principles behind this active approach to in-home care can help seniors maintain their independence, enhance their wellbeing, maintain their mental and emotional vitality, and help them enjoy [...]

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Aging & the Skin: What Central Florida Seniors Should Know

As people get older their skin gets thinner and loses its ability to stretch. This makes it easier to injure. Once injured, the skin is less able to fight off infection and takes longer to heal. Seniors also have fewer sweat glands, so they may find it difficult to keep their body temperature stable. Do [...]

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Seniors, The Elderly, and Technology: Improving lives every day-Part IV

Welcome to our four part series entitled: Seniors, The Elderly, and Technology: Improving lives every day. Part IV – Technology improves quality of life for seniors with Alzheimer’s or dementia. As people age and their care needs change, monitoring systems have the flexibility to change with them. For example, additional devices can be connected to [...]

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Seniors, The Elderly, and Technology: Improving lives every day-Part III.

Welcome to our four part series entitled: Seniors, The Elderly, and Technology: Improving lives every day.   Part III – How Does Monitoring Technology Impact Family Caregiving? In a 2007 study entitled “What’s Mom Doing Now? Impact of Monitoring Technology in Family Caregiving,” the Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University in Ohio had monitoring systems [...]

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Seniors, The Elderly, and Technology: Improving lives every day. Part II

Welcome to our four part series entitled: Seniors, The Elderly, and Technology: Improving lives every day. Part II – How Will America Meet the Need for In-home Care When Caregiver Availability is Declining? Now at nearly 40 million, the 65+ group will more than double by 2050. This growth will be fueled by 76 million [...]

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