Tips for Helping Your Senior Maintain Their Friendships
Getting enough social interaction is important for everyone, but elderly adults often struggle with maintaining friendships and other relationships. Your aging parent may be suffering from mobility issues and challenges that keep them from being able to get out of the house as often as they would like to, may have moved into a new […]
Helping Hands Homecare Turns 15!
All of us at Helping Hands Homecare wish to express our sincere appreciation to our customers, employees and business partners for their loyal support as we celebrate our fifteenth year in business. When our company was founded in 2003 with just a few employees, we could hardly foresee our growth into a partnership with the […]
How Can You Help Your Senior Manage Type 2 Diabetes?
Type 2 diabetes is a form of diabetes that usually does not require your senior to use insulin. It does, however, involve unstable blood sugars that your senior can hopefully control with diet and exercise. Talk with Her Doctor about a Care Plan. Right after your senior is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, her doctor […]
Can Your Aging Adult Help Your Children in Your Care Routine?
A growing number of adults throughout the United States are members of what is known as the sandwich generation. In fact, among adults between the ages of 40 and 60, approximately one in eight are family caregivers providing direct care for aging family members, and as many as 10 million more are distance caregivers, and […]
Diabetes Management Tips When Your Mom Also Has Alzheimer’s
Two of the biggest issues you’ll face when your mom has Alzheimer’s are daily medications and diet. She won’t remember to take medications without being reminded. She may be in the kitchen or bathroom, see her pills and not realize she’s taken them. If you’re not careful, she may take a second, third, or even […]
What Do You Need to Know about Visiting Elderly Relatives?
If you don’t live near your senior, visits may be the only time that you’re able to see her and how she’s living now. You can use these visits to help you determine if and when she might need more help. Visits Can Serve Dual Purposes. The biggest reason for you to visit your elderly […]
What May Cause Sundowning in Your Aging Parent?
Sundowning impacts approximately 20% of those who are living with Alzheimer’s disease. Considered one of the top sleep disturbances that can develop in Alzheimer’s disease, sundowning is a condition characterized by anxiety, confusion, and restlessness that sets in as the day comes to a close. This can result in your parent being upset, and even […]
Top 10 Tips & Tricks for Caregivers
Being a caregiver can take a lot of time and sometimes be frustrating. However, you’re certainly not alone in your endeavors. There are around 43.5 million caregivers in the United States. And, one of the wonderful things about living in today’s world of technology is that sharing the experience is easier than ever. There are […]
What’s So Bad About Trans Fats?
As a family caregiver, one of the things you may do for your aging relative is prepare meals. No doubt you do your best to cook meals that are both healthy and delicious. That can be challenging because of all the rules health experts say you need to follow for food. One of the things […]
Helping Hands Homecare, Inc. Receives Full Accreditation Status from the Commission on Accreditation for Home Care
Helping Hands Homecare, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has received full accreditation status from the Commission on Accreditation for Home Care (CAHC). Helping Hands has always been extremely diligent about delivering the best possible care to its clients and is proud that our policies and procedures, as well as our quality of care, […]
