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Oct 2015
Elder Father Recognizing Need for a Home Care Aide Recognizing need for Home Care is an important step to accepting some in-home assistance. Following back problems and having his daughter stay with him, an older parent recognizes the inconvenience to his daughter and her family. He decides that the next time he needs help at ...
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Oct 2015
Grief is often felt by Spousal Caregivers when loved one is still with us All people react to illness, caregiving, grief and loss in very individual ways. Even when circumstances are similar, and an ending comes into focus, each person in the family and those people all around them, will experience grief differently and act ...
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Oct 2015
Medicare Open Enrollment Period Medicare Open enrollment is here. Time for American seniors aged 65 and older to make changes to their Medicare health coverage or switch to Medicare from managed plans. Medicare Open enrollment is from Oct. 15th through Dec. 7th, 2015. There are several parts to Medicare and they are not free. Traditional ...
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Sep 2015
Appliances: Helpful Tips for Seniors Appliances need servicing from time to time. For all of us, having a fridge, washer, dryer etc. break means expense and time waiting on the repairman. Our friend, Fred Kaye of A-1 Appliance & Refrigeration Service in Palme Beach county, Florida has been kind enough to share some professional tips to help ...
Aging adults are hit hard with Flu ...
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Sep 2015
Overtime and Minimum Wage are new Changes in Home Care Overtime pay is now Labor Law for Home Care workers. Private duty Home Care changes significantly on Oct. 13, 2015. The filings have been going back and forth between the DOL, U.S. Court of Appeals and various concerned parties. In South Florida, by and large ...
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Aug 2015
Age in Place is the Choice for Most Seniors Age in Place is the new way of saying, remaining in your own home. We can count on some physiological changes to occur from our sixties through our nineties, and beyond. Vision for instance frequently becomes less acute with age. There may be some gait and ...
Millions of Family Caregivers help the 5 Million Americans with Alzheimer’s Dementia Alzheimer’s dementia is the most common form of dementia. Caregivers are mostly family members; spouses and adult children. Dementia is the catch all phrase for memory loss and cognitive impairment. Alzheimer’s dementia progresses over many years. Short term and long term memory is affected ...
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Aug 2015
Senior Vaccines: Flu, Pneumonia and Shingles Senior vaccines are a marvel of the 20th century health care and have been improving into the 21st century. Older Adults are often at risk for some common illnesses due to a lowered immune system which accompanies aging. The truism, “An ounce of Prevention is worth a pound of cure” ...
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Aug 2015
As reported in both the Palm Beach Post and the Sun-Sentinel. Palm Beach county seniors are curious about many of the websites they here about. What began as a couple of presentations, such as “Online Dating”, for Boomers and Older Adults/Retirees and Boomers has now grown to a six-part program in which each segment can ...
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