Providing Care in the Middle Stage of Parkinson’s Disease: Part 2 of 3
A Parkinson’s disease diagnosis affects loved ones as well as the person diagnosed. Understanding what to expect as the illness advances is vital to being prepared for the changes in the future and to making the most of every day. Over the course of our three-part series, we will be posting information about what to […]
Long-Distance Care: The Many Benefits of Partnering with a Senior Care Agency
It is said that distance makes the heart grow fonder, but long-distance care for aging parents may cause additional feelings: worry, concern, and helplessness, to mention a few. It’s hard to know exactly how your senior loved ones are doing through phone calls, video chats, emails, and letters. There are things you can do, however, […]
How In-Home Care Services and Hospice Care Services Can Work Together
If you ask people who are within the last six months of their lives what is most important to them, you are likely to hear answers such as: Maintaining control over which services will likely be provided To be free from pain Emotional and spiritual support To remain at home In-home hospice care meets all […]
Social Wellness Benefits for Older Adults and How Home Care Can Help
Living through over a year of a global pandemic taught us not to ever take for granted the small but extremely significant things in life: shared laughter, hugging our friends and family, a dinner date in our favorite restaurant. We discovered firsthand that social wellness benefits are to be valued, and just how lost and […]
Nutrition 101: The Importance of Healthy Eating for Seniors
Remember family dinners at Grandma’s house? The tantalizing scents wafting through the kitchen would draw everyone in to assemble at the table to take pleasure in her home cooking. There were always lots of leftovers for future meals or late-night snacks. Yet for a number of older adults, these kinds of family meals are infrequent. […]
Managing Long-Term Illness With the Help of Home Care
Did you ever get up in the morning and realize, as soon as you got out of bed, that it was going to be “one of those days?” Maybe you slept through your alarm, tripped over the dog, and then remembered you were out of coffee. These small inconveniences, however, pale in comparison to what […]
Understanding the Benefits of Home Care and How It Can Help a Senior Loved One
It wasn’t long ago when there was a general assumption that when we grow older, we’ll naturally need to move into a nursing home or assisted living facility. There is now a greater understanding that living at home throughout aging with in-home support is oftentimes a realistic option. There’s also additional information since the pandemic […]
Six Ways In-Home Care Services Can Help Reduce Isolation in Seniors
Isolation. Fear. Loneliness. The pandemic has wreaked havoc on all of us in one way or another, but for seniors especially, the seclusion required to ensure safety from COVID-19 has had harmful effects on emotional, physical and mental wellbeing. At Absolute Companion Care, a provider of top-rated home health care in Towson and the surrounding […]
Long Term Care Planning for Elderly Parents
Being together over the holidays is a great time to get caught up and the perfect time to have discussions about long term care planning with elderly parents. Having an open and honest conversation around care needs, home modifications and finances is important to help meet the wishes of senior loved ones. Absolute Companion Care […]
Helping Seniors with Pandemic Fatigue Cope
It’s been more than six months since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The restrictions which have been set up to emphasize safety can begin to wear on all of us, and while there’s a normal longing to want to “return to normal,” there’s a new concern: seniors with pandemic fatigue. Pandemic fatigue stems from attempting to […]