Seniors and Diabetes: How to Best Manage the Condition for Your Best Life
Checking sugar levels. Injecting insulin. Carefully watching your diet. If this describes a normal day in your life, or that of an older adult you love, you know firsthand the obstacles that come with a diagnosis of diabetes. As November is Diabetes Awareness Month, the aging care team at Absolute Companion Care is pleased to […]
Home Modification for a Family Member With Alzheimer’s
The day-to-day challenges of providing care for a family member with Alzheimer’s are continually evolving. Today, the challenge could be frustration with the lack of ability to communicate effectively. Next week, it may be wandering and seeking to go “home.” There may be sleepless nights if sundowning is an issue, or aggressive actions and words […]
Common Signs and Symptoms of MS
Its cause is unknown, but impacting over one million people in the U.S. alone, multiple sclerosis can result in an extensive and unpredictable range of symptoms and severity. What we do know is that women are much more likely to develop MS, and that every person will experience it in different ways, with symptoms changing […]
Reduce Eye Injuries in Seniors with Regular Eye Exams
Those of us within the age 40+ demographic know how it feels to start to have trouble with small print, finding the need to begin wearing reading glasses, increasing the font size on our electronic devices, or holding books at arm’s length to try to cut down on blurring. Getting older and becoming challenged with […]
Questions to Ask When Looking for In-Home Care Assistance
Discovering the right care solution for a senior family member is one of the most important, as well as overwhelming, decisions you’ll face. Ensuring the safety and security of the older adult is extremely important, but there are some other considerations as well, for example, if the older adult’s quality of life and capacity to […]
The Importance of Being a Safe Senior Driver: Tips for Older Adults
Do you remember that feeling as a teen when you first climbed behind the steering wheel, that great excitement of being in a position to go wherever you wanted? The freedom that having the ability to drive offers us is beyond compare! Nevertheless, as we grow older, numerous factors will come into play that impact […]
Older Adults Often Don’t Report Adverse RX Side Effects
Anyone who’s taken prescription drugs understands that they normally come with a thorough list of possible side effects to watch for. While prescriptions are, obviously, designed to help us, the problems which may be a consequence of these negative reactions can be more severe than the benefits we obtain. For senior loved ones, almost all […]
Home Modification Tips to Improve Senior Safety While Aging in Place
With the majority of older adults opting to continue to live at home throughout aging, it is crucial to complete an extensive home assessment to find and repair any hazards to ensure senior safety. The simplest way to accomplish this is to start outside the home and move your way in, room by room, visualizing […]
Hearing Loss in Seniors: Signs, Causes, and How to Cope
Isolated. Misunderstood. Left out. These are simply a few of the numerous emotions that are common in people with hearing loss, who find it difficult to continue to maintain social connections with friends and family, who find it difficult to communicate with them. Hearing loss in seniors is fairly common, for a plethora of reasons: […]
Traumatic Brain Injuries Are a Growing Concern Among Older Adults
When you think about a traumatic brain injury (TBI), your first thought is probably a sports-related accident, such as a football player crashing head-first into a rival, or possibly a head-on collision in a car accident – something less likely to affect seniors. Nevertheless, the prevalence of traumatic brain injuries in the elderly is far […]