The low down on Home Health Care:

The best elder care solution is when your parents get the required support in a friendly and familiar environment and what can be more ideal than their own home? So whether it is help in applying new bandages after a surgery or administering I.V. fluids or just help with daily walks in the park, the health care professionals will come to the house and provide the required service. They also usually have portable and non-portable medical diagnostic...

Many consumers buy medical supplies online. With a simple search a person has access to hundreds of websites and a variety of products that meet their needs. Often, online shoppers forget that removing the personal aspect from a sale also eliminates the “try before you buy” experience. When you choose to buy a lift chair online your first objective should be to avoid mistakes. Knowing the five most common mistakes made when buying lift chairs will help you.

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1.    You have absolute choice on which home health agency you use.

Did you know you ultimately are the Absolute Decision Maker on who you want to use for therapy and nursing services through home health? While you need to utilize a Medicare Certified Agency to have Medicare and other Payors to pay for services, you have the right to use any home health agency that you want regardless of who currently services the assisted living, hospital or senior independent...

New parents face many problems and issues that they are expected to understand and deal with immediately. Unfortunately, newborns do not come with an instruction book so here are a few topics that you may need to know about.

Bathing your baby: Until your baby’s umbilical cord falls off one to two weeks after their birth, only give her sponge baths. A cotton ball or cotton swab dampened with alcohol can help to dry the umbilical stump or follow your pediatrician’s...

People now have a much longer life expectancy than they did a few decades ago, and in most developed countries the average person commonly lives beyond 70 years of age. As they reach their later years, people are inevitably more likely to need the aid of others, yet they still want to keep their independence.

The majority of people do not feel comfortable being under the constant care of others. There is a solution to this problem though. A way for elderly people to live as...

As the state of North Carolina steadily ages, more and more seniors are requiring assistance and daily care.  This care can come in the form of moving to an assisted living facility, or hiring a company to provide in home care.  More and more seniors are actually choosing the latter – in home care – as a way to maintain their independence and remain at home, while still receiving professional attention and the benefits of assisted living.  In home care...

When it comes to operating an assisted living facility, there are several things that you have to keep in mind. Successful operation of such facilities requires a balance of reimbursement demands, customer service, regulatory, and management. As an operation manager, keeping this balance is going to be a big challenge for you. In order to deal with this challenge, you must be proficient in managing budgets, human resources, training, capital improvements, and in handling costs. Besides...

When teenagers start driving there are always a stressed parent around for a while.  A good couple of years down the line that teenager becomes the stressed one, when his or her aging parents refuse to stop driving around.

Elderly people might feel they will loose their independence if they can’t drive their own cars anymore.  All older people aren’t the same and some of them can comfortably continue driving well into their seventies and even beyond that....

Alzheimer's disease affects approximately 26 million people worldwide. In the initial stages, the symptoms of this disease become apparent through loss of short term memory for recent events. It then develops into an inability to remember and perform the Activities of Daily Living (ADLs).

As the disease progresses, the symptoms worsen and manifest in the following forms:

* Mood swings

* Language breakdown

* Long term memory loss

In the initial stages, the...

Residential home elevatorsare valuable accessibility devices for mobility impaired members in your family. Though labeled a luxury item in the past, residential home elevators have now become an intrinsic part of multistoried buildings. These are helpful devices not only for the aged individuals, but also for any person who has to frequently move between various floors in a building.

The key advantage of using residential home elevators is that you can avoid possible...