In your senior years, one of your major tasks may be to find a nursing home. In fact, finding and moving into the right caring home is the key factor in determining the quality of your life. By choosing the right care home for your needs, you're entering an environment especially designed for people with your particular circumstances. Your new care home is a place where you can relax and not worry about the practicalities of daily life. You just need to focus on being as happy as...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a federal agency that is part of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, annually ranks the 15,000-plus <a title=Nursing homes at Great Places! rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/article_exit_link');" href= >nursing homes</a> that participate in Medicare or Medicaid programs.  Last December, the agency released its first quality ratings for these...

Aging is a natural process and hence the need for elder care is growing rapidly. For a nation, as time passes, today’s young generation is slowly “growing” to the old age leading to a fast approaching retirement stages. Thus there is a requirement of both medical and non medical senior care facilities. Although the services available are various in general there are basically three types of elder care assistance.

Home services comprise assistance for...

There are a lot of things that you may not be able to do with arthritis pain. But there are some recommended exercises that strengthen, improve flexibility and even relieve arthritis pain. Incorporating these moves into your everyday life will make it easy to keep it up on a regular basis. In turn, participating in the activities that you enjoy can be not only therapeutic mentally, but physically as well. Just a few simple changes can help you live your life to the fullest.

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As people grow older and reach mid sixties, their capacity to take care of themselves becomes goes down. Elderly people mostly have impaired mobility, low energy and less thinking power. It makes living independently more difficult.

Caring for ageing and sick parents and elderly members of family becomes too taxing for adult children and leads to lot of friction at home. Parents and elderly people, who are supposed to get more support and care...

If you’re fortunate enough to grow to a ripe old age you’ll inevitably be faced with scores of life changing situations. Some are oh so subtle and others slam you squarely across the head. Growing old comes slowly almost interminably slow but when it finally arrives it ascends like a black mist descending from above.

Elderly parents arrive first at this marker set in time and through them we see ourselves in just a few years more. With extended age...

The Continental Care Center at Seymour, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation community in Seymour, Iowa, continues to raise the quality-of-life bar in the long-term care arena. On October 27th, 2009, the residents and staff joined forces to make popcorn balls in preparation for the upcoming Halloween night festivities. Lorie Jellison, Assistant Administrator/Activities, who organized the event stated, "It was an amazingly fun time! The staff and many of the residents pitched in and...

The small town of Seymour, Iowa, located about 20 minutes from Centerville, Iowa near the Missouri border, experienced change. The small skilled-care community in the town was on the verge of closure, when Centerville entrepreneur, Bill Burch, the owner of Commercial Resources, Inc., with the help of Morgan Cline, took a project under their hands to revamp the center. Their leadership combined with the leadership of Beth Owens, the administrator combined with the unusual dedication of a...

In the arena of senior skilled care, where State of Iowa regulations are forcing many small skilled care communities to close, The Continental Care Center at Seymour, located in Seymour, Iowa are bucking the trend. Morgan Cline and Bill Burch purchased the community in an effort to prevent its planned closing. Their leadership combined with the leadership of Beth Owens, the administrator combined with the unusual dedication of a crew pulled together from the deep rural rolling hills of...

Winter and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

As winter draws near, people with respiratory problems are waiting with bated breath. The winter months often cause an exacerbation or acute worsening of COPD symptoms, often leading to other illnesses and even hospitalizations. I have seen first hand that a large percentage of hospital admissions this time of year are COPD patients. Even my mother suffers from COPD.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease...