November is Long Term Care Awareness Month. But if we’re honest, it seems like the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has made all of us very aware of long term care every month this year. The phrase, long term care, gets used a lot. So what does it mean? Simply put, it’s the...
Mental Health: It’s Okay Not To Be Okay May is Mental Health Awareness Month and frankly, we can’t think of a more appropriate time to be talking about mental health than right now, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a nation, we are anxious and stressed....
Fall Sensors and Fall Detection Devices: A Primer “Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.” We’ve all seen the TV commercial that ran in the late 1980s. It played on a fear of falling. Aging seniors are helpless, according to this ad. Aging seniors aren’t helpless. But...
Is it time for home care? How will I know? Should we be worried? These are the questions thousands of families ask every week. We see a loved one—usually mom or dad—and they don’t look like they used to. You start to wonder why you didn’t notice the...
Are You Getting The Most From Medicare? With rising healthcare costs stress families across the country, turning 65 may feel a bit like entering the promised land—only milk and honey is represented by the availability of Medicare. There’s no doubt that this federal...
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