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Medication Maintenance Tips for Caregivers

Managing medications can be difficult to do, especially if you’re a senior caregiver. Helping someone else remember to...

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Home Health Aides: 7 FAQs you need to Know

If you’ve ever wondered exactly what a home health aide does, or what qualifies as home care in...

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Caregivers: How well are you Sleeping?

Did you know that sleep problems can be contagious? Not the way that colds are, of course the...

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Three Reasons why Caregiver Wellness is More Than Being Physically Fit

If you are caring for a loved one or client, you are likely aware that providing care can...

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Find Peace of Mind by Financially Planning for Long-Term Care

For seniors and family members, planning for health care typically revolves around planning for Medicare coverage. But for...

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9 Ways to Reduce Caregiver Stress

Being a caregiver is one of the biggest and most challenging jobs in the world. While it can...

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5 Tips for Improving Home Safety for the Visually Impaired

In 2004, some 3.3 million people over the age of 40 were living with blindness or low vision....

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Caregivers: Honor your loved one’s end of life preferences

In the early eighties after having suffered a heart attack my grandmother wrote a letter. The letter outlined...

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Pharmacists as Caregivers

A few years ago, my father-in-law experienced a major medical crisis and as a result he was hospitalized....

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Caregiver Wellness: Bathing Strategies for Frontline and Family Caregivers

Three years ago, my mother-in-law (“Mom”) was hospitalized after she contracted a terrible strain of influenza. At the...