Management of Incontinence in Seniors: Tips to Help

While not unusual in older adults, urinary incontinence is a challenging condition to manage, impacting daily life in many ways, and often leading to reduced self-confidence and assurance along with the reduction of enjoyable activities. Yet it’s crucial to understand that bladder control problems are not something that must simply be accepted as a normal […]

Transitional Care at Home: Provides Help After a Hospital Stay

After a medical procedure or hospitalization, the words we look forward to hearing most are, “Here are your discharge papers – you’re free to go home now!” What a feeling of relief there is in coming through the front door, sinking into a favorite chair, and relaxing. However, there are often a variety of tasks […]

Home Modification for Older Adults: Create a Dementia-Friendly Space

The daily worries of providing care for a senior loved one with dementia are continually changing. Today, the challenge may be frustration because of the lack of ability to communicate effectively. Next week, it may be wandering and wanting to go “home.” There may be sleepless nights if sundowning is an issue, or aggressive actions […]

Help Prevent Eye Damage in Seniors by Focusing on Ocular Health

How to prevent eye damage in seniors Those of us in the age 40+ demographic know how it feels to start to struggle with small print, finding the need to start wearing reading glasses, increasing the font size on our electronic devices, or holding books at arm’s length to attempt to minimize blurring. Getting older […]

Dehydration in the Elderly: Don’t Overlook This Health Risk

During the warmest time of the year, keeping up with proper hydration is necessary, especially for older adults. In fact, approximately 50% of all older adults are chronically under-hydrated, according to a recently available UCLA research study, which could lead to an assortment of health risks, including kidney stones, urinary tract infection, and also a […]

Summertime Safety: Tips for Seniors

How to Keep Our Senior Loved Ones Safe and Healthy in Summertime The longer days of summer mean more time for swimming, family cookouts, gardening, and all of those other wonderful seasonal outdoor activities. However, it also means an elevated risk for a variety of health concerns for senior loved ones, who are more prone […]

Elderly Drivers: Tips for Safety

Remember that feeling as a teen when you first climbed behind the steering wheel, the great excitement of being in a position to go anywhere you wanted? The freedom that the ability to drive offers us is beyond compare! Yet once we get older, multiple factors may come into play that impact the capacity for […]

DIY Home Safety Assessment to Keep Seniors Safe While Aging in Place

With the majority of seniors choosing to continue to live at home during the course of aging, it is important to complete an extensive home safety assessment to identify and repair any dangers and make certain the seniors you love remain secure and safe. The easiest way to do this is to begin outside the […]

Head Trauma in Seniors May Lead to Traumatic Brain Injuries

When you think of a traumatic brain injury (TBI), your initial thought may be a sports-related accident, such as a football player crashing head-first into a rival, or even a head-on collision in a car accident – something less likely to impact the elderly. Nevertheless, the prevalence of head trauma in seniors is much more […]

Home Modification Tips to Keep Bathrooms Safe for Seniors

Even though you may consider your bathroom to be a safe place where you can relax and rest with a soothing bath or invigorating shower at the end of an extended day, for older adults, the bathroom is actually probably the most dangerous room in the house. With slippery floors that are even slipperier when […]