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Being a caregiver can be many things: Rewarding, fulfilling, gratifying. For most caregivers, being there when a loved one needs you is a core value and something you wish to provide. But it can also be frustrating, exhausting, and stressful. A caregiver is anyone who provides help to another person in need, such as an [...]
Lift chairs can be a very beneficial device to add to your home. They allow you to relax and recline in your own home without the fear that you will not be able to get back into a standing position. It sounds like such a simple pleasure to be able to enjoy right? With that [...]
Take the First Fall Seriously Given the fact that one fall doubles the chance of another fall, the best time to take the issue head-on is immediately following that first incident. This may sound straightforward, but it’s a mentally and emotionally stressful time for the senior and family caregivers, and [...]
Alzheimer’s disease can take a giant toll on family life. It can have a large affect on adult children, spouses and siblings, but most importantly, it can have an effect on younger children and teenagers as well. Often times, children are unaware of diseases for elders such as Alzheimer’s and dementia and are very unaware [...]
Sometimes care giving can be a burden. You give up part of your life while juggling a full-time job and children. You get exhausted, stressed and depressed trying to balance your life while dealing with the emotional and physical tolls of caring for a loved who is either ungrateful or dealing with cognitive decline and [...]
Caregiving can be tough, especially when you’re unprepared or your senior or disabled loved one is resistant to care. However, it can be just as difficult if you let the past control your care giving present. Our past interactions with loved ones can affect our responses to calls for care. A shaky relationship with a [...]
Being disabled or elderly can often make it difficult to navigate around your own home. Accessibility and mobility become difficult, and you become prone to more accidents in your bathroom, on the stairs or even at your front door. Besides installing our assistive technology products in your home such as wheelchair lifts, platforms and ramps, [...]
According to AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving, about 25 percent of U.S. caregivers fall between the age of 18 and 34. However, many of them have little to no experience with serious illness, making health care decisions or dealing with health insurance. Millennials are also known to be long-distance caregivers, as their new [...]
Alzheimer’s and dementia can be scary to a spouse or loved one, especially when they are unprepared. One is more likely to develop these diseases if their thinking and memory is on the decline, especially when they have nothing to boost or maintain these cognitive function. As your senior gets older, it is important to [...]
You never really see it coming and then it happens. Your spouse or loved one has a tragic accident and is now physically disabled. You go through the difficulties together of trying to relearn navigating around the house, installing the proper technology and resources in your home for accessibility and even counseling for how they [...]
