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Helping Your Parent Maintain an Organized Home

Cleanliness is next to godliness and next to that is being organized. It’s great for your loved one to have an organized system at home because more often than not clutter at home can become clutter in their mind and clutter in their lives. You would want to do your best to avoid that for...

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5 Water Exercises to Increase Mobility

Water provides an often ideal environment for seniors to exercise, grow strength, and improve mobility and balance. Water provides just enough buoyancy to support a fraction of your elderly loved one’s body weight and just enough resistance. This makes it much easier to exercise in the water, strengthen muscles and improve your loved one’s flexibility....

10 Exercises to Help Seniors with Mobility

Falls and their resulting injuries are a major concern for our senior loved ones. We can attribute most falls to gradually declining strength, balance, and mobility because of inactivity. The good news is this is preventable with daily exercise. Depending on the state of your loved one’s health and fitness level, some common, easy-to-do exercises...

The Benefits of Safety Grab Bars

Are you living with an elderly loved one as his or her primary caregiver? You might have noticed that your family member struggles a bit around the house when performing tasks like toileting, showering, or even just getting up from a comfy chair. Grab bars are a handy home addition that can help improve a...

Additions to Make a Home Safe for Seniors

As our loved ones age it’s normal for their homes to need safety additions. These new additions will help your parents or grandparents stay in their beloved homes while reducing the risk of slip-and-fall accidents. Knowing these simple additions are in the home will also give you peace of mind knowing your loved one has...

Exercises That Help Prevent Falls

With old age come several things; some pleasant and others (like gradually failing health) not so pleasant. Deteriorating coordination and physical condition puts a lot of senior citizens at risk of tripping and injuring themselves. While it isn’t entirely possible to negate the occasional trip, there are exercises you can count on to improve balance and...

How to Create a Daily Living Care Plan

Aging is a fact of life. A proper long-term care plan will go a long way in ensuring that your elderly loved ones live the highest quality of life at every stage. When your family decides it’s time to come together to care for an aging loved one, there are some basics that you should...

Keeping Your Loved One Safe in the Kitchen

As our loved ones gracefully age, we may need to reassess home safety, which includes kitchen safety. Many seniors use the area to socialize as well as prepare meals. While your aging loved ones may still have the energy to make special recipes, they may face new hazardous challenges around the kitchen as they continue...

Strengthening Your Daily Living Care Plan

Taking a simple walk around the neighborhood and attempting to eat healthy foods are two of the most common New Year’s resolutions; however, as our loved ones age, these simple tasks (and many others) could become increasingly difficult goals to achieve. How do you know if your loved one is starting to strugglge? You can...

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