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Resources and insights for Bay Area families caring for aging loved ones.
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Senior Health & Safety

Heart Surgery Recovery: Guidelines to Help Bring Healing and Comfort

Every day, thousands of heart surgeries take place across the United States. From open heart surgery to valve repair, there are a variety of procedures available to help people maintain an active lifestyle in spite of a cardiac event.
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Alzheimer's Disease

Tips for Managing Dementia and Incontinence

Dementia care calls for both compassion and creativity to deal with an assortment of challenging behaviors and effects, and that is particularly true with regards to incontinence, something that is exceedingly common in Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. These tried-and-true approaches are generally helpful in lessening the effect of incontinence and protecting against an escalation of emotions in someone you adore with Alzheimer’s disease.
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Senior Health & Safety

The Benefits of Exercise for Parkinson’s Patients

The results of maintaining some form of exercise regimen throughout aging are tremendous; however, for persons with Parkinson’s, it might truly be a game-changer. Several studies are revealing direct links between exercise for Parkinson’s patients and the progression of the disease, such as the largest clinical study up to now, in which patients who exercised at least 2½ hours per week gained a greater total wellbeing compared to those who refrained from physical activity.
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Senior Health & Safety

6 Crisis Resources to Help Seniors and Caregivers Through the COVID-19 Pandemic

Recognizing the best place to turn with regard to the latest, most reliable info on COVID-19, particularly as it relates to the elderly and family caregivers who provide care assistance for them, is important – and can be difficult. Because of so many crisis resources and different opinions on this extraordinary subject, we wanted to help make it simpler to locate what you need by compiling the subsequent list of reliable resources.
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Senior Health & Safety

How Do People Get Mesothelioma?

Mesothelioma is a rare cancer that develops after being exposed to a toxic substance called asbestos. Many people were unknowingly exposed to asbestos for the majority of the 20th century. It usually takes between 20 and 50 years for mesothelioma to develop after exposure, making the disease more common for seniors than younger age groups.
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Family Caregiving

High Tech Solutions Benefit Family Caregivers and Their Senior Loved Ones

Today’s seniors are inundated with an incredible quantity of high-tech products geared toward increasing their independence and safety, while offering life enhancement.
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Family Caregiving

Feeling Overwhelmed? Here’s What You Need to Know When Caring for Aging Parents.

Are your aging parents in need of help to ensure safety at home? Are you simultaneously trying to accommodate caring for children and family at home? Then you have the distinction of being a part of the sandwich generation – a demographic of folks, for the most part in their 30s or 40s, who are responsible for raising their own children and caring for their senior parents.
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Senior Finances

Accessing Long-Term Care Insurance Benefits

Long-term care insurance benefits can provide exceptional peace of mind, but accessing the policy benefits can turn out to be a confusing experience for older adults and their loved ones. To help families navigate the process, Hillendale Home Care, the experts in home health care in Walnut Creek, provides the following tips.
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Senior Health & Safety

Still Having Trouble With Daily Activities After Recovering from COVID-19? Try Home Care.

Life has changed dramatically for all of us since the COVID-19 pandemic began, but if you have tested positive for the virus and experienced any or all of the myriad of possible symptoms, you understand how serious it is and how difficult recovery can be.
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