When your parent or elderly loved one is feeling lonely and is in danger of becoming isolated, you can avail yourself of the help of companion care and have a care worker spend time with them regularly to make sure they are all right. If they have let their home fall into disrepair because the
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On the surface, it might not seem like a big deal. Your parent or elderly loved one is having trouble keeping things in order around the house. Maybe vacuuming is too hard on their back, so you come over once a week and do it. Problem solved, right? You’re a good son or daughter and
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The baby boom generation was the result of a population spike in the years and decades after World War II. The boomers are now reaching their senior years, meaning we now have a larger elderly population than ever before. What’s more, great advances in medicine and technology mean that we can live longer, on average,
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For far too long, we thought of physical health as separate from mental health, if we thought about mental health at all. But we now have a much clearer idea of how the two are connected. Mental issues can have a great effect on one’s health and that is often how they manifest or, at
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