When Home Care Isn’t Enough
When home care isn’t enough: how to know when your elderly parent might need more than home care. Evaluating home care and alternative senior care options.
Five Surefire Ways to Find the Perfect ALF for Dad
ALF research tips: five ways to find the perfect ALF for your aging parent. Step-by-step guide to finding the right ALF, be confident in your choice.
Why Pursuing Help for Your Parent Feels Like an Epic Failure
Caregiving tips: why pursuing help for your aging parents feels like a failure and why it’s not! How to rethink caregiving and get the right help.
Five Things I Learned When Mom Was Hospitalized
Lessons learned from a hospitalization. What we learned was lifesaving when Mom was hospitalized and why to use a hospital advocate.
How Do I Know if Mom Has Alzheimer’s?
How do I know if Mom has Alzheimer’s? Alzheimer’s v dementia v old age. What are the symptoms and how is Alzheimer’s disease diagnosed? What do to next.
The Most Important Asset in Your Life
What’s the most important asset in your life? The answer is probably family. Here’s how to protect and nurture that asset through family caregiving.
This is Why Families Should Interview Caregivers
The importance of screening caregivers and how to interview a caregiver and get the best match for your senior home care needs.
How to Disagree with Your Doctor without Hurting Your Care
How to disagree with your doctor respectfully. Being afraid to disagree with your doctor may hurt your care more. Here’s how to disagree with your doctor.
It’s Never too Late to Get Started with a Healthy Lifestyle: Getting Old is No Excuse
You can benefit from a healthy lifestyle at any age. Add some healthy habits and make simple changes to start feeling better and age wisely and well.
How To Prepare Your Home for a Senior Care Worker
When you get senior care at home, here are a few simple ways to prepare your home so the senior care worker can do their best for you.
What Clients Want from Their In Home Caregiver in 280 Characters or Less
In their own words, what clients want from their in home caregiver. The top qualities and skills of an in home caregiver and tips to get the best care.
How I Got My Mom to Move to an ALF
Our story of getting Mom to move to an ALF. We fought and struggled until we found a better way to approach the situation. Lessons and tips you can use too.
How to Get Respite When You’re Overworked with Aging Parents
Overworked with helping aging parents? How to get respite and help them while also helping yourself. Tips and information on respite care.
Should Mom Have a Female or Male Caregiver?
Should your parent have a female or male caregiver? How to determine the best caregiver to meet their needs and some families’ stories.
Help with Your ALF, Nursing Home or Independent Living Staffing
EasyLiving offers the perfect solution to your ALF or nursing home staffing needs. Providing high quality staffing for Pinellas County care facilities.
These Little Routine Changes Can Keep You Safe
As you get older, making a few, tiny changes to your routine can keep you safe. Older adults who want to live independently should take these steps.
How Diversity Makes a Home Care Agency Better
Why diversity in a home care is a great thing, and how to build a diverse, strong home care agency. Home care demographics, needs, and the best ways to support a diverse team.
Medicaid Personal Needs Allowance Increasing
Beginning July 1st Florida will be increasing the Medicaid personal needs allowance. Read more about what this means and how it will help Florida seniors on Medicaid.
Nine Signs You Will Be Able to Age in Place
Nine signs you will be able to age in place. These indicators mean a strong chance you can age in place in the comfort of home versus going to a nursing home or ALF (and solutions if things don’t look good).
What I Learned from Hiring a Geriatric Care Manager for My Mom
Families share stories of lessons learned hiring and working with a geriatric care manager. What you should know, how a geriatric care manager can help, how to know who to hire.
Here’s the Proper Way to Plan for a Hurricane
A hurricane plan often fails to take into account the harsh realities, especially for elders and those with disabilities. After many years of experience, we share the proper way to plan for a hurricane.
Four Ways You May Get Help with Your Medicare Costs
Four ways you may be able to get help with Medicare costs. Find out about Medicare help programs and getting discounts on Medicare costs.
Six Successful Strategies When Your Elderly Parent Refuses Help
Six strategies you can use when your elderly parent refuses help or care. Ways to help aging parents who say there isn’t a problem and resists your efforts to help.
What Caregivers Want in 140 Characters or Less
What caregivers want…is simple, but too often overlooked. Caregivers are in high demand and face challenging work providing the most personal care. How to support caregiver job satisfaction.