Getting the Home Care Help You Need
It can be stressful taking the first steps towards getting the help you need for your loved one wishing to remain at home. You have likely contemplated long and hard about getting help for your loved one. You might be feeling overwhelmed and extremely stressed regarding bringing in home care. Maybe you're not sure what to do or who to talk to. However, what you do know is that you...
Home Activities to Try with a Loved One Suffering from Dementia
Let’s get one thing straight, caring for someone with dementia is definitely a difficult task. It requires constant learning for you to keep pace with the changes your loved one is facing every day. Part of this learning experience requires caregivers to find interactive ways to keep their loved ones’ days and minds full of positive activity. A successful strategy to help improve this is to approach it with less...
Are You Considering Home Care?
At some point in your life you reach the realization that you are not as young as you used to be and you can’t do it all anymore. So now what? You may be thinking about moving to a retirement residence. A lot of us consider moving to retirement homes because they seem to have it all — activities, the interaction with other people, all your meals cooked for you,...
The 10 Most Common Complaints About Home Care and How We Deal with Them
Common Complaints I was recently reading the webpage Home Care Pulse and came across an article listing the top ten complaints that clients have with regards to their home care companies. Despite the fact that Home Care Pulse is an American site, I think that many of these complaints and issues can be relatable for Canadian patients too. As a home care company vowing to always be better, I want to...
Nine Strategies to Help a Parent Who Refuses Care
It can be extremely difficult when you know your parent requires in-home care, but they are resistant to receiving any help. I experienced this with my own mother — she was against getting any sort of help around the house and told me that she was fine. She was a strong woman, who had always been independent, and she did not need anyone other than me to help her. However,...