Long COVID has become a part of our everyday life, unfortunately. Long COVID is the term commonly used to describe the ongoing symptoms related to a COVID-19 infection. It can last for a few weeks or even several months. These … [Read more...]
Spotlight on Financial Abuse Toward Seniors
Elderly individuals can often be in a vulnerable spot. Because of the health issues that can impact older adults, they are in a position of dependence upon others. This is why the need for senior care exists, right? But there’s … [Read more...]
RSV and Senior Citizen Health
There’s a good chance that you’ve seen the new commercials on television aimed at raising awareness about RSV. They feature some older adults participating in a variety of activities. Then, a high pitched noise with some text that says … [Read more...]
Doing a Better Job of Helping Caregivers
Being a caregiver is one of the hardest things that you can do with your family. Caring for an older loved one is not just tough physically–it is an around the clock job, after all. It’s also mentally taxing. Watching a loved one struggle … [Read more...]
When Care Gets Complicated
Senior care is not easy. It’s a turbulent time for families, and it’s a complicated topic to begin with. There are so many choices out there, finding the right one can seem like an impossible task. But although senior care can … [Read more...]
Physical Activity Becomes More Important as We Age
A study from the American Heart Association once again confirms how important exercise and physical activity is for seniors. The study found that those over the age of 65 who struggled with physical function were far more likely to suffer … [Read more...]
How Does Alzheimer’s Progress?
A team of scientists now believe that they have a better understanding of how Alzheimer’s disease progresses through the brain. It all revolves around a protein referred to as tau, and how it transforms into a diseased … [Read more...]
COVID and Nursing Home Staff
A team of researchers based out of the University of Pennsylvania found that overall, nursing home staffing levels remained fairly steady throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. By looking at payroll data, this team found that although some parts … [Read more...]
Is There Something Wrong with For Profit Care?
Lately, there has been a lot of speculation that there are certain factors that are making the issues that the senior care industry as a whole is facing even worse. One of the problems that has been flouted in the media is that the for … [Read more...]
Fighting Abuse in the Care Industry
After all that we have gone through as a country over the last year, instances of racism and violence still occur with regularity. We see that unkind acts can occur not just against people of different cultures and ethnicities, but also … [Read more...]
Care Workers Feeling the Brunt of the Pandemic
The pandemic has hit us as a country hard. It can be easy to semi-dismiss this and say something like, “everyone’s being hit hard. Just because I’m stressed and tired doesn’t mean that I have it bad. Everyone’s in the same boat.” And while … [Read more...]
New ALS Medication Showing Great Potential
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, often referred to as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease (because of the high profile nature of the former Major League Baseball legend), is a fatal degenerative disease that impacts primarily adults between the ages … [Read more...]