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What is Palliative Care and who needs it?
July 15, 2016
Palliative care, sometimes refereed to as hospice, is specialized medical care for people who suffer from serious illness. It is focused mainly on providing the patient with relief from the symptoms and stress of their illness and thereby improving their remaining quality of life. Doctors tend to recommend palliative care for those who suffer chronic, […]
Aging in Place vs. Aging at Home
June 10, 2016
Traditionally aging in place refereed to staying in one’s own home while maintaining a high quality of life. We have now broken out the terms into aging in place, and aging at home. It may sound simple enough, aging in place is aging in a non-healthcare environment, and aging at home is staying put and […]
Caregiving Challenges your Parents Didn’t Have
May 17, 2016
It is the natural progression of life that as we age, so do our parents. As we balance our full time jobs, relationships and raising children, we are now also faced with the daunting prospect of caring for our parents. The sandwich generation are the caregivers that are caught in the middle. In the middle of […]
5 Signs Your Loved One Needs Assisted Care
April 15, 2016
There are many ways a family may arrive at a decision to seek assisted care for their loved one. Sometimes it happens when the person starts to struggle with everyday tasks. Other times, the family realizes that even having a caregiver is not enough, and their loved one would be more comfortable in a dedicated […]
What is Included in Assisted Living Care?
March 14, 2016
As you are looking for senior care solutions for yourself or your loved one, you’ve probably come such terms as residential care homes, adult group homes or sheltered housing. But in essence, all of them refer to the same type of service—assisted living. Assisted living is very different from a nursing home and provides different […]
What is Hospice Care?
February 16, 2016
At some point in our lives, almost all of us come to know of hospice care one way or another. Maybe we have a relative who received hospice care, or maybe we saw it mentioned in a brochure in a doctor’s office. But until we actually need hospice care for ourselves or for our loved […]
What to Look for in a Maryland Senior Care Facility
January 21, 2016
When it comes to Maryland senior care facilities, there are plenty to choose from! A brief search on the Internet will spit out at least a dozen results that all look like viable options. But that’s until you take a closer look. Not sure which criteria to use when evaluating these different options? Let us […]
What Are Residential Care Homes?
December 16, 2015
If you have been researching Maryland senior care facilities for your loved one or for yourself, you probably came across many different terms used to describe these establishments. There are nursing homes, assisted living facilities, independent living communities and many others. But today we’d like to talk about residential care homes. What are they? What […]
What is Assisted Living?
July 30, 2015
Assisted living is a long-term care solution for seniors who don’t require 24/7 medical attention, but could use help with their daily living activities. To receive such care, a person has to move to an assisted living facility specifically designed and equipped to make life easier for someone with limited mobility, frail bones or painful […]