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Making the Most of Your Assisted Living Home Visit
Moving in to an assisted living home is a hard transition to make, and you want to be sure you've found the right home in the first place. When you're touring assisted living homes and seeing which one best fits the needs of your loved one, there are certain things...
Communicating Through Dementia
Communicating with someone who has dementia can be tough. They might keep forgetting things, repeating things, asking the same questions, they might even be having dramatic mood swings or their entire personality could change. There are lots of different ways dementia...
3 Reasons Why Seniors Benefit from Assisted Living
Many seniors are hesitant to go in to assisted living. After so many years of being independent, it's hard to admit that maybe it's time to think about assisted living in Laurel, MD. There are many concerns that arise in a senior's mind when someone mentions moving in...
How Can Music Therapy Benefit Dementia Patients?
Dementia is a hard thing to cope with. It's a scary when someone you love can't remember things well, but there are things you can do to help them remember. One way studies have found is effective in benefiting dementia patients is music. Music can help a dementia...
Navigating the Early Stages of Dementia
Dementia is scary, no matter what stage it's at. We can allow for those “senior moments,” but what happens when senior moments simply become “moments”? The early stages of dementia are a lot like senior moments, but more frequent and obvious. Today, we're going to...
Become a Good Listener for Your Loved One
Assisted living can be hard for your once independent loved one. A lack of support can be detrimental to your loved one's experience in assisted living, so it's important to make sure you are supporting your loved one. One way you can do this, is just to listen to...
Is Your Loved One’s Home Safe?
Seniors living alone encounter difficulties that we don't worry about day to day. Things like going to the bathroom can become more difficult as the days go by, and it's important to know that your loved one can handle being alone, even when you want them in assisted...
Keeping Stress at Bay for Seniors
Seniors and older adults are usually retired from work and aren’t as active as they once were in their younger years, but that doesn’t mean they are any less susceptible to everyday stress. Let’s learn a little bit more about how stress affects the elderly community...
Preparing Your Loved Ones for Assisted Living
After a lifetime of living on your own, it's hard to recognize that maybe it's time you need help every day. While we understand the need for assisted living, your loved ones may not want to admit that assisted living is what they need. They might resist going or be...
4 Ways to Communicate with the Hearing Impaired
At birth, we have about 15,000 little hair cells in each of our ears that allow us to hear. By the time we're in our 70's and 80's, many of those hairs have died, with no method of regeneration. Though there is some promising research out there about regrowing these...
