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Why a 3:1 Staff to Patient Ratio Is So Important
Senior citizens and elderly people require specialized care. The challenges that come along with the increased life expectancy require that the caregivers have specific skill set. Nursing homes are supposed to provide the highest level of elder care to the seniors...
When is Hospice Care Required?
Hospice care isn’t for everyone, but it is very advantageous to those who need it. Hospice care workers do their best to eliminate chronic pain in patients, as well as tend to their emotional and spiritual needs when they are suffering from a serious or terminal...
Maryland Alzheimer’s Facts
Over 14 percent of the Maryland population is over the age of 65. With such a large population of senior residents, Maryland has some of the higher Alzheimer's rates in the country. The statistics that surround Alzheimer's in our area are astounding and as an industry...
Why Home-like Environments are Important to Privacy and Independence
Aging is just a natural process and it can be bittersweet. On one hand, you feel proud for knowing or being with someone who’s had such a beautiful, rich life, yet on the other hand, you know they’re on the last leg of their cycle. In an odd way, much like the story...
What is Palliative Care and who needs it?
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...
Aging in Place vs. Aging at Home
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,...
Caregiving Challenges your Parents Didn’t Have
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...
5 Signs Your Loved One Needs Assisted Care
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...
What is Included in Assisted Living Care?
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...
What is Hospice Care?
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...
