What the Difference is Between Home Health Care and Elder Care
Elder Care Perrysburg OH-At first blush, home health care and elder care look very much alike. They’re actually very different types of assistance. Here are their differences.
What the Benefits of Home Health Care Are for Your Senior
Home Health Care Sandusky OH-Dealing with an injury or recovering from surgery isn’t easy for your senior, but it can be much easier with the help of home health care services.
Four Tips for Helping Patients with Trouble Hearing
Senior Care Tiffin OH-As an STNA, there may be plenty of patients you encounter who experience difficulty hearing. Having some tricks up your sleeve is a great idea.
Five Tips for Avoiding Sleep Problems as a New STNA
Once you’ve successfully completed your training and passed your exam, the next hurdle is to find the perfect job to start out your career as an STNA. But with late-night shifts, long hours, and so many other variables, you might find that balancing your new career with sleep gets a little difficult. These tips can help. Home Health Aide Training Bowling Green OH - Five Tips for Avoiding Sleep Problems as a New STNA Be Careful with Caffeine Caffeine is a normal [...]
What about When Your Senior Doesn’t Want Any Help
It’s frustrating to see your senior struggle with something or to need help from you or from others and to have her turn down that help whenever you offer it. There might be valid reasons for her to do this, but it’s still frustrating. Elderly Care Toledo OH - What about When Your Senior Doesn’t Want Any Help? Look Behind What She’s Saying When your elderly family member turns down help that you’re offering, there can be a lot of layers to [...]
Four Self-care Tips for STNAs
Being an STNA means that you’re taking care of several patients at a time. You’ll do that every shift, every day that you work. That can start to add up to a lot of people you’re taking care of in a short amount of time. You need to make sure that one of the people you’re caring for is yourself. Caregiver Sandusky OH - Four Self-care Tips for STNAs Proper Hygiene Protects You and Your Patients During your training, you learn a [...]
You Could Help Your Staff Avoid Nursing Burnout
Becoming a nurse is incredibly rewarding and there are so many different options for employment. One-on-one settings where nurses visit their patients at home are just as necessary as ER nurses in a major hospital. One thing that all nurses have in common is that they’re all potentially susceptible to something called burnout. Medical Staffing Fremont OH - You Could Help Your Staff Avoid Nursing Burnout What Is Nursing Burnout? Nursing burnout involves nurses becoming emotionally, mentally, and physically worn out by [...]
Why Your Senior Does Not Want Your Help
When you offer help to your senior and she turns you down over and over, that gets upsetting. It can help to understand what might be behind that refusal so that you can correct any misconceptions. Elderly Care Sylvania OH - Why Your Senior Does Not Want Your Help She Really Believes She’s Doing Fine Believe it or not, your elderly family member may honestly see herself as doing quite fine on her own. She may realize that she’s facing some challenges, [...]
How to Tell Your Senior’s Living Situation Doesn’t Work for Her Anymore
Once your senior’s living situation no longer works for her, you might already have some suggestions for her. But if she’s not ready to move just yet and she still isn’t okay on her own, you may need to make other changes. Here are some of the signs that you at least need to talk with her. Elder Care Marion OH - How to Tell Your Senior’s Living Situation Doesn’t Work for Her Anymore Her Safety Is Compromised Your elder’s safety is one [...]
What Anxiety Might Look Like for Your Senior
Anxiety might not have been a problem for your senior in the past, but many aging adults do develop issues with anxiety. Understanding a little about anxiety and what it looks like can help you to be there for your senior as she deals with it. Homecare Sylvania OH - What Anxiety Might Look Like for Your Senior There Doesn’t Have to Be a “Reason” One of the biggest misconceptions about anxiety in general is that there needs to be a reason [...]