Offering more than just a guide – we provide a comprehensive platform committed to offering valuable resources, practical advice, and compassionate support for families navigating the journey of aging together. Our newsletter covers a wide range of topics, including elder health tips, caregiving strategies, medical assistance resources, and lifestyle advice, tailored to meet the diverse needs of every family member.
December Employees to Celebrate
December Employee Birthdays and Anniversaries to Celebrate!
November Employees to Celebrate
November Employee Birthdays and Anniversaries to Celebrate!
When getting healthcare in the home makes sense
Where home care can really shine is within value-based care arrangements. Finding out someone has hypertension early can lead to medication that reduces the likelihood of heart failure, and paying for an in-home checkup is well worth the expense for the overall savings it can confer to whoever has payment responsibility.
September Employees to Celebrate
September Employee Birthdays and Anniversaries to Celebrate!
How School-Based Mental Health Providers Can Help Hispanic/Latinx Students
Jaime Torres has been seeing his school social worker, Theresa Jones, for individual and family therapy for some time now. The bright, timid high school senior grappled with feelings of hopelessness and panic attacks for several years. His struggles started with palpitations, night sweats and an overwhelming sense of the room spinning out of control. Jaime also experienced a sense of desperation and sadness. He could not gain control of his thoughts and struggled with suicidal ideation. Eventually, he decided to seek help.
5 Reasons Men Skip Doctor Visits, and Shouldn’t
Men are 24 percent less likely than women to have visited a doctor within the past year, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Creating a Wheelchair and Walker Friendly Home
Tips and recommendations on how to make a home much more friendly to seniors using wheelchairs or walkers.
When Dan Bawden teaches contractors and builders about aging-in-place, he has them get into a wheelchair. See what it’s like to try to do things from this perspective, he tells them.
Safe Needle Disposal
Need to dispose of needles in a home care setting? Here is important information what to do with used sharps in Illinois.
Put used sharps in a strong, plastic container.
May is Mental Health Month
Each year millions of Americans face the reality of living with a mental illness. During May, NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) and the rest of the country are raising awareness of mental health.
Hygiene Indifference: The Symptom We Don’t Talk About
Most of us have heard the saying: “Cleanliness is next to Godliness.” This old-fashioned mantra reinforces a long-held, misguided belief: that being “unclean” equates to laziness and moral ineptitude. As a result, our culture often takes an unsympathetic approach to addressing issues like poverty and homelessness; far too many of us interpret these situations as a personal failing rather than a product of structural inequality.
10,000 Steps to Better Fitness
The most useful suggestion for activity or exercise is the one that matches up to your life most naturally.
February Employees to Celebrate
February Employee Birthdays and Anniversaries to Celebrate!
The Importance of Prioritizing Emotional Wellness over Academic Achievement
As a therapist, I have noticed significant distress among youth and young adults, particularly college-aged clients. One way we can take a preventative approach to dealing with this emotional distress is to change the way we think of timelines. Specifically, we need to begin adjusting our expectations of young adults and what they should accomplish by a certain age.
As a society, we pressure youth to achieve certain milestones “on time.”