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Feb 2023
Home health care and hospice are similar in many ways and can work together in providing care for mutual patients, and guiding families. Paradise Home Health Care has worked with many families that have hospice care or will get referred to hospice later, as their care needs change. We will discuss some ways that home ...
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Apr 2018
Anticipatory Grief and Caregiving Anticipatory grief is part of caregiving for many people. There are many difficult aspects to being a primary caregiver or have a loved one with a degenerative or incurable disease. One, which may not be recognized or addressed enough, is Anticipatory Grief. We tend to think of grief or grieving only ...
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Oct 2015
Grief is often felt by Spousal Caregivers when loved one is still with us All people react to illness, caregiving, grief and loss in very individual ways. Even when circumstances are similar, and an ending comes into focus, each person in the family and those people all around them, will experience grief differently and act ...
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Oct 2015
Medicare Open Enrollment Period Medicare Open enrollment is here. Time for American seniors aged 65 and older to make changes to their Medicare health coverage or switch to Medicare from managed plans. Medicare Open enrollment is from Oct. 15th through Dec. 7th, 2015. There are several parts to Medicare and they are not free. Traditional ...
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Jul 2015
Aging Misconceptions: Myth or Fact? Seniors and Boomers test your knowledge about Aging and Aging Misconceptions. Read these statements and decide which are true and which are false. *Most Elderly Americans live in Nursing Homes (5% or less) *My family don’t call me, they must not love me” (Email & Texts are used) *A Will ...
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Jun 2015
Jan Engoren jengoren@tribune.com Senior Internet Training on Popular Websites While surfing the Internet and a quick Google fact-check is second nature to many these days, there is still a segment of the population that struggles to get online and navigate. Many seniors, dragged reluctantly into the tech age, have acquiesced and accommodated, however slowly and ...
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Apr 2015
Caregiver Terminology – Talk the Talk Caregiver terminology, a language of its own. Until you enter the “Health Care Zone” you may have heard some of these terms, or not. Once in this zone, meaning you or a loved one has either reached older age, experienced an injury or been diagnosed with some type ...
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Jan 2015
With about 5 million Americans living with Alzheimer’s Disease and many more fearful of getting this degenerative cognitive disease, it is helpful to learn the different stages. No two people get the same disease in terms of strict similarity of symptoms and time frames. There isn’t a crystal ball, but there is a known direction and somewhat ...
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Dec 2014
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, Palliative is defined as: medical: something that reduces the effects or symptoms of a medical condition without curing it – Palliative care is too often called later rather than sooner. It is not necessarily Hospice care, it may involve Hospice later, but it is a separate approach which is best used earlier on ...
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