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Making the Right Assisted Living Choice in San Antonio

By Renee | Published: December 23, 2015

Find the best quality assisted living facility in San Antonio, TexasDecorating for holidays this holiday season is possible for some seniors in San Antonio assisted living facilities.  The holidays are a time in which many of our senior aged loved ones would have normally provided for us a beautiful, home setting with all of the best holiday decorations we have ever seen.  For many seniors, holiday decorating and preparing for family at the holidays would be just out of the realm of what they are able to do any longer.   Living alone may have no longer been a safe possibility and now the seniors in our lives require the assistance of those who are professionals in their field and work in assisted living facilities.  The word ‘facility’ can often make these assisted living homes and buildings to feel more clinical and cold than they actually are.  Assisted living communities and neighborhoods are full of companionship, sharing and love.  Many seniors make friends with others in the assisted living communities and are close with the staff that is helping with their daily living assistance needs.  The holidays are a time when people are most neighborly in the assisted living communities.  Most assisted living communities decorate for the holidays and have a very festive feeling.  Volunteers and workers will often get residents together to bake some of their all-time favorite cookies to share amongst each other and bring the community together.

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Assisted Living with Memory Care in Mind

By Renee | Published: October 16, 2015

Memory Care in Houston, TexasIn the Houston, Texas area Autumn Leaves has designed its building, from the ground up, with Dementia in mind. There are many choices in senior care, memory care and assisted living in the Houston area, but when it comes to your elderly loved one with Dementia and Alzheimer’s then the care requires more than just the basics of assisted living. Think carefully about the choice that you are making with and for your senior aged loved one because choosing the right facility can mean a reversal of some of the Dementia and Alzheimer’s effects or at the least slowing the progression. You will want to keep your senior aged loved one’s mind as healthy and their life as happy as possible for as long as possible.

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Safe Living in San Antonio with Assistance

By Renee | Published: September 24, 2015

find quality assisted living in San AntonioAll day and night, there are times that a senior may need assistance. In San Antonio, seniors are getting some of the best help to maintain independent living, but get just the assistance that is necessary where each senior needs it.  San Antonio assisted living is the best way for a senior to stay safe without losing the ability to live their lives just the way they want to.  Seniors should be able to remain free to make their own schedules, do the things that they like and enjoy and be able to remain safely living a healthy lifestyle.  Some seniors may need assistance with daily living activities.  Some seniors need more than others.  It is important that the assisted living community tailor the care plan and level of assistance to the senior’s individual needs.  There are some seniors who may, unexpectedly, need assistance in the nighttime. With assisted living, seniors have around the clock cared and assistance may be provided in those situations.  It is safer for a senior to live in an assisted living facility, when he or she can no longer handle all of their daily living activities alone and without assistance.  If you are visiting with your senior aged loved one and it seems like things that should be done on a daily basis aren’t happening, you may need to bring up the conversation with your senior if they need assistance (with things like getting dressed, bathing, eating, etc.).

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Get Rolling!

By Renee | Published: May 20, 2015

Find senior retirement communities in Austin, TexasIn there are many retirement communities in Austin to choose from.  Many are filled with luscious scenery and all are in one of the best places to retire.  Many retirement communities have on-site laundry, restaurants, coffee shops, spa services, fitness facilities, pools and recreation areas.  Most are more like a resort than anything else.  The preferred method of transportation around many retirement communities is the golf cart.  Many retirement communities are also located on or within golf cart driving distance of golf courses.  The golf carts are anything, but ordinary.  There are designs and customizations which will truly make the golf cart a reflection of each residence’s personal style.  From flowers to flames and everything in between, the golf carts will be equipped with decals and painted designs which are so much fun to have and look at.  No matter the size of the retirement community, it is easy to get around on the golf cart.  Many couples are making their way to dinner at the restaurant, with drink in hand, while enjoying the beautiful weather and surroundings.  Some retirement communities are apartment or condo style, while others offer individual and separate living areas.  The retirement communities in Austin are something to be seen.

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Home Care in San Antonio

By Renee | Published: January 11, 2014

Home Care in San AntonioSome seniors eat a lot and some just nibble throughout the day.  Home care in San Antonio provides services to help keep seniors appetites at bay and bellies full.  Throughout life we tend to develop a pattern with regard to our eating and sleeping habits.  For some people it was a necessity from work or family obligations that dictated their schedules.  For others, schedules for eating and sleeping were just developed around their preference.  Some people are get- up-and-go kind of sleep and eaters.  These people are early to wake and eat nearly as soon as they open their eyes.  Others sleep in without an alarm and ease into the day without eating until much later in the afternoon or possibly waiting until dinner.  While there is much discussion and research surrounding what might be the healthiest way to live, eat and sleep most people just do what is best for them.  After years of being an early or later riser or eater, these patterns typically continue in the later years of life.  Seniors who are in need of assistance in their home will often have meals on wheels or other home care services to help them out.  Some seniors will save their meals from the day before to be able to eat very early in the day; while others make lunches a late night snack.  Breakfast options are typical for seniors who eat early in the day.

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Retirement Homes San Antonio | Senior Dating

By Renee | Published: October 15, 2013

Retirement Homes in San Antonio | Dating SeniorsDating is a hot topic in retirement homes in San Antonio.  Seniors, just like all people, like to mingle and need companionship.  As seniors age and their partners are no longer living, they get lonely.  There is no reason that a senior should be excluded from meeting new people.  In retirement homes in San Antonio there are many community events and gathering times that seniors will meet new people and maybe a new partner.  Meeting new people can be hard if you are no longer really out and about in the community, but in retirement homes there are many residents and many which are ‘single’ and available for a relationship.  Dating can be just as nerve racking for a senior aged person as it would be for anyone of any age.  Meeting new people and seeing if their values and personality are a match for you is not an easy process for some people.  Retirement homes are a likely place for seniors to find a date or meet a match because the residents are all in a similar place in their lives and about the same age.  Dating is as much fun as a senior as it was when you were a teenager.

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In Home Nursing Care Dallas | Care For My Grandmother

By Renee | Published: October 15, 2013

Patience is a virtue that my grandmother’s in home nursing care Dallas worker possesses as she cares for her in her home.  My grandmother is one of the most stubborn women I have ever met.  It has only gotten worse as she has gotten older.  She always did her own thing and made her own rules.  Now that she is older and people are trying to keep her safe by telling her what she should or should not do, it can be a battle.  I admire the patience that the in home nursing care worker has with my grandmother.  She is kind and repeats herself more than once.  She explains why things need to be done the way that they need to be done. I only the other hand am slightly more direct with my grandmother.  She will push the in home nursing care workers until they are literally at their breaking points, just to try to prove that she still owns her own actions.  It can be extremely frustrating, but I know my grandmother and she has always been a ‘fighter’.  She never wanted to do as the others told her or conform to the ways of others.  As she gets older, we find the challenges of keeping her safe and healthy a chore at time.  Making her understand why doing something differently now that she has aged is beneficial to her well-being can be a daunting task.

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Preventing Falls During Houston Home Care

By Renee | Published: August 17, 2013

Steps to prevent falls while in Houson homecareHome care workers play a unique role in fall prevention in Houston senior’s homes.  Some seniors do not have a family member or friend who has the trained eye to look for things that might cause a fall or accidental slip.  Home care workers are experienced with seniors and their care needs.  While a family member may remember a time when a senior aged loved one was limber, flexible and had great mobility, home care workers are aware that as we age we run the risk of experiencing a fall and this risk grows in likelihood.  Trip hazards and things that we can change in the home are typically easy to identify for a home care worker.  Houston home care workers will spend a significant amount of time in the home and their suggestions should be considered as an expert opinion with regard to fall prevention.  A home care worker will be providing an outside perspective to that which we are used to seeing in a senior aged loved one’s Houston home.

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Seniors Count On Assisted Living In Dallas

By Renee | Published: July 26, 2013

HavFind how seniors depend on quality providers of assisted living in Dallasing someone to count on is the premise of assisted living in Dallas apartments where seniors reside.  We all want to feel a sense of support in our lives.  As we grow older, it is unfortunate to say, but many of our friends and often our spouses pass away and that leaves seniors on their own.  It is not difficult as we get older to care for all of the day to day living activities and things of that nature alone.  Many times seniors live in different cities than their adult children or their adult children have careers and families which occupy most of their time.  No senior aged person wants to feel like a burden to their family.  Assisted living in Dallas apartments which house seniors are allowing seniors the freedom of independent living as well as the assistance that they need to survives at this point in their lives.  Assisted living apartments can come as furnished apartments in some cases, but many times the apartment in appearance is the same as any other and will require furnishing.  The facilities providing assisted living in Dallas are staffed according to the occupancy levels and amount of residents also with regard to the level of care required for the residents.

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Hospice Care In San Antonio

By Renee | Published: July 25, 2013

providing compassionate hospice care in san antonioHome care is not specific to end-of- life care like the hospice care in San Antonio that can be provided in a person’s home.  Some people, including me, did not realize the benefits of hospice care in the home versus a family caregiver or home care.  The philosophy behind hospice care is still a new concept to many in the senior care industry, the health care world and those with aging loved ones.  Hospice is the best kind of care for those who are in their final stage of life.  Explaining to a child, a mentally ill adult or a senior who is suffering from Dementia or Alzheimer’s disease what is happening in the last stage of life can be beyond difficult or impossible for family members.  The emotions surrounding death for a family member are often only sadness and devastation.  Hospice care workers are able to bring a new perspective, hope and happiness to a person in their last stage of life.

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