Making Your Bathroom A Safer Place For Mom And Dad

Because of its slippery surfaces, the bathroom is a place where slips and falls often occur. Do you live with your aging parents? If so, you’re undoubtedly concerned about their health and safety. Among the many tasks you have taken on as responsibilities is keeping...

How Older Adults Can Achieve More Restful Sleeps At Night

Older adults are advised to get at least 7 to 8 hours of good-quality sleep each night. By regularly doing so, seniors can enjoy a number of health benefits. The problem, of course, is that getting a good night’s sleep is often difficult for the elderly. A combination...

How To Gently Nudge Your Elderly Loved One To Shower

There are many reasons that older adults may either forget or wish not to bathe. Consider the fact that, due to mobility limitations, many seniors require help at bath time. This isn’t something they’re particularly fond of. The losses of both privacy and independence...

Helping Seniors To Keep Clean With Greater Ease

For most of us, bathing is a daily routine. However, for seniors, bathing can be quite the laborious chore. Mobility issues can make the supposedly-simple task of stepping into a bathtub quite difficult. Not to mention, medical conditions like Alzheimer’s disease can...

The Importance Of A Good Night’s Sleep For Older Adults and 4 Tips to Help Improve Their Sleep

How important is it for older adults to get restful sleeps at night? Perhaps, it’s a rhetorical question as the answer is obvious. We all need to get good sleep. However, for seniors, it can be much harder to get the sleep necessary. Aches, pains and other ailments...

Providing Personal Hygiene Help To Your Elderly Loved One

It’s not uncommon for an older adult’s personal hygiene to suffer. For many, battles with mobility prevent them from completing adequate jobs of cleaning themselves. As a result, the help of a caregiver is necessary. For many seniors, assistance with daily personal...