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We talk with a lot of caregivers.  In fact, we talk with caregivers of various types everyday.  While our job is to help find equipment solutions for difficult situations, it is also our job to help disseminate helpful information for everyone involved in care giving.  Over the next few months we will offer a series of articles designed to help caregivers and their patients cope with the everyday stress of helping and helping well. Caregiving InformationThe term "caregiving" …

Orig Post agingcare.com | Re-Post Careprodx 4/14/2016As our parents and grandparents age, it is normal to begin to notice a decline in health, mobility and many other things. However, memory loss, difficulty with problem solving, and confusion are a few signs that may indicate various types of cognitive impairment.Only a doctor can determine whether a loved one's memory problems or confusion is Alzheimer’s or something else, and that same doctor will be the one to prescribe a course of acti …

The Quiet Epidemic: Our senior citizens are developing drug & alcohol rehab addiction at an alarming rate.For help or information Click Here to visit RehabNet.com.

If you have taken on the role of a caregiver in the last few years, you have joined on of the biggest and most important working groups in America today.  According to the Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA), an estimated 44 million Americans have taken on this vital job. Caregivers fix meals, make doctor's appointments, do the laundry, and generally make sure their frail or sick relatives or friends can live as well as possible for as long as possible.  The actual list of things a caregiv …

Orig Post usatoday.com | Re-Post CareProdx 5/26/2916 - NEW YORK (AP) — Doris Ranzman had followed the expert advice, planning ahead in case she wound up unable to care for herself one day. But when a nursing-home bill tops $14,000 a month, the best-laid plans get tossed aside.Even with insurance and her Social Security check, Ranzman still had to come up with around $4,000 every month to cover her care in the Amsterdam Nursing Home in Manhattan. "An awful situation," said her daughter, …