Many elderly people need help staying at home, but they also need help in other areas of their lives. This is why each Stay at Home agency assembles a Total Family Care Team made up of trusted providers of companion care, medical care, facility care, legal planning, financial planning, mortuary planning, home maintenance, and medical equipment. Medical equipment People who need Stay at Home’s...
Make end-of-life plans while you’re still together
Many elderly people need help staying at home, but they also need help in other areas of their lives. This is why each Stay at Home agency assembles a Total Family Care Team made up of trusted providers of companion care, medical care, facility care, legal planning, financial planning, mortuary planning, home maintenance, and medical equipment. Mortuary planning Funerals involve a lot of...
See a financial planner to better understand your resources
Many elderly people need help staying at home, but they also need help in other areas of their lives. This is why each Stay at Home agency assembles a Total Family Care Team made up of trusted providers of companion care, medical care, facility care, legal planning, financial planning, mortuary planning, home maintenance, and medical equipment. Financial planning By the time you get to be a...
Legal issues should be worked out before there is an emergency
Many elderly people need help staying at home, but they also need help in other areas of their lives. This is why each Stay at Home agency assembles a Total Family Care Team made up of trusted providers of companion care, medical care, facility care, legal planning, financial planning, mortuary planning, home maintenance, and medical equipment. Legal planning Who will make decisions for you when...
Facility care is an option when companion care can’t meet your needs
Many elderly people need help staying at home, but they also need help in other areas of their lives. This is why each Stay at Home agency assembles a Total Family Care Team made up of trusted providers of companion care, medical care, facility care, legal planning, financial planning, mortuary planning, home maintenance, and medical equipment. Facility care There’s really no question that most...
We help out when the medical care comes to you
Many elderly people need help staying at home, but they also need help in other areas of their lives. This is why each Stay at Home agency assembles a Total Family Care Team made up of trusted providers of companion care, medical care, facility care, legal planning, financial planning, mortuary planning, home maintenance, and medical equipment. Medical care Many of our Stay at Home clients are...
Here’s how we help our clients maintain healthy blood sugar
The evidence is in: The link between blood sugar/insulin and Alzheimer’s disease is so strong that Alzheimer’s can reasonably be called type 3 diabetes. So what does that mean for senior citizens? It means eating right and watching your blood sugar are lifelong tasks. And what does it mean for how we help take care of our clients at Stay at Home? It means we will stress nutrition as a way of...
The link between diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease—another reason to watch what you eat
Alzheimer’s disease is a disease of the elderly. For those of us who make it to 85, there is a 50–50 chance we will develop Alzheimer’s. Yet even though we’ve known about Alzheimer’s for more than a century and it’s the most common form of dementia in the United States, we still don’t know what to do about it. We at Stay at Home have written about the link between Alzheimer’s and hearing loss,...
Pay attention to the warning signs of hearing loss
Hearing loss can be much more than inconvenient, especially for a senior citizen. According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders you have a one in three chance of diminished hearing if you are between 65 and 74 and nearly a 50 percent chance if you are 75 and older. This post is part of our discussion of hearing loss among the elderly. How can you detect...
Hearing loss can make you sick
Hearing loss can be much more than inconvenient, especially for a senior citizen. According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders you have a one in three chance of diminished hearing if you are between 65 and 74 and nearly a 50 percent chance if you are 75 and older. This post is part of our discussion of hearing loss among the elderly. Deafness can be bad for...