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Category: Temporary/Respite Care

How to Manage This Type of Dementia Confusion: Alternate Reality

Dementia confusion, a common occurrence in Alzheimer's, can result in recent memories being forgotten or distorted, while those from the more remote past often stay intact. This may cause prior times to make more sense to an older adult with dementia than the present. A person’s alternate reality could be his or her way of making sense of the present through past experiences. Individuals with Alzheimer's disease frequently have problems expressing themselves, and at times their alternate reality has more to do with a requirement or a specific feeling they are attempting to express than it has to do with...

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Feeling Caregiver Burnout? Home & Hearth’s Senior Care Experts Can Help.

Let’s be honest: providing care for a senior loved one, in spite of its many rewards, can be stressful. Trying to meet the ongoing, 24/7 needs of another while managing the intricacies of your own life (career, family, home, volunteering, pets, just to name a few) takes more energy and patience than most of us possess. And yet, in tandem with the stress often comes the feeling of guilt for even considering your own needs when your loved one depends on you so completely. While it’s common among family caregivers to try to handle the provision of care alone, it’s...

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How To Reduce The Stress Of A Family Caregiver

Acting as the primary caregiver to a seriously ill or aging family member may seem like the only choice you have. You may have chosen this direction for financial, personal, religious, or even moral reasons. Regardless of your reasons, it is inevitable that you will face challenges. Fortunately, there are ways to help prevent or alleviate their impact on you and the rest of your family, allowing you to make the best of your situation. Family Caregiver Impacts, Stresses And Challenges The most common and obvious problems include the time and money that serving as the family caregiver can take away...

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Returning Home From The Hospital

Hearing that your senior loved one will be returning home from the hospital, even after a short stay, is welcome news. However, you may have two conflicting emotions, thrilled they are coming home and stressed over how you'll get everything in order without turning your life upside down! Plus, you'll likely have plenty of other questions: How many doctors need to sign off on their release? What time will they be discharged? Will it fit into your work schedule or do you need to take the day off? Will your loved one need help caring for themselves when they get home? If only returning...

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Senior Caregiver Tips – From a Seniors Perspective

It's all too easy to look at your senior loved one through your own eyes and have things colored by your own experiences and preferences. It's natural to think of their problems, as well as the possible solutions, from the standpoint of what would work for you, or what you think they would want. You may even prioritize a doctors' recommendation on what would lengthen their life, but do so without considering what the actual quality of the lengthened life might be. However, it is important to remember that as a person ages, they usually see things differently than they...

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Avoid These 3 Elderly Care Mistakes

Everyone wants to do their very best when providing or choosing elderly care their senior loved one. There can be so many pressures from all sides (family, friends, employers, personal finances, etc.), and your time is both limited and usually filled with raw emotions. It's easy to make choices which may seem good at first, but are later regretted. There are many factors to consider. Here are some important points to consider in helping you to avoid the most common mistakes and get you off to a promising start in this new phase of your loved one's life. Mistake #1 - Too Little Elderly Care Research Whether it's the type of care available or the organizations that provide...

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At Home & Hearth Caregivers, we are proud to offer compassionate, family-like in-home care, respite care, and Alzheimer’s and dementia care services to seniors and families throughout Cook, DuPage, Will, Lake, McHenry Counties, including the following cities and towns:

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