Category Archives: Family Caregiver

Bay Area Community Church Eldercare Resource Workshop

More than 65 million Americans are responsible for caregiving services. They are preparing meals, providing personal care, taking over household chores, managing appointments and in some cases providing full-time assistance. Providing care for a loved one can cause a physical and emotion toll on one’s health. Feeling an unusually high...

Planning a Positive and Productive Family Meeting

As loved ones experience physical or cognitive decline, it is difficult for family caregivers to address the need for additional help in the home. Ideally, families should prepare for those needs before a crisis occurs. Planning a positive and productive family meeting can bring everyone up to speed on emerging...

Assisting the Sight Impaired

Many seniors are hesitant to discuss concerns regarding any vision problems they may be experiencing. For this reason, it is helpful to know how to recognize changes in behavior and appearance that indicate the senior could benefit from a visit to the doctor or eye care professional. Watch for these...

Home for the Holidays: 5 Tips to Prepare for Family Gatherings

Holiday visits sometimes greet family members with alarming signs that additional care or daily assistance is needed in the home of aging loved ones. With busy schedules or long distances separating families for much of the year, subtle (or not-so-subtle) indicators can easily be missed. While you may be aware...

Use 5 Senses to Determine if Care is Needed

To find out what’s keeping someone from being fully independent in their home, become a detective and navigate their rooms as they would. Considering the individual’s height, weight, strength and other abilities, is their home safe for them? Also, when you visit your loved one, use each of your five...

Nurturing the Family Caregiver

Nurture the family caregiver in your life–that includes you. The daily demands of caring for a loved one makes caregiving one of the toughest jobs around. As a family caregiver, the most important thing to do is take good care of personal, mental and physical health in order to provide...