What Is Respite Care? Many primary caregivers can overtime experience caregiver burnout or exhaustion. Being a primary care giver for a loved one can be physically and emotionally draining, especially if your caregiver duties are on top of a regular job and home duties as well. Often caregivers can experience guilt over feelings of burnout or stress. Respite care allows for planned, periodic respites or breaks for caregivers to have time to tend to life as needed. While the family primary [...]

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There are many reasons why a family might consider health care assistance for a loved one – chronic illness, frailty, transitioning from the hospital or rehabilitation or a need for long-term senior care. With any distinctive circumstance multiple care choices exist, from a skilled nursing facility to assisted living to in-home care. Did you know the most popular choice in American right now is in-home health care? See the top five reasons why so many families are choosing that specific [...]

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Looking after an aging loved one can be difficult and often a bit overwhelming. You may realize that you could really use some help once in a while. If you do make this decision, then home health care is a viable option. In this case a home health care provider can come to your residence and will assist you with whatever areas of need you most have. The provider can help you with bathing your family member, feeding, dressing and any household jobs that you are finding it hard to complete by [...]

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 Learn More About Home Health Care in Central Indiana Home health care may be gaining acceptance, but it is not a new invention. Remember Doc Baker in "Little House on the Prairie"? Set in the 1800s, the show sometimes showed patients visiting his office, but more often, you saw him making what they called "house calls" on his patients. "Bedside manner" was practiced kindly at the sides of his patients' very own beds, by this man who was their neighbor and friend. In the years since that [...]

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If you are caring for your loved one either medically or even non-medically, it could be time for you to seek the assistance from an agency that provides home health care. Even though you have intentions to be the sole care provider for your loved one, this could turn out to be quite difficult, but in the meantime, the very last option is putting them in a home. Know that you're not alone in regards to this problem so you do have options for your beloved, with one of them being assistance with a[...]

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