Keeping Older Adults Independent

 My Story:  Why I am in Senior Home Care My journey to make home care proactive started with three seeds I found myself in Silicon Valley backstage at the Health 2.0 conference, ready to take the main stage in front of a crowd of hundreds. I peered between an opening of two curtains and had a glimpse of the stage and the crowd, but something else caught my eye.  It was not the camera man that would be directly in my face, I had been on other stages and gotten used to that by now.  I looked up for some reason and shining directly on the spot where I was to talk was a bright lime green light, shining and flickering like a star.  Was this what they meant by lime light?   I started thinking about all the things that led me here and right before they called my name to get on stage, I thought about the reason I started in senior home care, my grandmother and a fond memory I had of her, it relaxed me. Then I heard, “CEO, Anthony Nunez.”     My journe...

  How to Select Elder Care 101 A Guide to Selecting Home Care in Arlington County and Fairfax County Understanding The Stage of Care You May Need There are three types of home care, or sometimes referred to as elder care, offered in Northern Virginia and they go from a fully independent older adult to one that is bed ridden. I am outlining in the first section the stages below and some guidance to understand where the needs for your parent may be.  In the second section, I outline the options for early stage care also known as companion care. Companion Care : This is the stage where the older adult is fully capable of coming and going as they please.  Families are concerned that the older adult may be alone for too long but there is no concern of them not returning and they can cook for themselves, eat by themselves and in most cases they still drive.  This is the earliest stage of care and typically for older adults who live alone, this is the first form of care an ...