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...

Healthy Habits for Seniors, part 1 Two Natural Foods That Can Help Improve Memory for Seniors My goal whenever I write something is to offer information to the adult children of seniors so that you may help encourage your parents' independence through healthy habits.  I had been reading a lot about these two foods and hearing about their benefits on memory, cognitive function and wanted to explore whether it was true.     Why I have been hearing about turmeric since 2018 and its health benefits, particularly for seniors.  It is a common spice in Indian food and a member of the ginger family, but it is not as fragrantly strong as you may think. Turmeric contains something called curcumin , which is the yellow pigment (kind of looks orange) seen above on the right.  This has been a dietary staple for people in India for a long time.   India has the lowest rate of Alzheimer's disease in the world (4.4 times less than the U.S.).  You may be askin...

  Daily Check-ins on Seniors Help Improve Their Health Adult children are balancing three main pillars of their life constantly, where each one by itself can consume the majority of a day.  Career, family and social life are the ever-shifting pillars that require attention each day. However, each of these pillars of our lives has subcategories within them that are difficult to manage routinely.  For example, raising a new family with children consumes a majority of the adult child's life now, often sacrificing social life to make up for the insufficient amount of time in a day to get kids to sports activities.  Within the family pillar also lies our parents or older adult family members that increasingly need our help with time.  We as adult children often let this portion slip from our priorities, forgetting to check-in on seniors, not because we are bad people but because often times with young children in our new family, we prioritize the young members over...

  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 ...