COVID-19: What to Do If You Think You Have It Right now, any cough might raise the question, “Do I have COVID-19?” However, we’re still in cold and flu season and seasonal allergies might be starting up. How do you know which tickle in your throat is caused by pollen,...
Five Tricks to Make the Isolation Bearable! You’ve cleaned out the kitchen cabinets, bagged up the clothes you don’t wear anymore, read a couple of books, talked for hours on the phone to your friends, watched more television than you care to admit, and even dusted all...
10 Tips for Staying Healthy During the COVID-19 Outbreak Social distancing, self-isolation, quarantine. Most of us didn’t expect to hear these terms used so much this spring. But, suddenly, the world is in the middle of an outbreak of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Many...
What Does Home Health Care Do? If you or your loved one is homebound and not able to travel to a doctor’s office for medical tests or therapy, they may take advantage of home health care. Sometimes also called skilled home health services, this refers to...
Time to Learn! You Can Teach an “Old Dog” New Tricks Do you believe that you’re too old to learn new skills, particularly a few of them at once? Maybe you think you won’t have the focus. Or you may fear not being able to remember all of that new information....
Retirees Have a Plethora of Options in Hamilton County No longer weighed down by that stuffy, inhospitable stereotype that they once held, retirement communities are now seen as a thriving destination for retirees everywhere. Seniors are planting themselves at Continuing Care Retirement Communities (or CCRCs) across the nation, leisure...
Anxiety Goes Viral: 9 Ways to Deal with COVID-19 Grocery store shelves nearly bare in select aisles. Cancellations and shut-downs left and right. Disruptions of normal life in general … all cause for anxiety. And those of us who live and work in the world of seniors know they...
Can Assisted Living Evict You? The short answer is yes. And in some states, assisted living facilities can evict residents with as little as a 45-day notice. While skilled nursing facilities are closely regulated by federal laws, assisted living facilities, or ALFs, are not. According...
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How Does Someone Qualify for Assisted Living? Assisted living is growing. In the next few years, the population of people 85 and older is expected to grow by 33.2%. These seniors also have more money; the net worth of Americans over 80 is increasing, too, meaning that...