When Is It Time to Talk to Your Loved One About Elderly Care Services?
Making the decision to move a loved one into senior living can be a difficult one. You want to make sure that they are getting the care they need, but…
Tips For A Stress-Free, Enjoyable Vacation With Aging Parents
Travel is good for the body and mind. It expands perspectives, and provides new and interesting things to consider and experience. “In general, traveling, going to new places and meeting…
Tips for Finding Quality Dementia Care in Baltimore
At least 110,000 Marylanders aged 65 and older are dealing with Alzheimer’s Disease or another form of dementia today. For them and for their families, finding care can be a daunting task….
When Parental Care Becomes Family Feud
Familial infighting is nothing new. We experience it as a child, vying for the last piece of cake or the biggest slice of pizza. We compete with siblings for the…
Healthy Tips for Older Women
With Mother’s Day next month, it’s time to start thinking about women, particularly about women’s health. Today, aging successfully is in focus more than ever, and it’s become apparent that…
Be Sure When Managing Medications
If your aging loved is prescribed a lot of medications, make sure they are taking the right doses at the correct times. It’s easy to mistake one pill for another,…
Elders and Abuse
When someone hears terms like neglect, exploitation, physical abuse, mental/emotional abuse, sexual abuse, abandonment, they probably don’t connect them to the seniors in their life. Our elders have always been…
The Silver Tsunami and what it means for Assistive Living, LTC and Home Health. Goals, Trends, Quality of Life
Over the next 3 decades, the number of people over 65 will double, from 40 million to over 80 million. And those over 85 years old will be the largest…
Aging Well In America
Longevity, or living a long life, is what we strive for as we age. Healthy, active, longevity. And there are solid guidelines available to help us to get there. No…
The Code of Maryland Regulations as Applied to Residential Assisted Living Facilities
To be licensed as a Residential Assisted Living facility (RAL) in the State of Maryland, you must follow the Code of Maryland Regulations (COMAR) http://www.dsd.state.md.us/COMAR/searchall.aspx. The code provides detailed regulations for…
Seniors and Telemedicine – COVID’s Impact On Care Delivery
COVID19 capitulated telemedicine into the must-have solution for virtual care that only a global calamity can drive. Telemedicine, already a successful, though marginally utilized innovation in care delivery, was bumping…
Becoming a Certified Dementia Care Trainer
By CarePatrol of Baltimore Dementia is a spectrum of disorders of the brain, most commonly effecting memory, cognition, reasoning, mood, and coordination. It is an affliction that is growing rapidly…