Talem Home Care Blog

For many elderly adults and their caregivers, the new year is a great time to make the resolution to eat a healthier diet. However, eating healthy food and making positive changes to your diet are big challenges that can actually be made harder by all of the myths and rumors circulating about healthy foods.

If your loved one’s doctor has just prescribed oxygen, you might feel intimidated by the prospect as his family caregiver. While there are some important things to understand about oxygen use, it’s not as complicated as you might think. Here are a few tips to help you navigate this new device.

No matter your loved one’s age, seniors can benefit from regular exercise. Seniors don’t have to engage in strenuous workouts or sessions at the gym to enjoy the benefits of exercising. In fact, if you design a workout plan with the help of your home care professional, just one or two short sessions of exercise a day may be enough to improve your elderly loved one’s outlook and overall health.

As our loved ones age, they go through many changes both physically and mentally. Aging loved ones may increasingly need more help around the house, more help with daily tasks, and even more help to be safe drivers.

Getting the right nutrition for everyone that you love can be pretty challenging as a family caregiver. It’s even tougher if your elderly loved one doesn’t see the need to be eating healthier.

Being a family caregiver can be a stressful job. Because of this, caregivers need to also care for themselves so that they can better care for the ones they love. Family caregivers must be intentional about preventing stress, frustration, and getting overwhelmed.

As Thanksgiving comes to a close many people are already thinking about Black Friday, that infamous day of shopping meant to kick off a successful holiday season for the retailers and that often pits masses of shoppers against each other in the early morning hours so that a lucky few can snatch deep discounts on coveted gift items for the upcoming holidays.

When many people think of Thanksgiving one of the first things that comes to mind is their mothers or grandmothers getting up before dawn to put the turkey in the oven, and then spending the rest of the day preparing a seemingly endless variety of side dishes, accompaniments, appetizers, and desserts so that by the end of the day, every flat surface in the home had some sort of delicious seasonal edible on it.

It’s not always true that our elderly loved ones are afraid of technology and don’t want to use it. Your loved one may get a lot of use out of his smartphone, so it makes sense to find some apps that can do even more for him.

Falls are one of the most common sources of household injuries, and also a leading cause of serious injuries, particularly among elderly adults. Each year, hundreds of thousands of seniors end up in the emergency room after falling