01Aug 2019
29May 2019
Medicaid vs Long-Term Care Insurance in Philadelphia Elderly Care
In the event you are providing elderly care in Philadelphia, you may be called upon to help with a wide variety of tasks for the senior in your life – and one of those tasks may be helping them make decisions regarding insurance. Deciding whether Medicare/Medicaid or private long-term care insurance will be better can be difficult – particularly when they offer different benefits.
05Apr 2019
Neighborly Home Care Offers Tips For Filing Seniors’ Taxes
Tax season is here again – will you be helping to prepare taxes for an elderly loved one in your life? Senior home caregivers in Philadelphia often find themselves in the position of assisting with taxes, which can be a particularly stressful situation. Keeping track of one’s own taxes is difficult enough, but what about someone else’s taxes?
03Mar 2019
Common Caregiver Problems: A Series with Solutions – Part 3 – Ambiguous Loss and Anticipatory Grief
As any of the caregiver agencies in Philadelphia can tell you, any form of caregiving involves unique challenges. In part one and part two of this series, we covered the work stresses and overall emotional stress that many caregivers often deal with. However, perhaps the toughest emotional challenge comes from caring for a loved one with dementia. Every day, they can slip further away. On one hand, the “spirit” of the person you know is vanishing, but on the other, they remain alive and physically present.
07Feb 2019
Philadelphia Home Care Provider Neighborly Home Care Encourages People To Promote Health for American Heart Month
Feb 5, 2019 – Ardmore, PA – February is American Heart Month, the month to recognize the impact that our lifestyles have on our cardiac health. American Heart Month is particularly important to Neighborly Home Care, and anyone else providing home care for senior citizens.
06Jul 2018
Services for Seniors in Philadelphia – Helping Seniors Age Independently
For many seniors, retaining their independence as they age is a top priority. Unfortunately, as a person grows older, physical and mental abilities begin to degrade. The rate of loss will be different for everyone, but sooner or later, the senior will likely need some help. For people providing services for seniors in Philadelphia, new challenges are created: how do you balance their desire for independence with the reality that their ability to be self-sufficient will decrease over time?
22Jun 2018
Moving Your Senior Loved Ones? Here Are Some Tips to Make the Process Smoother
Has the time arrived for a loved senior in your life to move to a new home? For many aging people, the solution to maintaining an independent lifestyle is downsizing – moving into a smaller, better-organized space that demands less day-to-day maintenance. Such a move can make things easier for those providing senior care in Philadelphia, PA, by reducing the workload and potentially bringing the senior loved one closer to home.
08Jun 2018
Physical Exercise Can Strengthen the Brain of Seniors Receiving Home Health Care Services in Philadelphia
When providing home health care services in Philadelphia to seniors, one of the most important goals is helping to keep both their minds and bodies healthy. As research shows, these things are more directly connected than many people realize and studies have shown that physical exercise has cognitive benefits. When you are providing home health care services in Philadelphia, always put a strong emphasis on helping your loved one maintain an exercise program suitable to his or her abilities.
25May 2018
Local Senior Care Provider Neighborly Home Care Wants the Public to Be Aware of Medicare Card Scams
May 25, 2018 – Philadelphia, PA – Beginning in April 2018, the US government began mailing out new Medicare cards to Medicare enrollees across the country. Senior residents in Pennsylvania are scheduled to receive their cards between April and June, 2018. The new cards are designed to help reduce the amount of fraud associated with Medicare cards and identity theft – but senior care provider, Neighborly Home Care believes enrollees and their families should be aware of the potential for scams.
10May 2018
Celebrate Aging in Pennsylvania During Older Americans Month
May is here, and that means Older Americans Month has arrived. Originally established during the Kennedy Presidency (as “Senior Citizens Month”), Older Americans Month is all about celebrating aging and the contributions which older Americans make. Whether you are providing home care for a senior citizen, or merely want to spend some extra quality time with older relatives in your family, Older Americans Month provides a great opportunity.