NHC Senior Care in Philadelphia Offers 4 Ways to Stay Active This Spring!

When you are involved in senior care in Philadelphia, PA, you know how hard encouraging seniors to stay active during the long cold months can be.  Fortunately, the weather is finally starting to warm up!  That is good news because uncountable studies have linked senior physical fitness to healthier living and a better quality of life. Every senior is different, but plenty of options exist which afford seniors at all levels of mobility a chance to enjoy the spring sunshine. 4 Great Springtime Activities for Seniors Gardening Gardening might seem like a pleasant hobby rather than exercise, but the pastime is actually quite good as a cardiovascular activity.  Since spring is planting season for many common herbs and vegetables, this is an excellent opportunity to get outside and work the soil.  A garden gives seniors something they can care for throughout the season. If the senior in your life has issues with his/her knees or back, look to create tabletop plantings[...]

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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.

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What You Should Know About Caregiver Burnout

On any given day, an approximate 40 million Americans are providing unpaid care to elderly friends or family members.  This wonderful selfless act shows just how much they love the older people in their lives – but this also puts them at high risk of caregiver burnout.  Providing care, particularly long-term care, can be extremely stressful.  Worse, this stress can slowly build up over time, until the caregiver is near a “boiling point,” but without entirely realizing how stressed they are.

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Common Caregiver Problems: A Series with Solutions – Part 5 – Sibling Rivalry

When providing care for an aging or disabled parent, having siblings can often be a blessing since more people are available to help with care and issues that can arise. When a family can truly pull together, set aside any differences, and focus on what is best for the parent, the job of caregiving can become much easier. Unfortunately, because of the stress involved in caregiving, these sorts of situations can also turn sour. Old grievances are brought up, bad blood is remembered, and sibling rivalries can start to threaten the arrangement.  

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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?

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Common Caregiver Problems: A Series with Solutions – Part 4 – Your Health

If you are providing care for an older person or an adult with a disability, you are far from alone.  The AARP estimates that over 40 million Americans are acting in the role of caregiver for someone, usually a close friend or family member.  Unfortunately, most of these caregivers are doing this without proper training or support, and that can cause big health problems.

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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.

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The 2019 Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment Period Is Here – What You Need to Know

Once again, Medicare Advantage is open for enrollment or for current participants to change their Medicare plans. This year is notable for people who are providing or receiving home care in Philadelphia because one major change is that Medicare Advantage insurers can now reimburse for in-home services.

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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. 

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Common Caregiver Problems: A Series with Solutions – Part 2 – You vs. Your Emotions

Any caregiver agency in Philadelphia will tell you that being a caregiver takes an emotional toll, especially when the care responsibility falls upon one person full time. A caregiver will have to face and overcome emotional challenges, if they are to continue providing effective care. 

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