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Redefining a Sense of Purpose in the Senior Years

Search online for “activities for seniors” and you're guaranteed to find numerous crafts, games, memory stimulation puzzles, and naturally, the requisite bingo. What you will not find, unless you really search much more, are the significant, beneficial activities that bring meaning to our lives. And yet, if you ask older individuals what they would most like to do, most of them won’t choose bingo, crafts and games. What they want most of all is to feel useful. The University of Minnesota details how the most vulnerable times in our lives are the first year of life, and a person's first...

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What Home Care Services Can a Professional Home Care Agency Provide?

In our last blog post, we shared the positive aspects of utilizing a professional in-home care agency to provide the highest quality and safest level of home care services in the west suburbs of Chicago. But specifically, what types of home care services are available to help older individuals remain safe and thriving at home? If you have decided that it’s time to search for in-home help for an older family member, there are a number of customized home care services available. The following information can help you narrow down the specific type of help your loved one requires: Household...

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Choose a Professional Home Care Agency for Ease of Care

When you are looking for in home care for elderly loved ones, there are many available possibilities, and deciding where to turn can be overwhelming. For example, should you work with a professional home care agency, a privately hired caregiver, or use a caregiving registry? And how can you figure out which home care option is optimal for your loved one’s specific requirements? There are advantages and disadvantages with most choices, but when it comes to in-home care, the solution is clear: hiring a professional elder care agency like Home & Hearth Caregivers is the ideal choice for the highest...

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Have Diabetes? Learn the Steps to Protect Your Kidneys

Did you know…diabetes is the #1 cause of kidney failure? In fact, as many as 40 percent of those with diabetes will develop chronic kidney disease. What is the relationship between diabetes and kidney disease? Our kidneys, in addition to balancing chemicals in the body, controlling blood pressure and keeping our bones healthy, also remove waste and extra fluid from the blood. The filters in the kidneys are full of very small blood vessels (called glomeruli), which can be harmed by high blood sugar levels, leading to diabetic kidney disease. Once kidney damage occurs, it can’t be fixed, and if...

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Chronic Kidney Disease Doesn’t Mean You Need to Leave Home

For older adults who prefer to remain in the comfort of home as they grow older – and, who doesn’t? – in-home care, like that offered by the Orland Park IL in home care providers at Home & Hearth Caregivers, offers a lifeline, providing help with activities that become challenging with aging and allowing for safety, security and independence. But what happens when a senior is battling chronic kidney disease? Home care is not only possible for seniors with kidney disease; it’s preferred. Take into consideration some of the many ways that a professional in-home caregiving team can assist those...

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Kidney Disease Nutrition Strategies Help Reduce Symptoms

As the saying goes, you are what you eat, and for individuals with kidney disease, it’s even more vital that a proper nutritional plan be put into practice in order to reduce symptoms, such as nausea, pain, swelling and others, and to perhaps even slow down the advancement of the disease. Oak Brook, IL home care provider, Home & Hearth Caregivers advocates for the following kidney disease nutrition strategies to consider (pending approval from your physician): Salt/Sodium Elevated amounts of sodium in the diet can cause the body to retain fluids, raise blood pressure and make the heart work harder....

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The Best Home Care for Seniors
in the Chicago, IL Area

At Home & Hearth Caregivers, we are proud to offer compassionate, family-like in-home care, respite care, and Alzheimer’s and dementia care services to seniors and families throughout Cook, DuPage, Will, Lake, McHenry Counties, including the following cities and towns:

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