#aging experience

How Do YOU Feel About Aging?

The Wall Street Journal has a very good article on aging, titled, “To Age Well, Change How You Feel About Aging“. While some of it is, okay, just common sense, a good portion is really thought stimulating.

We all understand the importance of attitude in our lives. This article reinforces that:

In test after test, researchers are finding that if we think about getting older in terms of decline or…

Nurses Take Step Forward!

An article at HealthITAnalytics.com takes a big step in the right direction, concerning making Electronic Health Records (EHR) more valuable in the provision of health care. The American Academy of Nursing issued a policy statement that EHR “are incomplete and potentially insufficient for use in population health management programs when they are missing social and behavioral data…”

Thought…

I wrote a bit ago about the fact that Support For Home In-Home Care is certified by the Music & Memory organization – and we are delighted by that. The program was designed for use in facilities, and it is rather more complex to implement and administer in multiple home care settings, which is one reason we are among only a few home care agencies to be certified.

However, the benefits of Music &…

Another Perspective on Aging

When you are in the elder care industry, you tend to have a very serious and “politically correct” perspective on the issues of aging. Frankly, we always will, at Support For Home In-Home Care. The issues we face and that our moms, dads, aunts and uncles, grandparents and friends face, as they age themselves or concerning their loved ones, are real.

The aging experience certainly contains its…