Diabetic Care
Diabetes occurs when not enough insulin is created by the pancreas or the body doesn’t respond well to the insulin. Insulin is necessary for the body to maintain blood sugar levels, ensuring that they don’t get too high. Without insulin, the glucose from the food you...
After Surgery Care & Caregiver Service
The recovery period after a surgery can be very frustrating, especially if you are ill-prepared for your return home. It’s important to ensure that life after surgery will be as effortless as possible – with your full focus on getting rest. Amber J. Tresca from...
Parkinson’s Care for Elderly, Senior, and Terminally Ill
At A-1 Home Care, we understand how difficult it may be to provide care for your Elderly or Senior loved one who has Parkinson’s Disease. The worry and frustration you feel when you can’t be there for them weighs you down so much that if negatively affects your other...
Post Stroke Care
A stroke occurs when a blood clot in an artery or blood vessel stops circulation from reaching a part of your brain, thus suffocating and destroying brain cells which may be crucial to movement, memory, or speech. The level of severity may vary and in a worst case...
24 Hour Home Care
Communication between a son or daughter and their parents can be difficult and stressful, especially when it seems like the message you’re trying to send always seems to be ignored – for example, bringing up assisted living facilities and your loved one changing the...
At Home Hospice Care
For Terminally Ill individuals, the process of dying is completely different nowadays from how it once was in the past. Instead of being an “event” that happens suddenly, the death is becoming more and more of an extended process. This article titled Stages of Grief:...
Senior Home Care Helpers
The holiday season is not always a happy time of year for everyone, especially for seniors whose loved ones have passed away this past year or in recent years. Christmas is not the same without their spouses, and if family and friends live far away, the elderly feel...
Cancer Care & Caregiver Service
One of the most difficult things that individuals with Cancer and their family and friends have to deal with is coping with the new change. Cancer survivors should strive to maintain a healthy lifestyle and regularly check up with their doctors. We understand that as...
Brain Injury Study Shows Promise for Damaged Neurons
When the cerebral cortex is damaged due to brain injury, stroke, Alzheimer’s, or other diseases, this portion of the brain is unable to produce new neurons to replace the lost brain cells. This portion of the brain is responsible for memory, perception, language,...