In-Home Care for Seniors with Lupus

In-Home Care for Seniors with Lupus

What is Lupus? Lupus is an autoimmune disease that attacks the skin, joints, heart, lungs, blood cells and brain.  Generally speaking, this disease attacks women of child-bearing age, but seniors can still develop elderly-onset lupus.  Symptoms are a little different...
Save Your Marriage with Home Care

Save Your Marriage with Home Care

At A-1 Home Care, we know that family is important to you.  That’s why you have taken the time to find solutions for your elderly loved ones rather than ignore their problems.  They are not yet at the stage of needing help with basic needs like bathing and oral...
The Importance of Skincare

The Importance of Skincare

Skin cancer is still cancer. Most do not classify it as “important” or even as “cancerous,” however, it is one of the most common cancers today. There are ways to prevent skin cancer such as wearing sunblock and reapplying it, say if you are spending the day at the...
Care at Home for Seniors

Care at Home for Seniors

Many factors can lead to stroke like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, etc.  Now, add psychosocial distress to that list.  According to studies highlighted in this article from the American Heart Association, the risk of stroke death increases for...
Caregiving for Stroke Victims

Caregiving for Stroke Victims

Before your Elderly or Senior loved one had a stroke, you might not have been aware of certain lifestyle factors that caused the stroke.  You might not have known that your loved one didn’t get enough exercise, ate poorly, or had high blood pressure or cholesterol....
Working Out and Staying Fit

Working Out and Staying Fit

Do you find yourself tired often? Are you getting enough sleep? Did your doctor mention that working out could help with that…? It was recently reported that more than ninety-seven percent of Americans are said to be “unhealthy.” Approximately fifty percent are obese....