The Wiser Home Care Services Blog

Here, we provide a fresh look at current caregiving issues as well as share caregiving tips from our own personal experiences.

Although despised by many, Spring Cleaning is an important chore that will keep your elderly loved one healthy & safe. These Spring Cleaning tips will help.

5 Senior Friendly Spring Cleaning Tips

If you’re reading this blog it means you survived the first week of Daylight Savings Time. In fact, Spring is now upon us! This year, Spring officially started on Sunday March 20, and if you can’t tel...

During the daylight savings time change seniors are at a higher risk of experiencing a fatal accident or heart attack. These tips will keep your senior safe

4 Time Change Tips to Keep Your Elderly Loved One Safe

It only happens once a year and its arrival is often bittersweet. Even though an hour of sunlight is gained, it comes at the cost of an hour of sleep. Finally, if you live in Arizona or Hawaii then yo...

Heart attack statistics could cause a heart attack. Knowing the proper precautionary steps and symptoms greatly reduces your risk of experiencing one.

The Caregiver’s Guide to Reducing Heart Attack Risks

Even with the extra day, it felt like February flew by. Before we know it, it will be spring and the birds will be singing and the flowers will be blooming. Even though it is no longer officially Hear...

February is Heart Health Awareness. Heart disease is the #1 cause of death in the US. These heart tips will help keep your heart healthy.

The Guide to a Happy and Healthy Heart

Being the month of love and host to Valentine’s Day, it may come as no surprise to you that February is also national Heart Health Awareness Month. Even though heart disease is not a new thing, Nation...

Host to Valentine’s day, the month of February is often referred to as the month of love. These gift ideas will have your senior feeling the love.

Valentine’s Day Ideas For Seniors

The month of February is host to arguably the most romantic holiday, so it may come as no surprise that February is commonly referred to as the month of love. We mean, who wouldn’t love a holiday wher...

Although sundowners syndrome can occur at any time, it can worsen during the winter. These tips will help you care for your elderly loved one.

The Caregiver’s Guide to Managing Sundowners Syndrome

While the east coast was recently hit with snowmaggedon 2016, if you were to step outside here on the west coast you would probably think that early spring has begun. It’s true we have had a fairly mi...

Due to the influx of flu during winter it has been infamously dubbed flu season. These tips will keep your elderly loved one safe this flu season.

Five Flu Tips That Could Save Your Elderly Loved One’s Life

Due to the fact that the weather during winter forces people to often be in close proximity of others, the winter season has become synonymous with Flu Season. This week we continue our series on the...

Although Seasonal Affective Disorder can happen at any time, it is most prevalent during the winter. These tips can prevent your senior from having SAD.

The Senior’s Guide to Beating Seasonal Affective Disorder

The weather this week has certainly been interesting to say the least. One day it is blue skies and mildly warm then the next it is cloudy and cold. In fact, over the course of a couple minutes the we...

With the poor weather, the risk of your elderly loved one facing social isolation in the winter is greatly increased. These tips help reduce their risk.

6 Ways to Beat Social Isolation This Winter

The holidays are long gone and people are starting to settle into the busyness a new year brings. For many, this means new year’s resolutions routines, deadlines for wrapping up 2015 business and plan...

Slippery winter conditions greatly increases your elderly loved ones chances of a fall. These 8 tips could save their life!

8 Winter Fall Prevention Tips That Could Save Your Life

Here in the Pacific Northwest, it seems like the winter weather has gone from 0-100 in the matter of a couple days. One day it is raining then the next it is cold, snowing and icy. This kind of weathe...