The days are getting short and the nights are getting longer, at least that’s the way it feels with the lack of daylight hours. In fact, the shortest ‘day’ of the year, also known as the winter solsti...
Recently, we have blogged on the several forms of care Wiser Home Care Services offers. We have explored care options such as personal care, companion care, dementia care, self care and most recently,...
Whether it is by choice or due to tight finances, many people choose to forgo putting an elderly or sick loved one in a care facility and opt to take on the responsibility of caregiver. In the United ...
Depending on who you talk to, you will get a differing opinion on when the holiday season officially starts. Some will tell you that the holiday season starts when you first start shopping for present...
For loved ones, patients and caregivers alike, dementia can be a difficult and scary disease to live and work with. We decided several weeks ago that it would be helpful to share our knowledge of deme...
This week in our blog we will explore in depth the form of dementia most commonly known as Parkinson’s. According to the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation (PDF) over 1 million Americans live with this fo...
The mornings are frosty, nights are crisp and the leaves are turning colors and falling. Not only was yesterday the first official day of fall, it also marked the 8th annual Falls Prevention Awareness...
Last week we began our blog series on caring for people with dementia. We discussed what one may expect to encounter and briefly touched on three of the main forms of dementia. Each of these forms of ...
Have you ever had a lapse of memory and innocently joked about having a “senior moment”? You’re not alone. A lot of people believe that loss of memory is just a fact of aging. However, even though dem...
A combination of long stretches of hot weather and a lack of precipitation has made this summer one for the record books here in the Pacific Northwest. In fact, with only .23 inches of precipitation i...