When is hospice recommended? Hospice care is a valuable resource for people who are living with life-limiting illnesses. When no longer able to be cured, ...

Providing palliative care at home brings with it the complexity of managing medications, supplies and equipment. The goal of palliative care is to provide ...

Before I joined the hospice where I currently work, I never knew what a hospice is and its purposes. I thought that it was a cool way of calling a hospital. ...

If there are two terms that I have found most of the patients that I take care either of at home or in the hospice misunderstand, it has to be hospice care ...

If you are a US citizen who has been taking care of your loved ones since they are disabled, have special medical needs or are veterans, then you need to ...

Technology comes in different forms. Every basic thing that you rely on runs on some form of technology. Sometimes I wonder how life was before it. Even when ...

Take it that you are on levodopa and carbidopa to help you alleviate the symptons of Parkison’s disease. It would get increasingly difficult to always ...

Bed alarms A bed alarm combines with a bed sensor or bed pad and operates through detecting a reduction of pressure when patients get out of bed. Bed ...

Do toddlers need bed rails? Yes. The main reason for toddlers to have rails is that most of them are so restless and need safety so as to sleep without any ...

One of my most trusted manufacturer  of adaptive tools  for elderly as well as handicapped people is sammons Preston. And so when I was ...

As we have already mentioned in other posts, a reacher grabber is a reaching aid used by elderly, handicapped or simply those people with mobility problems who ...

Vive Suction Reacher Grabber: Ideal for Changing Light Bulbs The first thing that attracted me to the vive reacher grabber was the fact that it would allow me ...