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Seven Tips to Improve Communication with Your Parent’s Caregivers

A team approach will benefit your loved one. Family members as well as aides who communicate clearly and regularly will create a warm, nurturing environment in the home of the patient. Moreover, she or he will thrive when everyone gets along, shares information, and does fun things together. Decide on one primary family member who […]

The Good News about Midlife Resilience

Take heart! Middle-aged people are copers and are resilient. They have a better ability to regulate emotions. Their perspectives garnered from years of experience. They have acquired the long view because they tend to take the future into account as well as the past. They are thus possibly more resilient than those who are younger, […]

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How to Manage Your Home Health Aide

Managing your Home Health Aide So you have the help. That’s a big step. Caring Professionals’ team has matched you with an aide that speaks your language and whose temperament will work with the patient. The schedule has been worked out for the convenience of both patient and aide. A plan of care has been […]

Is it Time for a Geriatrician or a Gerontologist?

What is the difference between a Geriatrician and a Gerontologist, and why now might be the right time to find out? First, let’s distinguish between these two. A geriatrician is a medical specialist in the care of older adults. The bodies of older adults are different and therefore doctors with specialized training for a year […]

The Realities of CDPAP

The Realities of CDPAP What is CDPAP really like? Enrollment in this popular program, CDPAP, is both an opportunity and a challenge for a family. The CDPAP program provides a consumer a particularly safe way to receive care. She can have family or neighbors enter her home and tend to her needs. She can be in charge. […]

A QUICK GUIDE to joining the CDPAP Program in New York

Call Caring Professionals’ CDPAP hotline at 718 307 6270 if you need to talk to an expert please. What is CDPAP? Find out more about CDPAP from our CDPAP Articles and CDPAP Guides

Stress Less with CDPAP Home Care

How the CDPAP Program can help you stress less about your parent’s home care. Everyone is talking about caregiver stress. The national periodicals feature stories about midlifers caught between caring for aging parents and their own children. Legislators are talking about relief through tax credits for caregiving children. Co-workers, friends, and church members are talking […]

Why Your Senior Doesn’t Want to Move

Aging in Place with Home Care There comes a time in most family’s lives when a decision needs to be made about long-term living arrangements. Parents get older. The adult children often don’t live close by. The parents may be in a retirement community or in a community where they have lived and worked. Infirmities creep […]