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Broad Street Insights is a helpful blog on modern concierge home care, carefully curated by our expert team.
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Bone Health and Fracture Prevention for the Elderly
You don’t need to be diagnosed with Osteoporosis in order to consider the health of your bones. Being aware of nutrition and exercise can build confidence in your ability to remain healthy and prevent fracture.
Ways to Turn Your Daily Activities into Exercise Moves
We know that daily activity can add up, but have you ever considered how it might become an exercise routine in itself? In addition, there are ways to do these activities that can prevent physical strain or damage. Here are some tips for how to consciously target your efforts to maximize fitness.
What is a CNA?
At Broad Street, we refer to our CNAs as Personal Assistants because they provide personal care, active companionship, assistance with household needs and overall support in the home – the idea is that they can help beyond the basic necessities, to focus on enhancing overall quality of life.
Happy Feet
Our feet are the underdog of our physical history; they have carried us for years. We tend to forget how much they have worked for us and as we age, we need to give them a bit more love and appreciation.
Creating a Medical Profile Document
Having all of your medical information in one concise format, in a document you keep in your home, can be very helpful for family and current/future caregivers; particularly during new doctor appointments where medical history isn’t already documented in the provider system.
Optimizing Your Visit to the Doctor
As your doctor gives you information about your health, it’s a good idea to make sure that you understand it and that you will be able to remember it.
Reframing Aging
How do we, as a society, get away from the negative idea of inevitable deterioration in age and start to embrace an idea of happy, healthy and financially comfortable?
Home Safety – Improving the Home Environment
There are some things you can do with a quick trip to a hardware store, to better equip the home of an elder.
Define Your Role as Caregiver
Are you in an infrequent caregiver role? Our Personal Assistants can offer respite care or companionship. As an extension of the Broad Street team, we also work with a larger professional network of high quality health service providers.
Medication Management – Things to Consider
As one ages, the medicine in the bathroom cabinet starts to fill up pretty quickly to address additional health challenges. Over time it can be difficult to keep track of the prescription history. To avoid further complications it’s important to keep a few things in mind if you’re helping an elder parent or a loved one.
Nutrient Dense Foods – Add Them Into Your Rotation
Ddid you know that certain foods, while varied in their makeup of nutrients, actually provide more nutrients for their volume than other foods? Welcome to Nutrient Dense Foods!
Long-Term Care Insurance – Factors to Consider
Long-Term Care Insurance, like any insurance policy, is presented as a tool to help you. In the end, it’s still a consumer product. You want to find the product that will get you the benefits you need AND secure the right investment landscape for you and your family in the process.
Aging as an Asset, Not a Liability
Aging well is an honor and while we continue to take care of our own health, it’s equally important to honor the experience of our elders and help them age well.
Sundowning Syndrome – Tips to Manage
Many people with Alzheimer’s disease experience sundowning—restlessness, agitation, irritability, or confusion that can begin or worsen as daylight begins to fade. The symptoms typically include agitation, restlessness, irritability, confusion, disorientation and suspicious attitude. There are a few things you can do as a caregiver to ease the situation for both you and the individual affected by Alzheimer’s.
Staying Active. Make it a Long Term Goal
Broad Street Home Care can help you actively support a new exercise routine with the help of our personal assistants who will help monitor your progress and help motivate you to stay on track and set new goals.
Three Things Everyone Should Know About Home Care
The need for care affects everyone. And although it is as inevitable as aging itself, it is often a topic most of us would prefer to avoid. We thrive on our independence, resisting the need for help. As a result, by the time we are forced to confront it, it is often so disruptive that we find our choices limited to a few desperate alternatives.
Fall Prevention: The Cornerstone of Effective Home Care
I am an RN at Broad Street who has seen and worked in people’s homes as a home care nurse. I am amazed at the number of life changing injuries resulting from falls that could have been avoided had simple preventative measures been taken.
Healthy Eating at Home: Fuel for Healthy Senior Living
As a leader in home care, it is Broad Street’s mission to ensure our members age successfully, remaining active and engaged in life and with family for years to come. The question is how do we reach this goal?
Broad Street Introduces the Stay Young Program
The Stay Young Program combines physical exercise, healthy nutrition and mental stimulation into a defined program designed to improve overall health and independence, all in the comfort of our clients’ homes.