Senior Minute – Episode #1

Home Care in Arizona is producing a series of short videos entitled “Senior Minutes”.  These videos will be aimed at those who are personally involved with providing home care for an aging parent or loved one.

We will explore all the issues that family home care givers are dealing with including safety, dealing with dementia, medical issues, mobility, driving concerns and many others.

Here is our first video.
This episode of “Senior Minute” is target at Family Home Care Providers.  What is a “Family Home Care Provider”?  If you are taking care of an elderly parent, relative or loved one, then YOU are your families home care provider or caregiver.

In this episode we you three tips on being the  family caregiver:

1. Accept the offer of help. – If family or friends are offering to help you with the care giving of your loved one do not hesitate to except that help but have a specific job in mind for them.
2. Seeking Advice – There is so much information available on the internet these days.  Do an internet search for such terms as “home care” or “senior care giving” or “tips for family care givers”.  Make sure to bookmark the sites you find with reliable information.  We also suggest you sign up for our newsletter as each month we send out valuable information.
3. Take Time Off For Yourself – Care giving is a job.  Everyone needs a vacation from their jobs now and then.  Take the time to recharge your batteries.  If you don’t have anyone in your life to step in and pick up the slack while you are gone then consider getting help from a home care agency.

Please enjoy the first episode of “Senior Minute”.

We home you have enjoyed this episode of “Senior Minute”.  We look forward to bringing you more quality information on home care and home care services in Arizona.  If you have any comments or suggestions for future episodes please leave them in the comments area below.

This “Senior Minute” was brought to by:

Visiting Angels Northwest Valley

Providing quality and affordable home care to:
Peoria • Surprise • Glendale
and the Northwest Phoenix Area