At one point in time, we all experience back pain. For some, it was just exercising too hard or improperly lifting a box. These types of back pains are usually minor and the pain will subside with time and self-care. There are however, instances in which back pain is more serious and when medical care is needed.

When suffering from back pain, most individuals head to their primary care physician. If this is your only option, this is fine. But, if you have the financial resources needed to pay for your own appointments or if chiropractic care is covered by your health insurance, head to a chiropractor. Why? Because the care is better and safer.

What is chiropractic care? Chiropractic care is the natural practice of medicine. It relies on manual therapy. This involves the use of the hands. Medical tools, such as sonograms, x-rays, or MRIs, may be used to diagnose a problem, but the hands only usually provide treatment. Popular procedures performed by chiropractors include therapeutic massages and chiropractic adjustments. This involves using precise force to thrust a joint back into place or to extend it past its current ability to move.

How does treatment for back pain vary from traditional forms of health care? If you visit your primary care physician to seek pain relief, he or she will usually tell you to take an easy and prescribe pain medication. This only temporarily relieves the pain. Not all forms of back pain heal themselves. A slipped disk or another spinal or joint problem may be to blame. Pain pills and rest will not solve the problem, but chiropractors do. They will manipulate the spine and the back to elevate pain and improve mobility.

Does chiropractic care automatically mean ongoing care? No. Many people mistakenly believe that once you visit a chiropractor, you must continue going. Some chiropractors do recommend continued care, but not always. For example, if an adjustment or spinal manipulation is used, you may need to return for a small amount of therapy or just a follow-up appointment. During that appointment, your chiropractor will share ways to stop pain at home. This will include showing you how to properly lift boxes, sit at a computer and so forth. They may ask you to return in another six months to monitor the progress.

How does one find a chiropractor? Unless you already knew the benefits of chiropractic care, you might not have given chiropractors any thought. You may have driven by two or three offices a day and never noticed. It is easy to find chiropractors. They are everywhere. Your town or a nearby town should have at least two to choose from. As for how you can find them, local phonebooks, online business directories, insurance providers, recommendations from those you know, and by performing a standard internet search.

How does one choose a chiropractor? You now know how to find chiropractors, but how do you choose one? If covered by health insurance, check with your provider. Some offer moneysaving discounts to those who go with special in-network providers. If not, opt for a chiropractor who accepts your insurance. If uninsured, opt for the chiropractor with the most affordable rates or one who offers flexible payment plans.

In conclusion, if you suffer from back pain or discomfort, don’t suffer in silence any longer. Don’t just mask your symptoms. Recurring back pain is a sign that something is wrong. A licensed chiropractor cannot only find the problem, but treat it with no surgery, non-invasive procedures, and with no medication.

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Caring for Terminal Elders

Caregiving for elderly people is difficult in itself, but it proves to be more of a challenge when emotional hurdles become involved. This case is often true when family members or relatives of the elderly individual are assigned to nurse or care for them at home instead of entering them in adult care or nursing facilities. Emotional difficulties are further enhanced when the elderly you are nursing for has a terminal illness. It is really easy to be swept with emotion from both ends that could intervene with your effort to provide quality care.

Daily Care

Caring for terminally ill elders are often left at the responsibility of their children. However, with their own day jobs to take care of, it often requires proper daily schedule to ensure that their daily needs are properly taken care of. If their diseases are considered to be terminal, you can only do so much with the treatment procedure. However, you have control over providing an efficient daily care and nursing for them to suffice for their needs.

Coping with Depression

In a clinical and research study, experts have concluded that 25 percent of patients suffering from a terminal disease tend to exhibit symptoms of depression caused by multiple factors relating to their condition. Even without terminal illness, depression is a common occurrence among elderly individuals. This is a natural emotional result of their aging process, which leaves them with the impression of dependence, inability to become productive, and becoming a burden to their family or children. Therefore, despite the difficulty of in-home elderly care, several families opt for it instead of leaving their elderly loved ones to the care of sheltered accommodations or nursing homes. This reduces the level of depression on the older person’s part and reinforces the family’s genuine concern for them. But still, that does not solve the problem of depression associated with terminal illness.

One way to deal with depression is to provide any health or therapeutic services required for their condition. Although the chances of healing are limited, given that it has been diagnosed as terminal illness, seeing that you are extending all efforts to cure their condition combats minimize the feeling of depression in an elderly person. Why? This is achieved through their knowledge that all efforts are exerted in an effort to find cure. Normally, it isn’t the ability to find cure that relieves feeling of depression but the effort to try to.

Keeping Emotional Balance

With elderly care for those who have terminal illness, two forms of emotion often overcome the carer: pity and compassion. It is important, however, to balance those emotions to ensure that you are able to provide the best quality service to the terminally ill elder you are nursing. Pity will make you feel sorry for the elder, while compassion will allow you to become more sensitive of their needs and work your hardest in addressing them.

Here are important factors to keep your emotions in check and ensure that you provide quality elderly care and nursing:

• Focus your attention on providing for the needs of the elderly you are caring instead of becoming too engrossed with your emotions.

• Instead of dwelling on what you cannot change, focus on what you can do to help enrich their lives as of the moment.

• Let them experience the best of their remaining days.

Do you suffer from constant or severe headaches? If so, you may do what most Americans do. That is simply just reach for the medicine cabinet. Yes, most over-the-counter products can relieve headache pains, but that relief is short-lived. Instead of masking the pain with over-the-counter products, seek a proper diagnosis and long-term relief. You can do so with chiropractic care.

What is chiropractic care? It is a field of medicine. Some classify it as alternative medicine. It all depends on who you ask and their openness towards the subject. Traditional physicians rely on their knowledge, medical tools, and medication to treat pain. Chiropractors focus on manual therapy. The hands and usually the hands alone provide it. Common treatments offered by chiropractors include therapeutic massages and manipulative realignments.

Doesn’t a chiropractor only specialize in back pains? This is a common misconception. Chiropractors tend to focus on the spine, but you may be surprised how many ways the spine and its condition impacts our body. Many chiropractors have years of experience helping patients diagnose, treat, and manage all types of pain, including headache pain.

Why should you see a chiropractor if you suffer from severe or constant headaches? Headaches have many causes. Daily stress cause most, but there may be a more serious underlying problem. For example, those who have chronic muscle contractions may experience a spinal distortion, a cause of headaches. Car accident victims commonly suffer from whiplash. If improperly treated, this can also lead to headaches. Without treatment, the pain will continue and it may get worse overtime.

How does chiropractic care help headaches? It all depends on their cause. If everyday stress is to blame, a chiropractor may suggest relaxing exercises at home or regular in-office therapeutic massages. If headaches are caused by spinal distortion, a vertebrae alignment may be performed. This alleviates the pressure from nerves, which should reduce headache pain and frequency.

Will the headaches stop after seeking chiropractic care? Yes and no. First, it is important to remember that headaches are caused by many factors. If your cause is due to spinal distortion, vertebrae realignment will help. This will reduce the frequency of headaches caused by this specific problem. But, you may get another headache from just having a bad day at work. You and your chiropractor will work together to achieve long-term pain relief. In addition to therapeutic massages, trigger factors will be discussed. You will later need to avoid these triggers.

What should you ask your chiropractor after treatment? Many patients mistakenly believe they are treated and no longer need to seek treatment. Chiropractic care does not mean long-term care. Before parting ways, however, pick your chiropractor’s brain for suggestions to later prevent headache pain or lessens the severity. As previously stated, trigger factors need to be eliminated. Not only that, proper posture is important. This is a chiropractor’s specialty. Ask them about natural ways to prevent pain, including relaxation and proper posture.

In short, headaches have many causes. Daily stress is not the only cause. Don’t mask the pain. See what you can do to get long-term and long-lasting relief. So, the next time you get a severe, long-lasting, or recurring headache, don’t head to the medicine cabinet. Instead, head to your local phone book. Find the contact information for a local chiropractic care specialist and see what they can do for you.

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Many people may not take notice of diabetes symptoms because so many of them don’t seem serious enough to attach to an actual disease. Feelings of nausea, for instance, are felt by so many people so often and for such a wide variety of reasons that most people never even think to associate it with diabetes. And because we all seem to be working longer hours than ever before and having to get up earlier in an attempt to avoid spending an hour or two in traffic, feelings of fat…

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Many people may not take notice of diabetes symptoms because so many of them don’t seem serious enough to attach to an actual disease. Feelings of nausea, for instance, are felt by so many people so often and for such a wide variety of reasons that most people never even think to associate it with diabetes. And because we all seem to be working longer hours than ever before and having to get up earlier in an attempt to avoid spending an hour or two in traffic, feelings of fatigue and tiredness are usually associated with the price of living in the 21st century. Even the need to urinate more frequently usually goes unnoticed. The fact is, however, that all of these can point to the onset of diabetes.

One of the problems associated with recognizing diabetes symptoms is that the Type I version of the disease builds gradually. The first thing you may notice is the tiredness. While precious few of us don’t experience occasional bouts of fatigue, diabetes-related tiredness tends to be more noticeable. For one thing, the tiredness isn’t occasional; it lingers on and on. Even so, it may be very easy to ignore the severity of the fatigue and fail to associate it with diabetes.

Very often, a diabetes patient won’t begin to question his health until subsequent symptoms appear. The extreme fatigue begins to be accompanied by frequent thirst. Not just the usual kind of thirst where you may finish off a 20 ounce bottle in less than an hour, but an unusual thirst where you may go through two or more 20 ounce bottles in an hour.

But even a sudden spike in thirst can often be attributed to something else, such as perhaps the heat. Less likely to be so casually ignored, however, is one of the more extreme diabetes symptoms. Many patients experience feelings of intense hunger while they are losing weight. This is a symptom that is not typical of normalcy. Most people who are not on a diet and who are eating regularly don’t feel continually hungry while also losing weight. At this point, most people who have been ignoring other symptoms sit up and take notice. Additional diabetes symptoms that people tend to take notice of include blurred vision, frequent infections and sores that either take a long time to heal or don’t heal at all.

One of the problems in diagnosing diabetes is that not everybody experiences the same symptoms. Another problem is that symptoms can vary depending on whether you are suffering from Type I or Type II diabetes. Although both types share certain symptoms such as frequent urination, dry mouth and increased thirst, there are other symptoms that are usually unique to each type. For instance, weight loss with continued hunger is primarily associated with Type I. On the other hand, leg pain and yeast infections are common symptoms of Type II.

Those in charge with caring for an elderly parent or relative will go through physical and emotional hurdles involved with this difficult task. However, with proper knowledge of your choices and proper assessment of the situation and resources available to you, then you should not find it

Surviving Elderly Care

One of the best ways to cope with and survive the challenges of elderly care is to understand their situation. Put yourself in the elder’s shoes and try to understand how they feel about their given situation. You might be puzzled by any untoward behavior exhibited by an elderly person towards you, so you start to assess where that behavior is coming from. When members of the family reach a certain stage in their relationship with one another, trying to understand the emotional, mental, and spiritual changes in the relationship, if ever.

Surviving care for the elders in the family involves not only adapting to the physiological changes in their lives to better assess their needs. However, this need for attention is doubled by the fact that they have certain medical conditions that prevent them from fulfilling activities they normally do.

Coping With Depression

When your parents or any elderly family members require care at home, regular citizens and families are transformed into professional senior care institutions. With this type of responsibility, an individual is expected to provided care for 24 hours non-stop, especially for those with special conditions that need closer attention. Due to the immense challenge involved, some people could be so stressed out over the demands of elderly care that they end up feeling depressed.

Needless to say, caring for elderly is a major threat to the emotional and physical stability of an individual assigned for health care, especially with lack of proper health care knowledge. The source of stress comes from the demand that has to be met with her responsibility in caring for the elder and the inability to fulfill his or her own personal activities. This deprivation could indeed affect one immensely, which is why constant support from every member of the family is extremely important. If you’re the one dealing from the stress of having full responsibility for taking care of your aging parent, then try enlisting the help of your siblings to have their share of the workload. If you are the only child, then hiring professional care should help you get out of this stressful and depressing situation.

Coping With Costs and Financial Demands

Let’s face it, caring for an elder could be quite a financial challenge given the many needs that have to be met – from meal preparations, to medications, to hiring a professional senior care, and so much more. Here are suggested tips to lower the cost and make caring for your elderly parents more financially manageable:

• Come up with a plan on how you can reduce costs, whether it would be more practical to do home-care or join them in a nursing accommodation for professional elder care. Before deciding, you need to speak with your elderly parent to ensure that they agree with the decision.

• Seek contribution from every member of the family. This will help ensure that all resources for care are provided without being such a financial burden on a single person.

• In terms of medication, try purchasing generic medication wherein you can save a few. Also, look for senior discounts, which is beneficial when you are purchasing them in bulk.

• Take care of your body. The least that you’d like to happen is become ill yourself and add to the already increasing expenses.

Seeking Outside Help

A recent survey reveals that most American families do not pay for senior care services. Instead, they attend to caring for their elderly loved ones themselves at home wherein they must also juggle it with work and other family commitments. With so many things to attend to, it can be really difficult to provide the quality care and service as you would have wished for your elder family members that adds up to the pressure.

However, what every family must be aware of is that there are ways to get help. There are several adult caregivers out there that handle the services and care for your elders to reduce the burden on your part. Your choices include hiring a professional senior care at home or have your elderly loved ones stay in a sheltered accommodation with senior care professionals.

Home-based Care For Elders

Despite the increase of health care and elder care professionals or institutions, most people still opt for home-based care for elders. One of the most important consideration if you were to opt for in-home elderly care is to have family caregivers willing to provide assistance and attend to the needs of their elderly loved ones. Although the quality of service is not the same as the ones provided by medical professionals who train exactly for this type of care; however, your genuine concern and knowledge of their needs are essential to knowing how to fulfill those needs.

Home Care Essentials

Home-based care for the elderly is never an easy undertaking. However, it has its distinct advantage of being able to spend quality time with your elderly loved ones while caring for their daily needs. With a familiar surrounding, your elders do not have to adapt to changes in the environment and their communication patterns with whoever it is assigned to care for them. Caring for elderly at home is a major step that you can take to ensure that their non-medical needs are also met.

If you are not hiring a senior care professional, then members of the family must come up with a schedule that will determine a shifting as to who is responsible for taking care of the elder during given times within a day. An in-home elder care requires 24 hour care, thus one person cannot perform the task alone. Moreover, there are other areas to look into aside from the physical care and assistance provided to the elder, such as housekeeping, shopping, assistance in grooming or bathing, paying the bills, and others.

Pro’s and Con’s of Home Care

When it comes to caring for elderly, certain choices have to be made. When coming up with those decisions, you need to take into account several factors since they could impact not just the life of the elder, but yours (as the carer) as well. When you opt to care for the elderly at home, there are certain advantages involved, although some disadvantages are to be expected too. To determine whether you are suited to care for your elderly family member at home, here are some sets of pro’s and con’s you might want to consider:

Pro’s:

• You have more privacy when it comes to employing elderly caring methods that you and the elderly individual prefers. This also allows more independence in providing for their essential needs and demands.

• Even though are you caring for elderly at home, you can always have easy access to social service support whenever you want.

Con’s:

• It can be difficult to cope with the difficulties of caring for an elderly individual if you live away from relatives or other family members that can provide assistance in the care.

• You might need to modify the features and arrangements within the house in order to make it more convenient for you to provide care for the elderly.

Pro’s and Con’s of Professional Caregiving

Choosing to enroll your elderly loved ones in a sheltered or nursing accommodation has its own sets of benefits and pitfalls. Here are some for you to consider:

Pro’s:

• The physical arrangement and living condition is designed primarily to make it convenient for the elder and to easily provide for their needs.

• There is always someone to keep an eye over the elders and provide for their needs.

• Caring duties of your elderly loved ones are handed over to professionals who know exactly how to provide for their needs.

Con’s:

• You have to combat the emotional guilt involved with not having to personally look after the needs of your elderly loved ones.

• Finding the most reliable and trusted professional caregiving home can be a lot of work.

Personal injury (PI) practice differs from other law practice mainly because of financial requirements. In this kind of law practice, a lawyer have to spend his or her time and money getting the case ready for settlement or trial; then gets paid in a year or two, if the lawyer wins the case. Lawyers don’t necessarily get paid for all the time that they spend in the cases and have to do a lot of work. A PI lawyer usually needs to hire doctors, engineers, accident reconstruction experts, and other professionals needed to analyze critical issues and testify in court. If a lawyer happens to handle many cases, he would have a hard time managing these people and get them paid on time. Thus, a personal injury lawyer needs to generate money to have the capability of handling cases. Given the financial and personal risks involved, you must examine yourself if you can really tolerate such difficult situations before embarking on personal injury practice career.

Obtaining a favorable verdict at trial is harder for personal injury cases. Many states are implementing “tort reforms” legislation that places upper limits on the amount of claims of an injured person. Also, a lot of insurance companies and corporate defendants are less motivated to settle before trial. This means that you are most likely to go through the process of filing a lawsuit which entails expenses on filing fees, depositions, expert witnesses and other court costs for the lawyer and long wait for the court decision for the client. Sad to say, because of the long process, many clients end up settling for a fraction of what the case is really worth.

The public’s attitude towards personal injury cases is quite discouraging to law practitioners but the rewards of winning a case are enormous. Oftentimes, we heard news on insurance fraud, scams, and conspiracies involving personal injury lawyers, doctors, and their clients. But on the bright side of things, nowhere in the practice of law is there more of a David versus Goliath scenario than a person on a court battle with gigantic insurance company or corporation. PI lawyers come in different personality types, interests, aptitudes, strengths and weaknesses but practicing this profession can give you an opportunity to help other people who are wronged and truly in need. There is no better feeling in the world than having put up with all that abuse from the other side and having his or her cause validated by a jury. With this, you gain a measure of confidence and assurance that will motivate you to stay in the game for a longer time. If you can manage your practice wisely, then you will be able to experience moments of triumph constantly.

It is quite possible to be successful personal injury lawyer without handling high-risk cases. You can opt for handling routine cases that requires you to go to court once or twice a year. You can also consider working first with a lawyer or firm that handles personal injury cases before going out on your own. When you have decided to go on your own, always remember to keep the following solid foundation to achieve success in the law practice:

Commitment – You must always work hard to make your practice succeed.

Management – You must always manage wisely your time, money and people.

Adequate capital – Since personal injury law practice requires you to risk finances, you might need to gamble your own money first before reaping monetary gains. In this practice, you cannot expect to get rich but you can try investing your wealth in other ventures not connected to the practice of the law if you want to have other income.

You must have the sincere desire to do the right thing for your clients.

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Many of the vitamins like Vitamin B complex, Thiamine or Vitamin B1 and Pyridoxine or Vitamin B6 are great controller of diabetes. Other vitamins like vitamin C and vitamin E also works great in controlling diabetes.

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Many of the vitamins like Vitamin B complex, Thiamine or Vitamin B1 and Pyridoxine or Vitamin B6 are great controller of diabetes. Other vitamins like vitamin C and vitamin E also works great in controlling diabetes. Have a look on the benefits how they can help you controlling your diabetes.

Vitamin C – Vitamin C is considered highly beneficial in treating diabetes. Because of stress, urinary losses and destruction by artificial sweeteners, the vitamin C requirement is usually high in diabetics. Large amounts of this vitamin sometimes bring very good results. Dr. George V Mann in Perspective in Biology and Medicine recommended extra vitamin C for diabetics. Natural insulin output increases in diabetics with supplementary doses of vitamin C.

The intake of vitamin C in the form of dried Indian gooseberry (amla), the richest known source of vitamin C, or tablets of 500 mg or from natural sources of vitamin C besides amla, are citrus fruits, green leafy vegetables, sprouted Bengal gram and green grams.

Vitamin E – This vitamin reduces considerably the devastating vascular damage accompanying diabetes. Dr. Willard Shute in The Complete Book of Vitamins recommends 800-1600 IU of vitamin E a day to prevent arterial degeneration in diabetes.

A Swedish study also supports vitamin E therapy for treating diabetes. Vitamin E helps diabetics decrease their insulin requirements. It would be advisable for a diabetes patient to take a daily dose of 200 IU of this vitamin for a fortnight at a time.
Rich Sources of Vitamin E. Valuable natural foods sources of this vitamin are wheat or cereal germ, whole grain products, fruits and green leafy vegetables, milk and all whole raw or sprouted seeds.

Other rich sources of vitamin E are cold pressed crude vegetable oils, especially sunflower seeds, safflower, and Soya beans oils, raw and sprouted seeds and grains, alfalfa, lettuce, almond, human milk etc.

Vitamin A – Diabetics are unable to convert beta-carotine to vitamin A. A supplement of this vitamin, therefore, becomes necessary. A dose of 15000 IU on alternate days is considered adequate by some authorities.

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Heredity is a major factor of diabetes. That diabetes can be inherited has been known for centuries. However, the pattern of inheritance is not fully understood. Statistic indicates that those with a family history of the disease have a higher risk of developing diabetes than those without such a background. The risk factor is 25 to 33 percent more.

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Certain factors that contribute to the development of diabetes are

Heredity

Heredity is a major factor. That diabetes can be inherited has been known for centuries. However, the pattern of inheritance is not fully understood. Statistic indicates that those with a family history of the disease have a higher risk of developing diabetes than those without such a background. The risk factor is 25 to 33 percent more.

One reason why diabetes, especially type-2 diabetes runs in the family is because of the diabetes gene. But even it is caused by genetic factors beyond your control; there is no reason to suffer from it. Diabetes mellitus cannot be cured in full sense of the term, but it can be effectively controlled so that you would not know the difference.

Diet

Diabetes has been described by most medical scientists as a prosperity?disease, primarily caused by systematic overeating. Not only is eating too much sugar and refined carbohydrates harmful, but proteins and fats, which are transformed into sugar, may also result in diabetes if taken in excess.

It is interesting to note that diabetes is almost unknown in countries where people are poor and cannot afford to overeat.

The incidence of diabetes is directly linked with the consumption of processed foods rich in refined carbohydrates, like biscuits, bread, cakes chocolates, pudding and ice creams.

Obesity

Obesity is one of the main causes of diabetes. Studies show that 60 to 85 % of diabetics tend to be overweight. In the United States of America, about 80 percent of type ? non-insulin dependent diabetics are reported to be overweight.

Excess fat prevents insulin from working properly. The more fatty tissue in the body, the more resistant the muscle and tissue cells become to body insulin. Insulin allows the sugar in the blood to enter the cells by acting on the receptor sites on the surface of the cells.

Older people often tend to gain weight, and the same time, many of them develop and mild form of diabetes because who are over weight can often improve their blood sugar simply by losing weight.

Stress and Tension

There is a known connection between stress and diabetes mellitus, those who are under stress and/or lead an irregular lifestyle, need to take adequate precautions and make necessary lifestyle adjustments.

Grief, worry and anxiety resulting from examinations, death of a close relative, loss of a joy, business failure and strained marital relationship, all a deep influence on the metabolism and may cause sugar to appear in the urine.

Smoking

Smoking is another important risk factor. Among men who smoke, the risk of developing diabetes is doubled. In women who smoke 25 or more cigarettes a day, the risk of developing diabetes is increased by 40 percent.

Lifestyle Risk

People who are less active have greater risk of developing diabetes. Modern conveniences have made work easier. Physical activity and exercise helps control weight, uses up a lot of glucose (sugar) present in the blood as energy and makes cells more sensitive to insulin. Consequently, the workload on the pancreas is reduced.

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Caring for elderly involves lot of work and continued assessment of the needs of an aging person. But with the vast options available in terms of elderly care, choosing the best option is a lot trickier than you might have anticipated. Below are some of your best choices and assessment for each option.

Nursing Home

This particular elderly care facility provides services from skilled nurses who are trained to provide quality medical care for elderly individuals who need close medical attention. It can either be associated with a hospital or serve as a standalone facility.

Pro’s:

• Nursing homes are staffed with professional health and nursing care providers willing to provide assistance and service 24 hours a day.

• They can meet other seniors and create a sense of community.

• It is highly regulated by law to ensure the safety and well-being of all nursing care elder participants.

Con’s:

• Handing over the caring duties of your elderly parents to a nursing home can be quite expensive.

• For elderly individuals who are suffering from illnesses that result to them becoming bed-ridden, the inability to interact with other adult participants and being away from family can produce a feeling of isolation.

• Elderly participants are required to adapt to the new living conditions structured within the facility.

Sheltered Accommodations

This is similar to senior housing wherein aside from shelter, health and personal care services are also provided. It has a more independent living structure than most nursing homes, which is why most families of elderly patients opt for this one.

Pro’s:

• Living arrangements are designed specifically to suit the needs of an elder.

• There is someone to keep an eye on them at all times.

• Sense of community

Con’s:

• You still have to take care of the shopping and meal preparation for your elderly loved one.

• Warden are not solely responsible for the care and supervision of the participants.

Adult Day Care Center

This particular facility is non-residential as opposed to the ones listed above. Instead, it only allows companionship and elderly care during the day, when most of the elderly individual’s family members are away from home either for work or school. Senior caregivers provide social or health services for participants and costs are comparably cheaper than other facilities since services are limited.

Pro’s:

• Staffs are trained nurses or caregivers.

• You can still attend to your day job while you are ensured of the day care for your elderly parents.

• Several options for services, whether social, health, or therapeutic, according to the needs of the elder.

Con’s:

• Elderly individuals might feel neglected and abandoned whenever left off by family members at the center each day.

• Some adult day care centers do not provide individualized treatment for each elderly participant.

In-Home Care

This option provides medical care right at the home of the elder. This is one of the more common options that families caring for elderly are choosing because it allows them to closely monitor the condition of the elderly loved one.

Pro’s:

• You are assured that only quality service and care are provided for your aging parents.

• It provides an opportunity to nurture your relationship with family member and the elderly loved one.

Con’s:

• It entails a lot of work, especially for the elderly care provider.

• It often results to the caregiver suffering from illnesses or emotional struggles due to the immense responsibility involved with elderly care at home.

• It is a financial burden given the costs needed to fund all the expenses involved in taking care of elderly at home.