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Tips on Handling Criticism as a Caregiver

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Being a family caregiver for a senior loved one is tough enough without hearing complaints about your efforts. You sacrifice your time and energy to help, so whether it comes from friends, family, or even your special senior, it hurts. If you’re a primary caregiver for an aging loved one,  Calgary Home Care  has five time-tested tips to help you manage others' criticism. Evaluate Comments Objectively  Criticism can feel personal regardless of the critic’s intent, but it's often meant to be constructive irrespective of how it sounds. Before getting defensive, take a deep breath and a step back, review what was said, and consider if the critique has merit. Leave the Past Behind Caring for someone you love is a very personal mission, but no relationship is perfect. Family dynamics easily color communication between siblings, and that can make criticism feel like rejection. Emotional pain from disagreements long ago and extensions of other issues from the past tend

Importance of Vitamin C & Its Role in Healthy Aging

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Importance of Vitamin C & Its Role in Healthy Aging "People take vitamin supplements to get the nutrients that the body does not receive from the foods they eat. There are a variety of vitamins, and each one provides a specific nutritional value. Older adults need vitamins because their bodies have gone through various changes that make taking supplements necessary. From vitamins, A through K, and maybe even higher, vitamins supply the body with what it needs to remain healthy and ward off certain health issues. Vitamin C is found in many foods and is an important vitamin that serves many purposes. Calgary Home Care  throws some light on its importance;" Things to Know Ascorbic acid, or vitamin C, is water-soluble, and best known for the role it has in supporting a healthy immune system. Vitamin C is an essential vitamin for the repair and growth of tissues throughout the body. Vitamin C can help heal wounds, and help maintain healthy bones, skin, teeth, and car

Benefits of Reading as in the Golden Years

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Benefits of Reading as in the Golden Years From the early years of childhood, children learn the fundamentals and importance of reading. This skill continues to grow as people get older, and learn that reading has many benefits including relaxation. A good book and the mind can take a reader anywhere they want to go. They gain knowledge, inspiration, and insight from the words written on sheets of paper. Adults read for comfort and lose themselves in the pages of their specific genres. Older adults find that reading is a special hobby that they can engross themselves in while learning, or just enjoying a good book. Calgary home Care throws some light on the importance of book reading in the Golden years. Reading has many benefits for the older adult besides being a favorite past time. This hobby is like a friendly companion to an elderly adult. It can reduce anxiety while being very entertaining. Seniors can lose themselves in the many twists and turns that writing usually take
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Data Privacy Tips For the Elderly In the last couple of decades, computers, the internet, and cyberspace have become very familiar terms worldwide. People are building their lifestyles around the technological factors that presumably make life easier. Older adults are not too savvy when it comes to the internet. Family members will give them devices, but do not take the time to educate them on how they are used. Senior citizens will try using their computers and smartphones, but sometimes they find that they have compromised important information that leads to the senior being scammed, or in the middle of a fraudulent scheme where their identity is stolen, and their finances put in jeopardy.  Teaching your senior loved one how to properly use the internet, and what things to be aware of is essential for the safety of their private data. Starting with how to make sure that a URL is safe to click onto, to computer protection services are things that older adults should know. The

Easy Jobs Aging Adults Can Do

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Easy Jobs Aging Adults Can Do Older adults who have maintained an active lifestyle for years before retirement find it difficult to be idle with nothing productive to do. Spending time with the grand kids is good, but there is still void. Seniors want to be engaged in something that is meaningful to themselves and others. Being with family is great, but it lacks an aspect of life that seniors need. Older adults want to feel wanted and needed and to know that they are providing a service that is beneficial to others. In other words, older adults want to work. They are not quite ready to let go of the life experiences that they have earned. Getting back into the job market will help their zeal for life.  Jobs In Retail For Aging Adults  Many seniors are capable of doing work in the retail industry. The jobs are many, and most are very easy for older adults. Store greeters have become a popular position for the elderly. The only qualification needed is a winning smil

How to Identify and Report Elder Abuse

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Signs of elder abuse are often ignored by medical experts and home care providers. However, noticing these signs are important because seniors may not be able to report elder abuse on their own. Calgary home care   professionals discuss some of the most common signs of elder abuse and how to report them. Signs of Elder Abuse Elder abuse could be in the form of physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, financial exploitation, caregiver neglect, domestic violence, or any other means to harm a senior citizen. Since each type of elder abuse is different, the signs and symptoms also vary. Physical abuse results in pain. Seniors who experience this type of abuse may have scratches, bruises, broken bones, or brain trauma. In some cases, bodily exploitation indicates sexual abuse. These signs should be taken seriously. Financial abuse tends to have lasting effects on seniors. Typical signs include missing checks, massive withdrawals from bank accounts, missing credit cards, e