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From Care to Compassion: A Comprehensive Guide for New Caregivers of Stroke Patients
Stepping into the role of a caregiver can be an overwhelming task. It’s often uncharted territory, particularly if you’re caring for a loved one who recently suffered a stroke. It may not be easy, but hopefully, these suggestions will help you navigate this journey more smoothly. Decoding the Stroke Every stroke is different. They vary…
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Navigating the Path of Dementia Care: A Practical Guide for New Caregivers
When our cherished ones receive a dementia diagnosis, we can feel as though we’ve been gently nudged onto a path that feels undeniably foreign and intimidating. It’s a journey filled with a profound blend of emotions, a unique medley of love, fear, uncertainty, and courage. To help you navigate this uncharted territory, we’ve lovingly collated…
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Seniors and the Importance of Sleep
Sleep is a key component in our brain’s abilities to form & retain memories. For seniors wanting to maintain strong cognitive function, good sleep is absolutely essential. Why does sleep quality for seniors deteriorate? With age, sleep quality tends to deteriorate. Our sleep is broken up into phases such as light sleep, deep sleep, and…
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Best Phones For Elderly
Finding a great smartphone for elderly in Singapore is a very good idea, especially if you want to stay in touch with your parents often. What you need to keep in mind is that a great handphone for elderly doesn’t have to be complex. Older people don’t need a lot of functions. Instead, their focus…
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Top tips to help your elderly family members avoid scams
Every year, the elderly and seniors become the number one target of financial fraudsters as they don’t know how modern technology works. To protect your parents and grandparents from scammers and con artists, it is essential to make them aware of such problems and teach them how to protect themselves. Follow the tips below to…
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How to get your elderly non tech-savvy parent started with social media on a smart device
Introducing your elderly parents to the world of social media can cure their boredom and help them regain their sense of wonder. It’s not so difficult once you set up a suitable smart device and configure their social media accounts. Teach them slowly by starting with the basics and be patient too. Follow the steps…
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The 5 Best Tech Gift Ideas for the Elderly
Sending useful gifts to your elderly loved ones during their birthday, a holiday, or any other special occasion can be a great way to express your love. Typical gifts for elderly include tea sets, home decorating supplies, shavers, household accessories, framed family photos, books with large text, gardening tools, crocheting kits, and other such products. However, gifting…
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Guidelines to teach your elderly parents how to video call with different apps
Whether it’s the pandemic or during regular times, teaching your elderly parents to video call can help them to connect with you and get on the family video conference. It’s a fulfilling experience that fills you with pride both for your parents and for you. However, it requires time, patience, and persistence. Here’s how you…
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A guide to teaching elderly parents how to use a smartphone
Have you ever wondered how eight-year-olds can intuitively use smartphones whereas seniors with rich life experience find it difficult to understand them? The elderly are ‘digitally unprepared’ because they grew up without the help of such technology. Teaching them can be difficult but it is important if you don’t want to deprive them of all…
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Success Story: Find Out Why Angelina Bought SilverPad For Her Mother
I was looking for a software (or App) that was both portable and easily accessible, and something friendly, even my mother could learn to use on her own, with minimal hassle…I was soon convinced that the SilverPad is exactly the digital-tablet solution that had all the features I sought – portability, accessibility, versatility and manageability.…
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7 Things To Do During Dialysis For Elderly
Dialysis is a treatment that replicates the functions of the kidneys by removing toxins, wastes and excess body fluids from the body. There are two main types of dialysis: hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. The effectiveness of these two types of dialysis is comparable but the working principles are quite different. What happens during kidney dialysis?…
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3 Tips to Prevent Falls Among the Elderly
By The Golden Concepts Falls are particularly prevalent among the elderly, and are detrimental as they often lead to immobility, difficulty performing daily activities and even take a toll on both mental and emotional health. With access to the right information and by installing the appropriate fall- proof products at home, falls can be prevented.…
