Home Instead Senior Care
State College-Saxton

Central PA seniors now have a new resource to help them age successfully. Crystal Little, CSA, with Home Instead Senior Care, earned the designation of Certified Senior Advisor (CSA)^®.  

Are you one of the millions of family caregivers struggling with trying to take care of mom and dad from a distance? Family caregivers creates stress and long distance caregiving really adds to the normal stresses of caring for a loved one. Home Instead Senior Care has partnered with the American Society on Aging to provide you with an educational webinar on this very topic!

According to a Home Instead Senior Care survey, 45% of American adults who plan to care for an aging relative in the next two to four years live one or more hours away.

For most older adults in long-term care, nursing homes are the last places they will ever live, and many give up hope on ever returning to home.

However, a Cornell evaluation project finds that a person-centered approach shows great promise in helping nursing home residents move back to the community, allowing nearly 60 percent of study participants to successfully return home.

Rose Marie Leacock has been selected by the headquarters of Home Instead Senior Care, in Omaha Nebraska as their Regional CAREGiver of the Year for the Great Lakes Region. Rose is being recognized for extraordinary service to the homebound elderly who are clients of State College office.  Home Instead Senior Care, is the world’s largest provider of non-medical homecare and companionship services for seniors.

While most of the 76 million baby boomers are no longer caring for their children, more and more of them are playing the role of caretakerfor an older generation: their parents. But how ready are they for this role?

The holidays are a good time for family caregivers returning home to tune into the signs that an older adult may need extra help to remain safe at home.