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Senior Care Issues Families Face

The issues outlined below impact the lives of seniors every day and are just a few of the reasons that families look to Home Instead Senior Care to meet their home care needs.

Dots

Dots is designed for families, seniors, professional caregivers, and their communities. You can access national or local information and tools about healthy aging and caregiving for free.
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Center on Aging at the University of Vermont

The mission of the Center on Aging at the University of Vermont is to forge an ongoing collaboration among faculty, students, staff and programs within the University of Vermont, Fletcher Allen Health Care, and the Vermont community to promote a sense of well being and a high quality of life for older adults. The Center seeks to engage interested parties who wish to partner in the development and execution of programs that facilitate the health and welfare of older adults.
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Elder Care Connections

Elder Care Connections of Vermont provides care management services for older Vermonters and their families.
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Alzheimer's Association of Vermont

The Alzheimer’s Association is the leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer care, support and research.
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The Vermont Parkinson's Association

Since 1998, the Vermont Chapter APDA has made practical advice available to the Parkinson's Community on a wide variety of issues and provides educational opportunities and resources to "ease the burden" of this chronic illness. In cooperation with the Information and Referral Center, the focus of the Chapter is to communicate key information and to provide network support to the patient, care partner and health provider while supporting efforts to "find a cure" for Parkinson Disease.
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Learn more about caregiver stress, how to manage it, and where to get help.

Caregiver Stress

While family caregiving often is a rewarding and bonding experience, it also can be stressful and cause tension within families. A quarter of adults presently care for an aging parent or relative while taking care of their immediate family. Caregiverstress.com is an educational site designed to help family caregivers take care of themselves while taking care of their senior loved one. Visit this interactive caregiving Web site to complete an individual online stress assessment test and discover resources that can help you cope with the stress of caring for a senior.

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Home Instead Senior Care's 40/70 Rule helps adult children address difficult topics.

40-70 Rule

Home Instead Senior Care established the 40/70 Rule, a public education campaign to help adult children address difficult conversations with their parents, such as driving, finances, independence, and even romance. The rule means that if you are 40, or your parents are 70, it's time to start talking about these trying topics.
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Get Mom Moving: Mom takes a pottery class

Get Mom Moving

Growing frailty can be the beginning of a downward spiral, and loss of independence is at top of the list when seniors discuss their worries about aging. But there is some good news. While staying physically active may be a challenge for seniors, getting Mom (and Dad) moving can help prevent and even reverse signs of frailty, according to one of the nation’s foremost authorities and researchers of mobility, balance disorders, and falls in older adults. To learn more about reversing and preventing frailty related issues, visit our Get Mom Moving website.Read more

Proper nutrition plays important role in overall senior care.

Cooking Under Pressure

Healthy aging is a goal we all share and good nutrition is the first line of defense for older adults who are striving to maintain their independence as they age. Now the Home Instead Senior Care Network is arming seniors and family caregivers with nutrition resources for healthy aging.
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The number of multi-generational households continues to increase as caregivers share their homes to care for their loved ones.

Too Close for Comfort?

The growing trend of children caring for their elderly parents has prompted Home Instead Senior Care to launch "Too Close for Comfortsm" a public education campaign to guide families to the right choices for them. These pages and the resources they contain will help adult children and their senior loved ones answer the question: Should we or shouldn't we live together?
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