Home Gym for Seniors
While it is always important for anyone to stay healthy and in shape regardless of age, deciding on what type of equipment to purchase for your home gym may rest solely on that. For seniors specifically, you may want to …
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Los Angeles Senior Adventures
It’s always nice to get away from your normal routines and explore the city- especially when that city is the City of Angels which is best known for their great weather, stardom, and beautiful beaches. And what’s even nicer than …
Importance of Social Interactions
No matter what stage of life you are in, an interaction can change the direction your life heading towards. As we become older adults, we may have less opportunities to interact with co-workers or friends due to retirement or a …
National Home Care and Hospice Annual Conference 2019
It was Tender Home Health’s second year at the Annual National Home Care and Hospice Conference and Expo it was as great an experience as it was the first. The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) did a …
Living with Heart Failure (HF)
At first it started as a trip to the bathroom which left you short of breath. Then not too long after, you noticed that your feet were swelling a bit. The changes were gradual, you blamed it on age and …
Why Home Health?
A question I often get when I walk into a patient’s home is, “Why home health?” And every time my answer is “For the relationship.”
From the moment I started home health, I never looked back. In the hospital, there …
Detection and Prevention of Infection
It’s Wound Care month and as part of our ongoing series, we wanted to educate our community about infections and how to prevent them.
In our previous article, we mentioned that infection is one of the reasons a wound …
Proper Nutrition for Healing Wounds
Most people don’t know this, but one of the key factors to healing a wound is proper nutrition. Most of our patients focus on caring for the wound directly. However, treating the wound on the surface is only half of …
Why is my wound not healing?
Over the years we have cared for thousands of wounds of all different types. We wanted to take our learnings and provide you with the top reasons your wound may not be healing, and what to do about it. Wounds …
The Fountain of Youth is Water
Too often we forget that the best way to stay healthy is to drink water! Too often people would rather go for a more sugary alternative to drink when they feel thirsty, but don’t realize that water is important for …