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Tips for Avoiding Heat-Related Illness

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Hello Seniors, Families and Friends. We hope you are all staying in the cool and hydrated. According to a Village Medical article released on 7.10.24, below you can find information on symptoms, cures and ways to avoid this issue. Please see a copy and paste from the article.

Heat cramps, exhaustion, or stroke can occur when the body becomes overheated from high temperatures. Warning signs of heat-related illness include:

• Sweating
• Painful muscle spasms
• Weakness, dizziness or lightheadedness
• Nausea or vomiting
• Headache
• Low blood pressure

Later signs of heat stroke can be serious and may include chills, confusion, slurred speech, seizures and a body temperature above 104℉. If you experience any of these symptoms, call 911 or visit the nearest ER.

The best way to prevent heat-related illness is to stay inside in the air conditioning. If you are out playing or working in the sun, make sure to drink plenty of water. You can also cool off by spraying water or placing ice packs on the skin.

For more information, please contact Golden Heart Senior Care at 480.622.3557 or visit us on the web at GoldenHeartScottsdale.com.

Have a safe and happy summer!!!

A New VA Benefit and how it works

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Hello Seniors, Families and Friends. I am so proud to announce that @GoldenHeartScottsdale.com is now approved to offer a New VA Benefit. This is a program that has long been needed. If you are honorably discharged during your enlistment to serve America, you now qualify for home care benefits. This benefit is through Homeward Bound and Tri-west. If you completed your tour while enlisted, you qualify for home care benefits. When it comes to VA Benefits, there has always been a relationship between your finances and receiving any help. This has all changed. Again, if you were honorably discharged and you need assistance with daily activity, you qualify for assistance. All you need is a VA Primary Care Physician or VA Case Worker, and we can get you approved quickly. For more information, please contact Golden Heart Senior Care @GoldenHeartScottsdale.com or 480.341.2227 for more information. Have a safe and happy Summer!!!

Help Your Loved One Declutter on National Give Something Away Day

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Almost everyone gathers up more and more stuff as they age, especially if they’ve been living in the same home for decades. So many objects that were set aside or stored in a remote closet somewhere to be dealt with someday have remained in their spots for years gathering dust. The middle of July has a fun little holiday that can be just the incentive your loved one needs to do a bit of decluttering around the home. National Give Something Away Day promotes taking those once-loved objects and letting others enjoy them by giving them away.

The thought of going through that big closet at the top of the stairs and pulling out all of those boxes might seem a bit overwhelming for your senior loved one, and it might also be too physically demanding. Those obstacles make celebrating the day with the help of a family member or home care provider a must. It may not only be physically exhausting to open up all of those boxes or pull all of those clothes off the hooks, but it might be emotionally overwhelming as well. Many of those stored objects may also have memories with them that make giving them away extra difficult.

Let’s look at some steps your loved one can take with his home care provider to help make participating in National Give Something Away Day on July 15 more rewarding than stressful.

  • Start with the least sentimental first. Oftentimes, clothes are not sentimental. We just end up with too many of them because as we buy new outfits, we don’t get rid of the old. But if they no longer fit correctly or aren’t your loved one’s style anymore, it’s time to give them away so someone else can enjoy them. Your home care provider or family member can help by pulling items out of the closet one by one and showing them to your loved one to see if she wants to keep them, give them away, or throw the ones that are not in good enough shape to give away.
  • Start with just one box. If your loved one doesn’t want to go through all the boxes in the attic because there are just too many, suggest that you start with just one. It might help if you add a reward at the end such as you’ll go out for tea once you get through one entire box. When it comes to sentimental objects be empathetic and listen to why she wants to keep what and then honor those wishes as much as possible.
  • Make it personal. While clothes and shoes might be given to local thrift stores or second-hand stores, if your loved one has a lot of family heirlooms that are tucked away in the dark corners of storage places, you could suggest that she can give them to family members. Keeping those personal items in the family might make it easier for her to give away things that she has no use for but are still sentimental for her.

National Give Something Away Day is a great way to reuse and recycle items that may not be needed by your loved one anymore but will be greatly appreciated by others.

If you or an aging loved one is considering home care in Scottsdale, AZ, please call the caring staff at Golden Heart Senior Care of Scottsdale at (480) 284-7360. We are here to help!

Sundowning

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According to an article Published by a Place for Mom, the following describes a symptom referred to as sundowning:

Toward the end of the day, you may notice someone with dementia becoming noticeably more irritable, anxious, angry, and irrational. This change in behavior is called sundowning, also known as sundown syndrome or sundowner syndrome, and refers to late-day confusion or delirium. Because it can’t be easily attributed to a definite cause, it’s not considered a disease, but rather a set of symptoms associated with dementia. Sundowning in dementia patients is relatively common, as well. As many as 1 in 5 people with Alzheimer’s will experience sundowning, according to Cleveland Clinic. For more information, please contact us @GoldenHeartScottsdale.com.

Welcome, Laura!

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Hello Seniors, Families and Friends. Please allow me to introduce Laura. Laura is a new caregiver with @GoldenHeartScottsdale.com. Laura comes to us with 20 years of caregiving experience. Laura is nice, helpful, reliable and smart. To receive a caregiver like Laura, please contact us @GoldenHeartScottsdale.com. We give home care with a HEART!!!

Meet Our Office Manager, Angela!

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Hello Seniors, Families and Friends. I would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to Angela. Angela is our Office Manager. She comes to us from the Optometry world. Through some deductive reasoning, we have decided she is more than likely the person who did my cross-linking procedure many years ago. Angela is kind, smart and eager to help. We enjoy having Angela around the office and we appreciate everything she does for our clients. I think the smile in her picture tells you a lot about her personality. To have a smiling face like this one the other end of the phone, please contact us @GoldenHeartScottsdale.com. We are here to give you service with a smile.

Golden Heart Senior Care of Scottsdale Hires a Community Liasion

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Hello Seniors, Family and Friends. I would like to take a second to introduce Linda. Linda is our newest Community Liaison. Linda has more than 30 years experience in the healthcare industry. She has worked everything from hospice, home health and home care. Linda is a certified Social Worker. Linda is a dedicated helper of people. Linda, we are so happy to have you @GoldenHeartScottsdale.com. We look forward to working with, growing with and helping seniors with you for a long time to come. Welcome aboard!!!

 

Golden Heart Senior Care of Scottsdale Hires a Community Liasion

 

MC, we HEART you and Golden Heart!!!

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Hello Seniors, Families and Friends. Please see pictured above a young lady who has been a caregiver with @GoldenHeartScottsdale.com for more than two years. Every client that she works with loves her. They consider her as part of their family. As you well know, here at Golden Heart Senior Care, we love to catch our staff doing the right things. When you arrive on time, do a great job, get a review and makes seniors feel safe and cared for, you earn points. When you collect points, you can turn them into cash and gifts. Here, please see another wonderful caregiver receiving a gift card reward point bonu$. MC, we HEART you and Golden Heart!!!

How Does 24-hour Home Care Adapt to Seniors’ Needs?

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Seniors’ needs can change rapidly, depending on what issues they’re facing. 24-hour home care offers an around-the-clock solution for families, helping them ensure that seniors have the care they need. The help that 24-hour caregivers can offer also changes according to what seniors require at any given point.

Mobility Assistance

When seniors have mobility trouble, they’re more likely to be at risk of falling. That can also keep them from being as independent as they were in the past. Elder care providers who are there all day and all night with seniors can help them to move safely around their homes, can help them when they’re outside of the home, and prioritize safety during movement. This helps seniors to continue being as active as they can safely.

Managing Chronic Conditions

24-hour home care providers aren’t medical providers, but they can help seniors remember to take their medications on time. They can also help seniors to stick to the routines that help them to feel as well as possible. If they notice health situations changing, they can also keep family caregivers and healthcare providers apprised of what’s happening.

Personal Care Assistance

Bathing, other hygiene tasks, and other personal care tasks may also be more difficult as seniors experience changes in their needs. Caregivers who are there around the clock can help with all of these types of tasks whenever they need to be handled. This ensures that seniors are keeping their skin healthy and clean, and that they’re wearing clean clothing, getting to the bathroom, and addressing other personal care needs.

Offering Flexible Schedules

Sometimes seniors need more help overnight than they need during the day. Or they have shifting needs overnight and during the day depending on specific health challenges they’re facing. 24-hour home care services ensure that seniors and family caregivers get the help that they need exactly when they need it. And if those schedules need to be even more flexible, that’s entirely possible.

Introducing New Services

Sometimes families aren’t sure what types of help their seniors need. They may have never used home care services in the past or their aging adults need a variety of different types of help, even from other types of therapists and service providers. 24-hour home care providers can help seniors to adjust to these new services and offer a friendly face while seniors meet new therapists and specialists.

Fostering Open Communication

For busy family caregivers, it’s crucial to have all the information necessary to make the complicated decisions around their family member’s care. Home care providers who are there around the clock are able to keep family caregivers informed and aware of what’s going on. They can help keep everyone on the same page easily.

24-hour home care helps seniors and family caregivers experience peace of mind when it comes to care at all hours of the day and night. Seniors have consistent care, no matter what time of day it is, which allows everyone involved to focus on what is really important.

If you or an aging loved one is considering 24-hour home care in Phoenix, AZ, please call the caring staff at Golden Heart Senior Care of Scottsdale at (480) 284-7360. We are here to help!

Caregiver Rewards Points for JB!

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Hello Seniors, Families and Friends. As you may know, we try hard to catch our staff doing the right things right. When we do, they earn Caregiver Reward Points. Please see below. This caregiver has been with our company for about 3 years. She does a fantastic job of being selfless for her clients. All of her clients love her. When her clients give her compliments along with her doing a great job, she has earned reward points. Please see below, JB the caregiver has come in to pick up her rewards. We are so proud of her. We look forward to her earning more points and receiving more gift cards. For more information on how to get a caregiver like JB, please contact #GoldenHeartScottsdale.com.