Nursing Home & Rehabilitaton Centre
Communicating with a loved one with a brain disorder can indeed be challenging. Finding the right words and getting your point across are difficult under normal circumstances.This difficulty is often…
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If your loved one is at a hospital or a nursing care facility, whether it’s for a short-term rehab stay or for long-term care, she might feel pretty discouraged about…
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Here is some practical advice: Being Reasonable, Rational, and Logical Will Just Get You into Trouble. When someone is acting in ways that don’t make sense, we tend to carefully…
Job 1 when moving your aging parent or loved one into your home — or helping them age in place in their own home — is making it safe. Take…
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Learning how to care for a stroke patient at home is all about putting yourself in the survivor’s shoes. It’s also important to understand the medical complications that you can…
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How do you respond when someone asks, “Is there anything I can do?” More likely than not, your response is, “Oh no, I’m okay.” And when friends say “Let me know if…
Avoid food fights. Make mealtime as pleasant as possible. Encourage someone to eat, but don’t demand, cajole, or threaten. Someone with dementia may not know what he/she wants to eat….
Set up the bathroom to make it as easy as possible for the person to get on to and off of the toilet, e.g. having a raised toilet seat and…
The well-being of our parents is our ultimate wish as they age and live out the last years of their lives. Aging is a fact of life and it affects…
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The Principles of Care underpin the work of everyone in nursing home and rehabilitation services. The principles influence the working practices of our staffs (known as CWC Lovers) in providing…
