Request InformationEveryone still likes happy endings, right? A very young 90-something woman, who had lived alone in her own home for many years, fell in her bathroom and was not found for a number of hours. (This does happen to older adults way too often and there is a way to make sure help arrives quickly.) Read More >>
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Hospitals…Love Them, Hate Them – Finding Home, Part 3
My previous two blogs spoke about the stress of dealing with a medical emergency that sends your loved one to the hospital. When a parent or elderly family member experiences their first real medical emergency, that is the time you find yourself stepping into the roles of care coordinator, care planner and care giver (often Read More >>
Hospitals…Love Them, Hate Them – Finding Home, Part 2
How can you be as prepared as possible for a potential medical emergency to happen to your loved one when you’re not immediately present or available? Here are some key tips and items you need to have in place, long before any possible emergency happens: Have a list with your primary care doctor’s (and any Read More >>
Hospitals…Love Them, Hate Them – Finding Home, Part 1
Have you ever been lost? Turned around? Not sure where you are and how you got there? But, the one thing you do know is you just want to go home? I’ve been, and it’s an awful feeling. So, have you ever had this experience? You become ill (of course, it’s 1:35 a.m. in the Read More >>
How to Find and Hire a Good Home Care Worker
One of the most difficult things for family members is finding good in-home care for a loved one. Besides coping with the emotions usually associated with watching the physical/mental decline of a parent, grandparent, brother, sister or other loved one, now you find yourself in the position of needing to make a decision on who Read More >>
Helping Hearts Foundation Resident Carol “Shorty” W.
Helping Hearts Foundation Resident Carol “Shorty” W. from Helping Hearts Foundation on Vimeo. Social services should be afforded the ability to go see the living conditions and doctors should once again get in the practice of prescribing nutrition. Had that happened at the first sign of trouble on a doctors visit for compulsive eating years Read More >>
Helping Hearts Foundation Resident Craig
Helping Heart Foundation Resident Craig from Helping Hearts Foundation on Vimeo. Craig became a Helping Heart Foundation Resident a few years ago when he realized his options for safe, secure and affordable housing were running out. Having battled a lifelong addiction to alcohol and drugs Craig was beset upon by injuries and illnesses that made Read More >>
Helping Hearts Foundation Rescue – What We See
Wash your hands. Western medicine is an amazing achievement in human history. To have banished from daily life the unsanitary conditions that breed viruses, bacteria and parasites is a major reason why humans are flourishing on the earth. Yet even in the most affluent of countries and the richest of cities, the causes of a Read More >>
Helping Hearts Foundation Resident Alberto
Helping Hearts Foundation Resident Alberto from Helping Hearts Foundation on Vimeo. Alberto’s is a bittersweet story of a man with a loving family, a positive outlook on life, boundless energy who was diagnosed with multiple terminal illnesses and spent his last days as a resident of the Helping Hearts Foundation. Surrounded by family and friends, Read More >>
Helping Hearts Foundation Residents Sue and Bridget
Sue & Bridget from Helping Hearts Foundation on Vimeo. Sue & Bridget have formed a part of the Helping Hearts Community for more than a year now. Living in the same house has allowed them to form a bond which has sped along the healing process for both of them, each in their own different Read More >>
