As individuals age and move into elderly care homes, they often face a challenging transition that can be accompanied by a sense of loss. Losing one’s sense of autonomy, home, and purpose can be difficult to cope with. It can negatively impact one’s overall quality of life. To help seniors cope with these negative emotions,…
Like everybody else, caregivers too need a break. Respite care facilities play a very important role in providing caregivers a short-term break from the demands of caregiving a family member. Respite care can take the load off your shoulders while you can go for a vacation, meet your professional or personal commitments or just be…
Working in a care home can be a demanding job. Overwhelmed by a number of responsibilities, one can make different errors. And one such error is medication administration error. Administering medications is one task that affects the health of the resident directly. However, due to lack of drug knowledge, overwriting or other causes, care home…