by Teah Hopper | Mar 12, 2025 | Geriatric Care
Learn more about wound care at home and how professional support can improve your healing and maintain your independence. Caring for wounds at home is essential for promoting healing and preventing complications. For many seniors or their family members, the...
by Teah Hopper | Feb 26, 2025 | Care Management, Geriatric Care
One of our clients is in her mid to late nineties, living at home independently. I met her when she was in skilled nursing care because she had a heart arrhythmia that was causing passing out episodes. Last year around April, she wasn’t sleeping well, she was...
by Teah Hopper | Feb 26, 2025 | Care Management, Geriatric Care
I was recently thinking to myself, do I get paid to visit? Sometimes people ask me this question. The answer is no, not technically. But I believe that aging adults in this country are dying of loneliness, and that holds great weight with me. The other day, I...
by Teah Hopper | Feb 26, 2025 | Care Management, Geriatric Care
We had a client and she had ALS. When we started working with her, she was facing a decision whether she could stay at home or if she had to go to a facility. She wanted to stay at home and so we did. ALS is a degenerative disease, which means it’ll get...
by Teah Hopper | Feb 26, 2025 | Geriatric Care
One of our clients was a very involved patron in a local festival, the True False Film Festival, that lasts four days. He had arranged so that during three of those days, his family would take him to the festival. Opening night came and he was stressing about how he...
by Teah Hopper | Dec 11, 2024 | Geriatric Care
Struggling to choose a nursing home or long-term care facility for your loved one? Get our best tips on what to look for when touring a nursing home and questions to ask along the way. At Navigate Wellness, our goal is to keep our clients living independently in their...
