2010 Taxes: Start Preparing Now In Winter Gardens CA

2010 Taxes: Start Preparing Now

You’ve probably just filed your taxes for 2009, but its not too early to start thinking about next year.

If you have a relative who is a resident of an assisted living facility or receives long-term care services at home, take note. They may be able to deduct those expenses from gross income on their tax return. If you provide a significant portion of that persons assisted living costs, you may be able to make those same deductions on your return.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 clarifies which expenses can be considered deductible. HIPAA requires individuals to meet certain criteria in order to take advantage of the medical expense tax deduction. Please contact your tax preparer for information about your specific situation …. and start saving your receipts.

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By: Always Best Care Senior Services – San Diego California (CA)

Elder Care Solutions – Dealing With Difficult Aging Parents

Ah, the empty nest.

Your teenagers have moved out of the house. You have time to take a yoga class, have lunch with a friend, or learn a new hobby-until Dad moves in with you because he can no longer live alone. Caring for aging parents is tough, no matter how much you love them.

Looking after elderly parents can be even tougher when Dad isn’t cooperative. And even though he’s a cranky old man, he’s your cranky old man-and it’s your job to find an elder care solution that works for him.

Contact Always Best Care San Diego for information about dealing with difficult aging parents. We have a solution that's right for you! http://www.alwaysbestcaresandiego.com/

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Elder Care Solutions – Dealing With Difficult Aging Parents
By Gregory Weldy

Ah, the empty nest.

Your teenagers have moved out of the house. You have time to take a yoga class, have lunch with a friend, or learn a new hobby-until Dad moves in with you because he can no longer live alone. Caring for aging parents is tough, no matter how much you love them.

Looking after elderly parents can be even tougher when Dad isn’t cooperative. And even though he’s a cranky old man, he’s your cranky old man-and it’s your job to find an elder care solution that works for him.

Here are 3 common elder care support problems and how to overcome them:

Medication meltdowns

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By: Always Best Care Senior Services – San Diego California (CA)

Hiring Private Duty Home Care Workers In San Diego CA

Hiring Private Duty Home Care Workers:

Why Work through an Agency?

One of the greatest long-term needs of older adults and those with chronic illnesses is for in-home, custodial care services. These workers are often referred to as home health aides, certified nursing assistants and custodial care workers. These in-home workers make it possible for people with functional limitations to remain at home in a comfortable, familiar environment. Home health aides (as we will refer to this class of workers) provide a wide range of assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs), such as bathing, dressing, grooming, assisting with ambulation or transferring, toileting, feeding and providing medication reminders. In
addition, home health aides help with what professionals call, instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), such as shopping, meal preparation, making medical appointments, transportation, laundry and companionship.

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Can Your Attitude Towards Aging Affect the Health of Those Receiving Long Term Care?

Among all of the suggestions available to caregivers for coping with the care of a loved one, some simple strategies that influence the attitude of care recipients are often neglected.  Simply put, a more positive attitude towards aging can have a profound effect on the health of a care recipient.

Many elderly buy into the notion that they themselves are no longer useful and as a result make little attempt to keep themselves healthy and active. After all, they are getting closer to the end of their lives and have no desire to try new things or to challenge themselves or to eat or exercise properly.

There is a great deal of research evidence that demonstrates older people can learn, can retain memory and can be actively involved in business and in the community. The lack of physical exercise, social involvement and mental stimulation in older Americans often leads to these people losing the ability to use their minds and their bodies. The older person's negative attitude towards aging becomes self-fulfilling.

Many studies show that older people who are physically active have less joint pain, lower blood pressure, less depression, fewer heart attacks and a lower incidence of cancer. Proper nutrition also has the same affect on the aging process; it delays the progression of debilitating illness or disability. Recent research even indicates that weight loss and exercise can reverse the severity of diabetes.

Lack of social stimulation can also lead to poor health. Having an interest in something not only stimulates an older person's mind but also creates a better mental attitude which results often in better health. There is empirical evidence that using one's brain may prevent dementia in older age.

Why In-Home Care May be Right for You In Bostonia CA

Why In-Home Care May be Right for You in

I found a great article that talks about the many positive aspects regarding the use of In-Home Care for an aging loved one.  If you have any questions at all about Home Care in the area, please visit  www.inhomecaresandiego.com for information on how we can help!

“In-Home Care is rapidly becoming the most commonly asked for service among today’s aging population. In-Home Care involves a network of service providers who deliver personal care and maintenance right to the home. These service providers handle routine tasks including light housekeeping, meal preparation, errand running, mail sorting and a whole lot more. If desired, they can also provide assistance with personal care. “

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By: Always Best Care Senior Services – San Diego California (CA)

Stress and the Elderly in San Diego CA

Stress and the Elderly

Contrary to what we’ve been led to believe, senior living isn’t always the way it’s portrayed in glossy sales brochures and magazine advertisements. Rather than being a carefree period of life spent on the golf course and traveling around the world, for many of today’s seniors those “golden years” are incredibly stressful times.

What causes seniors so much stress? Change is a huge trigger for stress and seniors definitely experience plenty of change. It can be in the form of declining health, death of friends and loved ones, moving, a bad financial investment, and the list goes on. Here are some other reasons why senior living is stressful.

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Via: Always Best Care Senior Services – San Diego California (CA)

In San Diego CA, How To Know if Mom Should Be Living Alone

Should Mom Be Living Alone?
Jacqueline Marcell

Recently I received a call from Michelle, an exasperated adult daughter asking if there was any legal way to get her elderly father to stop yelling, screaming and berating her, and to accept a caregiver so she could move out of his house. She had moved in to help him after her mom passed, but was now trapped as he refused to move to assisted living or accept live-in help.

Michelle started to cry, saying she had just called an agency where a man “laughed at me,” saying her father could do whatever he wished in his own home short of physically abusing her. Since I have survived the same situation with my own father, I knew the misery she was going through.

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By: Always Best Care Senior Services – San Diego California (CA)

Welcome to Our New Home Care Blog for San Diego, California Seniors and Families!

Diane Mathis is a nurse of 25 years and runs all of our caregiving services.  She interviews, hires, tests, trains and places our caregivers in all of our clients homes.  Bill Mathis is a Certified Residential Care Facility for the Elderly Administrator and has been involved in Information Technology and health care for the past 25 years.  We are committed to providing the best care and service to our communities families and seniors. Our passion is to help no matter what it takes.

Contact Us:

278 Town Center Parkway Suite 201

Santee, CA  92071

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Proudly serving the California areas of Santee, San Diego, El Cajon, La Mesa, Winter Gardens and Bostonia.

By: Always Best Care Senior Services – San Diego California (CA)

By working with case managers, social workers, discharge planners, doctors and families, Always Best Care Senior Services of San Diego provides affordable, comprehensive solutions to the challenges that are often presented when an aging family member requires additional physical and personal support. The hallmark services of the company’s business portfolio include:

Home Care - With the assistance of a professional geriatric care specialist chosen to specifically meet their unique goals, local seniors can maintain their independence while living at home. Family members are encouraged to take part in the free personal consultation, where Always Best Care Senior Services will create a detailed, written care plan and work with insurance providers to coordinate billing procedures.

Assisted Living - Free of charge, this service presents seniors with options for choosing the most appropriate living facility to suit their needs. “We drive our clients to and from the facilities, and can carry a mobile database to the client’s bedside. We work with all budgets as well. I can promise that our company will never exhaust another family with a “list”, or give clients anything but our personal attention,” said Mathis.
Personal Response - Through a partnership with ResponseLINK, Always Best Care Senior Services provides personal response systems to seniors. Over 100,000 Americans have improved their lives with ResponseLINK medical and medical emergency monitoring systems.

"Whether a loved one is living with Alzheimer’s, cancer or Parkinson’s disease, or simply needs assistance making a weekly grocery trip, Always Best Care Senior Services of San Diego has the capability to enhance the life of the area’s seniors," said Mathis. "Our range of services can be tailored to meet a client’s particular needs, whether they require just a few hours of assistance a day or constant care 24 hours a day, seven days a week."

For more information about Always Best Care Senior Services of San Diego, please contact Bill Mathis at 619-757-1114 x 1.

Stress and the Elderly

Contrary to what we’ve been led to believe, senior living isn’t always the way it’s portrayed in glossy sales brochures and magazine advertisements. Rather than being a carefree period of life spent on the golf course and traveling around the world, for many of today’s seniors those “golden years” are incredibly stressful times.

What causes seniors so much stress? Change is a huge trigger for stress and seniors definitely experience plenty of change. It can be in the form of declining health, death of friends and loved ones, moving, a bad financial investment, and the list goes on. Here are some other reasons why senior living is stressful.

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If you are seeking more information regarding care for your senior loved one, please visit our website, Always Best Care San Diego.

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Computers and Seniors

According to research, computer savvy senior citizens have fewer symptoms of depression than those that do not get connected.

In an ongoing research study, data is being collected regarding computer use and depression to determine the changes over time in physical health, mental health and social activity of older adults.

Researchers wanted to look into the impact of the growing use of computers and the thought that those using computers would report fewer depressive symptoms than non-users. “Given the social and informational nature of older adult’s computer practices, e-mail, chat rooms and health information gathering, for example, it seems likely that this would be beneficial to an individual’s overall mental health.”Triche said.

In the study, it was determined that seniors who were computer users reported significantly fewer depressive symptoms that non- users. Researchers also found that computer users tended to be among the younger members of the study group and had higher annual incomes while also reporting higher functioning in activities of daily living.

Study conducted by Edward Cisek, PHD, and Kathleen Triche, DSW, CSW