HealthStar Home Health is presenting a series on various medical conditions that individuals may have. In this series of blog articles, we will provide some background information for each condition and help you understand how our home health care resources will serve you or a… Read More »Sundowning: How to Manage Late Day Confusion
The terms Alzheimer’s and dementia are often used interchangeably, when in fact “dementia” is an umbrella term for symptoms that cause a disruption in brain function, such as memory loss and changes in cognitive abilities. Alzheimer’s disease is just one type of dementia. As the… Read More »Understanding the Difference Between Alzheimer’s and Dementia
People have mixed feelings about taking a memory screen. Fifty percent of the public told us they didn’t want to know even if they do have memory loss related to dementia and the other half that have been affected in some way by Alzheimer’s or… Read More »Memory Screenings – Proof the Public Wants to Know!
Today we will learn how & why The Alzheimer’s Whisperer program works. Host Lori La Bey talks with HealthStar Home Health representative Holly Eide, along with Dr. Verna Carlson, President and Katherine Vanderhorst, Vice-President of C&V Senior Care Specialists who developed and license the Alzheimer’s… Read More »The Alzheimer’s Whisperer Program: How & Why It Works