What Services Are Available through Adult Day Health Care?
Adult day health care offers a variety of services to meet all sorts of needs.
How Do Senior Care Services at Adult Day Health Care Help Your Senior?
Senior care services available through adult day centers offer massive benefits to your senior.
Four Benefits of Respite Time at Adult Day Care
Spending time at adult day care may have more benefits for your senior than you might expect.
Caring for a Loved One: Post-acute Rehabilitation
When a loved one is discharged from the hospital it is one of the greatest reliefs in the world, as they are on their way towards making a full recovery. This transition is not always easy; especially if your loved one was in the hospital for an extended period of time and now requires post-acute […]
Oxnard Family Circle ADHC Provides Additional Respite Care
At Oxnard Family Circle, we realize that caregiving is a full time job. We are happy to provide respite care during our usual hours (Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m.) however, sometimes caregivers need more assistance. Many caregivers have additional jobs other than caregiving, or have families and outside matters to attend to. […]
How To Cope With Sleeplessness and Wandering for Seniors with Dementia
If your loved one has dementia, he or she may have difficulty sleeping at night. They might be prone to wandering around the house while you or your family members are asleep, and this can cause concern for many reasons. Your loved one may be putting themselves at risk for a fall or another injury […]
Aggression in Dementia Individuals: Why It Happens and How to Cope
Once a month, Oxnard Family Circle ADHC has an Alzheimer’s Cafe group for caregivers who are taking care of dementia individuals. I attended the group recently and sat next to a man who is providing care for his wife, who has Alzheimer’s. The man told me that he had attended the Alzheimer’s Cafe group in […]
Caregivers, You Are Not Alone: Programs to Help Caregivers and Their Loved Ones
Josephine* spends a lot of time and energy caring for her husband, who is a participant at Oxnard Family Circle Adult Day Health Care Center. Her husband, a veteran who was once an IT tech, suffered a severe stroke and can hardly operate a remote control.
Nature’s Therapeutic Qualities Can Help Dementia Patients
There is a well proven bank of evidence that suggests that “nature is good for us”. Most of our parents insisted that we go out and “get some fresh air” as children instead of staying inside. Despite the association with nature being therapeutic for people of all ages, until now the term “green exercise” had […]
Breakthrough for an Alzheimer’s Patient Gives Others A Reason To Persevere
As of this year, it is estimated that as many as 5.1 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease. As our population ages, the disease impacts a larger percentage of Americans. The number of people age 65 and older will more than double between 2010 and 2050 to 88.5 million or 20 percent of the population. In addition, […]
