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Home Care for Families During Holidays and Special Occasions

Home care for families during holidays and special occasions helps you reduce stress and enjoy your time with your loved ones.

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Three Early Signs of Dementia

So, it’s a Saturday and you have just taken your mom out for a nice lunch. Your elderly mom however cannot remember where she put her checkbook. And, she tripped a couple times as you brought her back to her house. You also noticed that she seemed distant at lunch,...

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Keeping A Thankful Journal

It is an annual tradition in our family to go around the Thanksgiving table and have everyone express one thing they are thankful for. One of my favorites is when my nephew said he was thankful he didn’t have to clean up the mess! But too soon, Thanksgiving is behind...

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Apps for Seniors

There are millions of apps in iTunes and it grows daily. Here’s some apps that might help seniors make their lives a little easier. ICE (In Case of Emergency). The ICE iPhone application provides emergency personnel or EMT’s vital information that might save your life. This information includes what medicine you...

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The Great American Smokeout!

Today, November 15 is the great American Smokeout, a day initiated by the American Cancer Society to bring awareness to a habit that can be life-threatening. Did you know that one in five Americans still smoke? Or that using tobacco is the #1 cause of premature death in the United...

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Prevent Type 2 Diabetes

November is National Diabetes Month and FirstLight Home Care would like to bring your attention to an illness that impacts millions of Americans every day. According to the National Diabetes Association: Nearly 26 million children and adults in the United States have diabetes. Another 79 million Americans have pre-diabetes and...

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The Sandwich Generation…The New Normal?

Have you heard of the term “The Sandwich Generation?” Well, if you haven’t up until now, then you’ll probably start to hear it more and more. Heck, you might even be a member of The Sandwich Generation and you don’t even know it. It’s a term that I find extremely...

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Alternatives to the Traditional Funeral

Guest blogger: Julie Grannan My mom passed away on August 2, 1997. Only 54 years old, she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a short six months prior. Being “younger” I don’t believe that she and my dad had really discussed their funeral/burial preferences. But when terminal illness comes knocking...

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Tips For Communicating With An Alzheimer’s Patient

Here at FirstLight Home Care, we work with lots of families caring for loved ones with many different diseases and disabilities. One disease that is particularly heart wrenching to watch and personally endure is Alzheimer’s. I have asked myself this question many times…as I get older “would I rather lose...

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Tracking Devices for Your Wandering Parent

A GPS tracking device for your aging parent? I know, it sounds a little strange at first… at least it did to me. I had really only heard of tracking devices being used by search and rescue teams, the police, and possibly the nervous parents of toddlers and/or new teenage...

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2024 Caregiver of the Year

FirstLight Home Care is pleased to honor Susanne DiDonato of Western Connecticut as its National Caregiver of the Year. Susanne was honored at our 2024 National Conference in Napa Valley, CA. A dedicated and kind caregiver, Susanne truly embodies what it means to be our Caregiver of the Year.

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