When Ellen, one of our With A Little Help caregivers, decided to share Zentangles with her senior home care clients, she was looking for a fun, restful and calming activity. Something that would inspire and invoke something in them. Little did she know that the...
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and as you may have seen on our social media pages on October 7th and 8th, the team at With A Little Help wore pink to honor a team member who is fighting breast cancer. There are a number...
When asked what called her to become a caregiver, without hesitation Darsheen said, “It’s something that I have been doing since I was a little girl. It’s just something that is instilled in me”. From a very young age, Darsheen was taught to care for,...
Without a doubt, 2020 has challenged each and every one of us. It’s been six months since the start of the pandemic. Six months of making adjustments in our personal and professional lives. Six months of quarantine, social distancing, home-schooling, and mask-wearing. We are living in a time...
If you are in the position of needing to find care for your loved one, it can be overwhelming to know what questions to ask. Here is a list of questions that you should keep in mind when selecting the right care. Use the questions below...
In the first part of this blog series, I shared my story of Edein and how overwhelmed I was when I first started caring for her. Looking back to the beginning, I can empathize with where you are at right now with the responsibility of...
With a Little Help is dedicated to helping our community by offering the best in professional and supportive in-home care to your loved ones. We also want to be a resource when you are looking to learn more about their condition. While live, in-person educational...
Home Care vs. Home Health: Part 1 - Why In-Home Care is Essential, Shawn's Story I remember it was a Thursday when we met with the lawyer and signed all the paperwork for me to become the Co-Power of Health for a dear friend of mine,...
This is such a difficult time for our country, our city and us. The recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, along with the countless others (many unknown to us), brought our country to a boiling point in the past several days...
The growing awareness that your senior parent is no longer able to live safely and independently alone without outside support is an emotional experience. The ensuing heaviness is compounded if you are one of the tens of millions of American adults, between the ages of...