Searching For Senior Care May Affect Your Job Performance
By CarePatrol of Chicago Northshore Finding care for an aging parent is a noble calling. Parents take care of us for the first 20 years of our lives, and we should…
Mourning the Death of a Spouse
By CarePatrol of Chicago Northshore When a spouse dies, your world changes. After the initial shock and fear, the surviving spouse is left to deal with the physical and emotional…
Isolation for Seniors May Trigger Rapid Declines in Health
By CarePatrol of Chicago Northshore Prior To COVID-19, David and his wife were managing the effects of her dementia together in their home. But, seniors facing the challenges of social isolation…
Will Mom Be Safe in Assisted Living?
By CarePatrol of Chicago Northshore Assisted Living is a unique blend of health care and hospitality. Each assisted living community brings its own approach to these services to create a blended…
Our Spirits Are Strong
By CarePatrol of Chicago Northshore Throughout the virus crisis, CarePatrol has had many inspiring examples of serving families, laughing over delivering care packages in full PPE, and supporting seniors in…
The Senior Care Industry – Things I Know and Things I Don’t Know
By CarePatrol of Chicago Northshore Things I don’t know: • What the senior care industry will look like in the years to come. • What the future holds for the…
Today Was a Sad Day
By CarePatrol of Chicago Northshore Stay-at-home orders in Illinois are in place through the end of May. While some of us can venture out for groceries wearing a mask, or…
Are You Scared?
By CarePatrol of Chicago Northshore A daughter called our CarePatrol office in tears. She had been taking care of her mom that was suffering from dementia that was progressing at a…
In Times Of Trouble, Where You Run Is Where You Trust
By CarePatrol of Chicago Northshore I received a call from a distraught family whose mom was struggling with advanced dementia and needed an immediate memory-care placement after leaving a hospital…
Let’s Be the Strength to Those Who Have Lost All Hope
By CarePatrol of Chicago Northshore We are all in this coronavirus crisis together – struggling one way or another. Some have it harder, but in the midst of the virus scare,…
You Are Not Putting Me In A Nursing Home!
By CarePatrol of Chicago Northshore The terms assisted living community and nursing home are often used interchangeably. It is not uncommon during a family meeting for a senior to tell their…
We Are A Team
By CarePatrol of Chicago Northshore In spite of what we see in the news reports, healthcare workers in the senior care industry are fighting hard against a horrific situation to…
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