Secured Homes for Seniors

Secured Homes for Seniors – Ways to Keep the Elderly Safe

  When providing secured homes for seniors who require assisted living arrangements, it is necessary to give them the best security systems. You need to keep them from wandering off, and you want to make sure that criminals are kept out.     Best Ways to Ensure Secured Homes for Seniors   As a caregiver, your responsibility goes beyond dispensing medicine and feeding your elderly loved one. You want to create a secure and safe…

Sundowning – How Elderly Patients Are Affected by the Lack of Sunlight

Sundowning symptoms can appear in up to 25% of all Alzheimer’s patients. Doctors now know that some seniors with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia show higher signs of aggression and anger after the sun goes down.   A lack of sunlight is known to affect the mood of people around the world. In Scandinavian countries and even in Alaska, the largest number of cases of depression and alcoholism are recorded during the months…

Apple TV Helping Seniors

Apple TV – Helping Seniors to Enjoy Entertainment on Demand

Apple TV solutions are more popular than ever in the United States. Seniors are one of the largest growing groups to enjoy this marvelous technology. Nowadays, viewing movies and other programs are growing at an increasing number for seniors. With the appeal of Apple TV, watching favored video clips on widescreen television is more convenient and easy. Apple TV is a small, home entertainment platform that plays the material you love from iTunes, Netflix, YouTube,…

Music Touches the Soul of Seniors with Alzheimer's

How Music Touches the Soul in Elders with Alzheimer's

      We saw a YouTube video the other day and it was SO powerfully moving that we had to share it with you. At Applewood Our House in Lakewood, Golden and Arvada, music is a big part of the lives of our residents. There are various ways that music touches the soul in Elders with Alzheimer’s disease. In the same way, music affects normal people in a positive way, it can also soothe…