Aging Veteran Care: Staying Healthy Through the Flu Season

Aging Veteran Care: Staying Healthy Through the Flu Season

For the aging Veteran in your life, you just don’t want him to get sick. Catching the flu is something that is no more than an annoyance for most people; but for elderly persons it can develop into something more serious and be very hard to overcome. If you can help...
Veteran Senior Care: The Issue of Self-Neglect

Veteran Senior Care: The Issue of Self-Neglect

When elderly Veterans are not able to maintain the basics of self-care, it is considered elder self-neglect. Some of these basics include personal hygiene and grooming, cleanliness, keeping their living environment comfortable and safe, proper managing of money and...
Veterans Senior Care: Old Beliefs About Alzheimer’s Behaviors

Veterans Senior Care: Old Beliefs About Alzheimer’s Behaviors

It is known that there are dramatic and even unexpected changes in behavior in an Alzheimer’s patient. Often there can seem like there is no logical reason for the way they behave. We know that the disease destroys the workings of the brain, but does that account for...