Looking for Creative Activities for Seniors? Hearts at Home Can Help!

While kids certainly eagerly anticipate summer break and all of the fun it entails, summer doesn’t have to lose its pleasure as we get older! At Hearts at Home, we delight in helping older adults engage in life to the fullest, and have developed the list below of some of the best activities for seniors that […]

Hearts at Home’s Top Safety Tips for Helping Seniors Enjoy This Summer

What’s not to love about love the warmer, longer, leisurely days of summertime? With family get-togethers and festivities like graduations, weddings, holiday gatherings, and more, many seniors are more active through the summer season. And since it’s easy for older adults to rapidly become overheated, it’s critical to know how to recognize heat-related health issues, […]

Keep Seniors Safe: Know the Dangers of Combining Prescriptions and Vitamins

“Be sure to take your vitamins!” How often are we made aware of the need to make sure we meet the daily recommended requirement for the wide range of vitamin and mineral supplements that are intended to keep us healthy? What we hear less often, however, is the threat in mixing specific drugs with OTC […]

Tricks to Make Medication Management Less Scary!

Although it’s certainly true that medications can be life-saving, we’ve also heard a number of shocking accounts of patients who erroneously took an incorrect medicine – either because of a miscommunication with the prescribing medical professional or the pharmacy. Yet there’s inherent danger to taking any drugs: substance misuse. Much like it would be exceedingly […]

Take This Fall Risk Assessment to Ensure Your Senior Loved Ones Are Safe!

Have you ever seen a comedy that involved a man or woman accidentally stepping on a banana peel and staging an elaborate, exaggerated fall? Perhaps it’s funny on TV, but elderly falls are certainly no laughing matter. As a matter of fact, falls are the top cause of both serious injury and death in the […]