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Confusion, disorientation, and speech problems may be the first symptoms to come to mind when you think of Alzheimer’s disease. But sometimes early symptoms of Alzheimer’s include certain behavior changes that you may not hear about as often.
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Ten Early Symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease You Can’t Ignore
Confusion, disorientation, and speech problems may be the first symptoms to come to mind when you think of Alzheimer’s disease. But sometimes early symptoms of Alzheimer’s include certain behavior changes that you may not hear about as often.
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https://surpassliving.com/ten-early-symptoms-of-alzheimers-disease-you-cant-ignore/
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Ten Early Symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease You Can’t Ignore
As the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to unfold, it’s more important than ever to keep a watchful eye on your aging parent. While healthcare officials encourage social distancing and self-isolation, consider dropping off supplies, weekly phone calls, daily texts or video chat. Whether food is spoiling, mail is piling up, or something simply seems out of the ordinary, certain signs suggest an aging parent needs help now.
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https://surpassliving.com/18-signs-your-aging-parent-needs-help/
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18 Signs Your Aging Parent Needs Help
The holidays are a wonderful time of year for fun, cheer and family gatherings. Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, great meals will be shared, gifts will be exchanged, and loved ones will be reunited.
Amidst all these glad tidings, some families may learn that their loved one needs long term senior care. To avoid an unexpected downside to your holiday season, learn more about what to do in this situation.
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Preparing For Long-Term Senior Care
Despite the pandemic, our activities programming is still extremely important to our resident’s overall health and well-being. It not only improves their physical and mental health but also provides your loved one with daily entertainment. At Surpass Senior Living, we’ve had to get creative in the way we do things, but continuing activities in a safe way has been a big focus for us. Here are some of the ways we’ve altered our policies to continue our programs in assisted living and memory care due to the pandemic.
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https://surpassliving.com/programming-continues-in-assisted-living-and-memory-care-despite-pandemic/
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Programming Continues in Assisted Living and Memory Care Despite Pandemic
Helping an elderly loved one transition to senior living is an emotional experience. It also requires planning and logistics — especially when downsizing is involved.
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Helping Seniors Move: Design and Downsizing Tips for Senior Living
Anger, confusion, and sadness are a few symptoms a person with dementia may experience regularly. Even though you know your loved one’s dementia behaviors are symptoms of a disease and not intentional, dealing with them is often emotionally and physically challenging. Learn more about typical dementia behaviors and expert tips for managing them.
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https://surpassliving.com/dementia-behaviors-expert-tips-for-understanding-and-coping/
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Dementia Behaviors: Expert Tips for Understanding and Coping
Relocating a senior loved one to assisted living can bring them closer to family, ensure a safer home environment, and lead to a more active lifestyle. If you’re planning on moving an aging loved one, these six tips can help you plan.
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Six Practical Things to Consider When Moving an Aging Loved One
The transition to memory care can be difficult for families to navigate. Strong emotions, confusion, and shifting relationships may play out in interactions with a loved one moving to a memory care community.
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https://surpassliving.com/7-steps-to-help-your-family-member-transition-to-memory-care/
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7 Steps to Help Your Family Member Transition to Memory Care
Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs that can be serious in older adults. In the U.S., nearly 250,000 people are hospitalized with pneumonia each year, and about 50,000 die from the disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Seniors are at high risk for complications and death.
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Must-Know Facts About Pneumonia in Elderly Adults
Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours!
Now that the holidays are here and many COVID-related restrictions have been lifted across the country, many seniors are feeling ready and anxious to visit with their family.
Here are steps your family can take when you’re ready to visit with your loved ones and other older relatives during COVID-19 holidays.
https://surpassliving.com/visiting-safely-during-covid-19-holidays/
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Veterans Benefits: Does the VA Pay for Senior Care?
Are you or your loved one a U.S. military veteran or military veteran’s spouse? Veterans or their surviving spouses in need of senior care may qualify for extra financial help on top of their basic pension. Here are the highlights of the little-known Aid and Attendance benefit, which can provide financial assistance to senior veterans or their spouses who need long-term care but can’t pay for the full costs on their own.
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https://surpassliving.com/veterans-benefits/
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Veterans Benefits: Does the VA Pay for Senior Care?
Happy Veterans Day! Thank you to all who have served!
Cleaning, grocery shopping, cooking, helping with medical appointments, and managing medications are some of the duties of an elderly caregiver. But your responsibilities will ultimately depend on your loved one’s health and needs. If you feel you are unable to maintain the level of care your loved one needs, it may be time to look into assisted living. At Surpass Senior Living, we offer all of the care and assistance for your loved one to live their best life.
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https://surpassliving.com/top-10-duties-and-responsibilities-of-a-senior-caregiver/
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Top 10 Duties and Responsibilities of a Senior Caregiver
Understand how to assess your aging loved one’s ability to complete activities of daily living (ADLs) to help ensure they live their best life.
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https://surpassliving.com/adls-and-iadls-an-essential-guide-for-seniors/
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ADLs and IADLs: An Essential Guide for Seniors
We are happy to announce Surpass Senior Living has administered its first round of the COVID-19 vaccine to its staff and residents! Surpass Senior Living (Surprise) will host their first clinic today and Surpass Senior Living (Gilbert) will host their clinic on Thursday 1/28!
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COVID-19 vaccines now going to assisted living facilities
The biggest vaccination campaign in history has begun. More than 51.9 million doses in 51 countries have been administered, according to data collected by Bloomberg. The latest rate was roughly 2.35 million doses a day, on average.
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https://surpassliving.com/covid-19-vaccine-numbers-to-date/
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COVID-19 Vaccine Numbers to Date
With the approval by the FDA of two COVID-19 vaccines, assisted living communities will be amongst the safest places to live. Assisted living communities will have priority access to the vaccine for its residents and team members. The benefits and care of moving to an assisted living may largely outweigh the alternative of staying home.
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