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Industry news and tips for Senior Care Facilities & Senior Living industries from Reliable Water Services. Information about senior living, healthcare trends, and retirement communities; tips for choosing the right retirement or assisted living home for your loved ones, and trends in healthcare such as holistic care, advanced healthcare technologies, and memory care. Reliable Water Services provides hot water heater rentals and service plans to Senior Care Facilities & Senior Living industry companies across Southeastern Wisconsin, Indiana, and other areas of the upper Midwest.

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Senior Care Facilities & Senior Living

Hearing Aid Cleaning and Care

Hearing aids are often necessary as we age, but how do we care for these critical (and often expensive) devices?

In a senior living facility, it’s easy for little things to get lost in the endless list of day-to-day assistance your staff must provide. But overlooking proper hearing aid cleaning can have serious health and wellness consequences. Here’s what you need to know about helping your seniors with hearing aid maintenance and cleaning.

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Nursing Home Best Practices for Common Problems

Is your nursing home administration prepared to adapt to new laws, meet federal compliance regulations, and ensure the health and happiness of your residents and employees?

Nursing home best practices are guidelines put in place by administrators based on city, state, and federal requirements and the particular needs of the care facility. Often potential challenges are overlooked until the problem suddenly arises or your facility has a major violation. A successful care facility has best practices in place for any scenario.

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Medicare Tips for Seniors and Facility Directors

Medicare can be difficult to navigate and even harder to explain to those with no experience.

While administrators and directors of senior care facilities may understand the nuisances of Medicare coverage for their services, many seniors and their families do not. Here are 6 tips senior facility directors can use to help families and residents get to the core of Medicare long-term care coverage. These tips provide a clear path through the chaos so that you can answer your new resident’s questions easily and provide them with additional resources to help pay for their facility care.

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Holistic Senior Care: Total Health & Wellness for Seniors

You’re already running a healthcare center staffed with medical professionals. Why not explore a more holistic approach to elderly care?

Your caregivers and team members assist residents above and beyond the call of duty. So, how can you take the next step in healthcare excellence? To attract more residents, consider incorporating holistic health activities and programs to improve what’s already available at your facility.

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Senior Care Facilities & Senior Living

Animal Therapy for Dementia Care

Dementia is one of the biggest, most heartbreaking challenges in senior care.

If you’re working with memory care patients, animal-assisted therapy can be a powerful tool to help residents connect. Many seniors with dementia respond favorably to animal therapy. Any residential facility for elderly patients will have patients in different stages of dementia. Your program most likely includes memory care, and pet therapy is an excellent way to add services – and keep your residents happier and healthier.

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Senior Care Facilities & Senior Living

The Power of Plants: Nature and Green Space for Seniors

Nature is healing and healthy. If you’re working in senior living, you probably know how crucial fresh air and sunshine can be for residents.

You can just feel it. Getting outdoors into the sunshine and among the trees and plants is good for your physical and mental health. And while spending time outdoors is recommended for people of all ages, it’s harder to get out as we get older. Finding ways to encourage the seniors in your life to go outside can be difficult. So here are some ideas for getting more green space on site.

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Keeping Residents Hydrated: 13 Hydration Tips for Seniors

Water keeps your residents healthy, but can you be sure they’re drinking enough?

Dehydration can be a critical problem in the elderly, and keeping seniors healthy can be a challenge, particularly when serving populations with dementia. Residents can forget the importance of drinking regularly and forget whether they have had a drink recently. Here is why hydration is so essential, and 17 hydration tips for seniors to encourage you, residents, to up their daily intake.

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