Author Archives: Louise Savoie
Do You Need Palliative or Hospice Care?
If you have a senior loved one who needs health care, you may be considering either palliative or hospice care. However, what is the difference between these two? As a provider of senior care in San Antonio Texas, we often get asked this...
Read More ›Planning Wisely for Advanced Heart Failure
Heart failure is when the heart is no longer pumping as well as it should be. Congestive heart failure is a type of heart failure that requires seeking timely medical attention. This is a serious condition and usually, there is no cure. However,...
Read More ›Deciding When to Stop Dialysis
Some dialysis patients may come to a point in their lives wherein they feel that they want to stop treatment. Sometimes, this feeling can be triggered by the notion that dialysis is no longer maintaining or improving their quality of life. If...
Read More ›Hospice Care for Dementia: When Is It Time?
Most families with no prior exposure to hospice care may not know that a patient does not need to have to a terminal diagnosis to be qualified for hospice care in San Antonio Texas or elsewhere, for that matter. Among the conditions that...
Read More ›What Are the Risk Factors for Complicated Grief?
Grief is a normal response to loss. And for most people, while grieving is a difficult process, they can eventually accept loss, adjust to a new reality, and then move forward. However, some experience what is called complicated grief where...
Read More ›Your Most Dependable Senior Care Partner
When it comes to senior care in San Antonio Texas, we are the most trusted in the industry. We recognize that as people get older, their capacities diminish. As a result, elderly care is needed to assist them in their everyday activities. We...
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