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Signs to Watch for This Holiday Season - Virtually or In-Person

Whether you’re able to see your aging loved ones in person or on video call, please review these warning signs to keep a lookout for. While we’ve kept our senior friends safe from COVID-19 through social distancing, the isolation is really taking its toll. This checklist will help you easily determine if your loved one could use some help – and companionship. If you’re visiting by video, see if your loved one can safely show you around their home to check for some of these signs.

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Thanksgiving in 2020

Well, friends, we know Thanksgiving won’t look like holiday celebrations in the past. You’ve already made the hard decisions and the tough calls, and even though it hurts, you did the right thing.

Have you made your virtual gathering plans yet?

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Meet Your Brain — Your New Social Distancing Best Friend

Sure, we’re all tired of social distancing. This is not the world any of us intended to be living in. But to stay safe, we need to keep that social distancing thing going at least a little longer — especially for our vulnerable senior loved ones.

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News: Overture Home Care leadership team earns Certified Dementia Practitioner designations

Denise Helms, R.N., CEO of Overture Home Care, a Fort Worth, Texas-based home care service company, has announced that the company now has three Certified Dementia Practitioners on staff: Ms. Helms, executive director Zach Tarrant, and senior vice president Paige Wolk. Ms. Wolk earned her certification previously; Ms. Helms and Mr. Tarrant were certified this year.

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Overture's COVID-19 Coordinator

You may know Cherae Slack, R.N., as one of our nurse liaisons, but with COVID-19 threatening our senior friends and loved ones, we immediately designated Cherae as our COVID-19 Coordinator. In this role, she supports staff and families, ensures proper protocol, and stays up-to-the-minute on local, state, national, and regulatory recommendations and mandates.

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This May, please join us in celebrating Older Americans Month

Our older relatives, friends and neighbors have been most at risk during the COVID-19 crisis. That risk continues for them, even as states around the country — including our own Texas — begin to reopen. As some of us reclaim more normal lives, our elderly loved ones are still facing both a viral pandemic and a very real pandemic of isolation and loneliness. Let us take this month to recommit to reaching out and to providing companionship and connection in any way possible.

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Overture Home Care earns perfect score on state survey

Denise Helms, R.N., CEO of Overture Home Care, a Fort Worth, Texas-based home care service company, has announced that Overture earned a perfect score in the recent state survey of elder care providers conducted by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.

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April Is National Occupational Therapy Month — And This April, Occupational Therapists Need Our Help

Let’s give a hand to the occupational therapists who work hard to make the lives of our senior loved ones more comfortable and fulfilling. If you are a senior caregiver, you know the valuable services that occupational therapists provide — from training in basic mobility to help with domestic tasks, self-care routines and important communication, recreational and social skills.

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April Is Stress Awareness Month, and These Are Stressful Times

We know why you are here, reading this. We know that caring for an aging parent or loved one has placed you under tremendous stress during the current COVID-19 crisis. We know that you worry about caring for high-risk elderly family members, and that you obsess over the conflicting need to keep them physically separated from the rest of your family.

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A Concise Guide to Grocery Shopping for Seniors in the Age of COVID-19

It is hard to remember that just a few weeks ago the major concerns we had with grocery shopping for our senior loved ones related to healthy dietary choices and mobility.

Those issues are still concerns, of course, but we have new issues now in irregular store hours, worries about daily restocking of basic products and the recommendation that we keep shopping trips and social interaction in stores to a minimum. Getting a handle on healthy eating for older adults is still essential — and we’ve included a link to a downloadable document that offers dietary and nutritional guidelines from the National Institute on Aging — but it’s also important to have a plan for safely and reliably fulfilling those dietary needs before heading out the door.

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