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5 Home Decor Ideas to Bring Good Vibes to Your House

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Home decor ideas to enliven, brighten and rejuvenate your living spaces. Our living environment is more than just a space we spend time in. The way it looks can influence our mood and feelings, and can have a positive or negative effect on our mental well-being. If your current home environment does not fill you […]

How to Make Long-Term Care Feel Like Home

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Making long-term care feel like home can be challenging. This is especially true, since often times a person is moving from an environment where they’ve lived and felt in control for many years. By choosing the right type and location, with the features and amenities a person would like, it can help tremendously. Also, helping […]

Transition of Care From Hospital to Home – Infographic

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The transition of care from hospital to home is vitally important to you or your loved one’s health and wellbeing. In the medical world, such a transition is called a transitional care strategy. According to an article by Stephanie Rennke, MD and Sumant R. Ranji, MD, entitled, “Transitional Care Strategies From Hospital to Home, A […]

Award Winning Universal Design Home Video

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This award winning universal design home comes to us courtesy of the Livable Communities Awards. Located in Pasadena, CA and designed by Jeannine Clark of Mannigan Design, Inc., winner of the award in the Major Space Remodel category. This single level condo, owned by a senior couple, runs a little over 1,400 square feet. The […]

Will Empty Spaces Affect Your Aging?

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I was working with a client not long ago who afforded me one of those “epiphany” moments. We were diligently rearranging her kitchen because she felt it difficult to work in. She said she could not find the things she needed when she needed them, items were scattered about and nothing seemed to have any […]