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Pulmonary rehabilitation involves teaching and training patients with chronic lung disease to breathe better. Your dedicated healthcare team designs a personalized rehabilitation program to help you in several ways.

If you suffer from chronic lung disease, you may well be advised by your physician to consider pulmonary therapy. In this article, we’ll explore the basics of pulmonary therapy and the many potential benefits it may offer you, both physically and emotionally. 

For those with loved ones who are getting older, healthcare needs tend to increase later in life. With that shift, it can also be difficult to understand and navigate the healthcare system when the time comes.

Deciding whether or not an Alzheimer’s patient should go to a nursing home can be extraordinarily difficult. Caregivers may feel guilty or anxious about placing a loved one in a nursing home - they may feel that they are taking the easy way out or letting the patient down.

Caring for a family member with dementia, whether in a care facility or at home, may seem like a daunting challenge. Dementia changes the way the person remembers, communicates, and behaves. The personality and abilities of the person you once knew may change.

If you’re caring for someone with Alzheimer’s, you are very likely to need support. Alzheimer’s is a devastating illness for the sufferer, but can also place overwhelming demands on the caregiver.

When your family is impacted by Alzheimer’s, you may feel tremendous responsibility to care for your loved one and feel as though a nursing home is the last resort. However, modern improvements in technology and standards of care make Alzheimer’s care centers one of the most respected resources available to you and your family. 

A new dementia diagnosis in your family can have a significant impact on everyone involved. You and your loved one may have difficulty coming to terms with the emotions, lifestyle adjustments, and expectations that come along with that type of diagnosis.

What is Sundowner’s Syndrome? 

Sundowner's syndrome (or sundowning) is the commonly-used term for the sudden appearance or worsening of neuropsychiatric symptoms in the late afternoon.

If you are caring for a loved one who is aging or suffers from Alzheimer’s or dementia, you may well have noticed major changes in their behavior in the evenings. Symptoms may continue to worsen as the night goes on, and then fade considerably in the morning. 

Dementia and Alzheimer’s researchers have been making some remarkable breakthroughs in recent months. Here are just a few of the most significant discoveries.