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How to Help Seniors with Decreased Appetite Eat Again?

Senior Cannot Eat - Los Angeles senior home careThroughout our life, eating fresh and healthy food is essential to our wellbeing. In case of seniors, nutrition is one of the major prerequisites for better health and longer life. That is why experienced Los Angeles senior home care experts take extra care when planning and preparing seniors’ meals. But if you are your senior loved one’s caregiver you know that sometimes no matter how much effort you put into cooking or how tasty the meal is, seniors refuse to eat.

Lack of appetite can sometimes be a symptom of a dangerous medical issue or a side-effect of a medication. Other times it’s a reflection of the seniors’ mood or just stubbornness. In any case, inadequate nutrition is linked to numerous dangerous conditions. Therefore, it’s up to caregivers to make sure their senior loved ones or clients get their daily dose of energy and healthy nutrients.

But how can you do that when your senior loved one refuses to eat?

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4 Caregiver Traits That Can Make or Break Their Relationship with a Senior

Caregiver and Senior - Los Angeles Senior Home CarePairing a senior and a caregiver is not as easy as you might imagine. Finding the perfect client-caregiver match takes a lot of effort. It takes planning and carefully analyzing the needs of the client and matching them with a qualified caregiver. But even flawless qualifications won’t be enough if the caregiver and the senior cannot communicate well or simply don’t connect on a deeper level.

Here at A Better Way in Home Care, the leading Los Angeles Senior Home Care provider, we take pairing clients and caregivers very seriously. We do everything in an effort to improve your beloved seniors’ quality of life at their venerable age. We aim to find the best possible match on every level, which is why we refer reliable, qualified and experienced caregivers.

For the perfect match to happen, the client and the caregiver have to connect on several levels. Here are some of the factors that could make or break a perfect senior-caregiver relationship.

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