Healthcare Professional Blog
How Brookdale Can Help With Diabetes Management
Between preventative wellness measures, insulin management and other related health conditions, diabetes can be a difficult condition to manage, especially as individuals begin to age. Brookdale’s communities are ready to help seniors manage their diabetes, allowing them to continue to live a full life, despite their chronic condition.
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How Senior Living Can Help Improve Appetite
When aging adults don’t seem as interested in food as they used to be, it can be difficult to figure out why. It’s more important than ever for seniors to get the nutrients they need everyday. But if they are living on their own and can’t prepare meals for themselves anymore, other health conditions may arise and become a concern. Senior living may help your patients get back on track with their nutrition goals, promoting their overall well-being.
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Why Skin Protection Is Just as Important for Seniors
Children and young adults are often told to protect their skin from the sun to reduce the risk of skin cancer and prevent premature aging. But skin protection is just as important for seniors. With decades of sun-exposure and age-related skin changes, seniors face unique risks that make ongoing sun protection particularly important. We’re exposed to UV rays our entire lives, which is why consistent skin protection is essential regardless of age.
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How Senior Living Could Help Your Patients With PTSD
Aging veterans facing PTSD can often feel isolated and stuck. Your patients experiencing PTSD may have different care needs than those without it. Here’s how Brookdale supports residents with PTSD.
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Helping Your Patient Navigate the Right Senior Living Solution for Them
What are the different levels of senior living? When is at-home care not enough anymore? What’s the difference between skilled nursing and assisted living? These are all questions your patients and their families might ask you regarding senior living. Knowing when it’s time for senior living and understanding the different levels of care can be overwhelming, so here are a few ways you might break it down for your patients and their families.
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How Senior Living Can Help Identify Signs of Cognitive Decline and Support Healthy Living
Senior living can also help preserve cognitive functioning and well-being by providing supportive care within an environment that enables residents to sustain brain-healthy lifestyle habits.
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10 Tips for Having a Conversation With Your Patient About Financing Senior Living
As a HCP involved in the care of older adults, you are positioned to help patients and their families navigate how to pay for senior living. In this blog, we'll discuss how.
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How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? Responding to Stress Cardiomyopathy
In this blog, we’ll discuss healthy tools for dealing with the grief, anger, fear and other strong emotions that can induce "broken heart syndrome."
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How Data Can Help Add Value and Improve Outcomes in Senior Care
Today’s senior living communities and healthcare providers are swimming in data. But, in order to add value, help improve outcomes and enhance quality of life and care, they must effectively leverage these priceless assets.
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What to Consider When Choosing Senior Care: Assisted Living Edition
Consider taking a fresh look at how assisted living fits into care transitions and outcomes that matter most to your older adult patients.
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The Caregiver’s Mindset: Emotional Wellness and Practical Tools
Being a caregiver is a calling. Whether by your own interests and passions or by sheer necessity, you have been called to the essential work you are doing.
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Breast Cancer Awareness for Seniors: Screening, Support and Survivorship
Breast cancer is a topic close to our hearts at Brookdale Senior Living, and Breast Cancer Awareness Month is an ideal time to discuss the importance of screening for all ages, particularly senior adults.
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National Assisted Living Week: A Timely Opportunity for Recognition, Celebration, Education
Brookdale Senior Living welcomes the week as an important opportunity for recognition, celebration and education.
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Ethics, Decision-Making and Boundaries in Long-Term Care
Decision-making can be a challenge in cases of cognitive impairment or end-of-life care. How can you be sure you’re doing “the right thing”?
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Helping to Prevent Falls in Older Adults: How Healthcare Professionals Can Help
Those of us who support and partner with older adults in their care must be vigilant and diligent in our efforts to help them avoid falling — and, if they do fall, to try to minimize the impact.
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