Geriatric Home Care

By taking many of the burdens of home geriatric care off your shoulders, the trained, skilled home care professionals at Affinity gives you back the freedoms you probably have been going without.

Time for shopping, visiting friends, going to the dentist, getting back to work…

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Alzheimer’s & Dementia Home Care

It’s usually passed off as “just normal” signs of aging. Forgetting where one placed a wallet or handbag, or where the car is parked. Familiar names seem to vanish when trying to recall them, being just on the tip of the tongue but never making it all the way to full consciousness.

While these episodes do pass, they keep cropping up with increased frequency.

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Stroke Home Care

When your loved one has a stroke, they’re in a hospital or rehabilitation center where many resources are available to help them get through their day. However, most people want to come home, and if you are the caregiver, you will be responsible for the day-to-day care of someone who has experienced a debilitating brain attack.

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Congestive Heart Failure Home Care

Congestive heart failure is a condition where the heart is not able to pump blood throughout the body as well as it once could. Since blood is not about to get through the system well, blood begins to back up in areas of the circulatory system which increases blood pressure and forces fluid…

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Macular Degeneration Care

More than 10 million people in the US are diagnosed with macular degeneration. It is typically age related and is a progressive blindness in the eye.

What starts out, around the age of 60, as blurry vision will, over time, become total blindness. It is very important to remember that macular degeneration will not directly affect the mental or any other physical aspects of your loved one.

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Spinal Stenosis Care

At a basic level, spinal stenosis is the degradation of the spine and can lead to pain and discomfort in the lower back, hips, legs and feet. About 25% of the cases of spinal stenosis affect the shoulders, arms and upper body as well. Some people with spinal stenosis do not experience pain, but they may have numbness throughout their body.

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Parkinson’s Home Care

Any diagnosis of a degenerative neurological disease is heart breaking, and Parkinson’s is no exception. When your loved one is facing the long term facts of Parkinson’s, it falls to you as the primary care provider to make them as comfortable as possible.

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Multiple Sclerosis Care

Multiple sclerosis is a neurological disease that will, over time, cause loss of muscle control, balance, vision and sensation. When a person has multiple sclerosis, their immune system, for an unknown reason, will begin attacking and destroying the protective covering on the nerves in the body.

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ALS Home Care

The diagnosis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig’s disease can be just as devastating for the family of the person who has been diagnosed as it is for the person who has received the diagnosis.

If you have a loved one who has recently been diagnosed with ALS, their care may be in your hands.

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Huntington’s Disease Care

Huntington’s disease is a genetic disorder that is progressive. Though there is no cure for Huntington’s at this time, research is ongoing all the time and there are definitely ways to make your loved ones live a life as wonderful as possible, even when dealing with this disease.

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