Chicago Home Care

Margalit Tocher

Helping parents move from a home they have lived in for years is a very challenging task – a task that most of us will have to go through at some point in our lives. Amy Goyer, of AARP, describes the difficulties and mistakes she made while helping to move her parents out [...]

Margalit Tocher

This is an interesting article featured on aarp.org that discusses a study that was presented at the Alzheimer’s Association 2010 International Conference. Study findings show how drinking coffee and tea may benefit your health. It found that the memory of regular tea drinkers declined a third less with age compared to the memory [...]

Margalit Tocher

Meditation has been found to reduce stress, lower blood pressure and diminish the risk of strokes, but it recently has been linked to decreasing the symptoms of old age. An article in AARP by Michael Haederle talks about these meditation benefits and the brain. The research is based on [...]

Margalit Tocher

Findings from Harvard researchers link more exercise and restricted calorie intake to delayed mental and physical deterioration, because exercising and watching what you eat rejuvenates the connections between the nerves and muscles that they control.

Researcher Joshua Sanes, a professor of molecular and cellular biology and Director of the Center for Brain Science at [...]

Margalit Tocher

A fascinating article from The Wall Street Journal brings to light several interesting issues that emerge among siblings when their parents start needing care.

If you are a caregiver for a family member or loved one in the Chicago North Shore area, an outside caregiver may be an excellent option for relief to ensure you [...]

Margalit Tocher

It is a very challenging task to take care of someone who has Alzheimer’s or another form of memory loss in your home. The story of a 60-year-old Brooklyn resident named John that cares for his Uncle Karl who has Alzheimer’s was featured in a Huffington Post article by Kathryn [...]

Margalit Tocher

Great article on msn.com that discusses how home care after hip surgery may increase survival of patients according to a new study published by the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

If you are a caregiver for a family member or loved one in the Chicago North Shore area, an outside caregiver may [...]

Margalit Tocher

Recent studies suggest Lou Gehrig might not have had Lou Gehrig’s disease according to this New York Times article.  Gehrig exhibited the same symptoms associated with A.L.S. but its causes might have been different.  A study published in a prominent journal on neuropathology suggests that athletes and soldiers given the diagnosis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis [...]

Margalit Tocher

According to this article from care2.com, scientists have recently discovered many health benefits that can be attributed to pets. Many people intuitively believe that pets have healing benefits, but now there’s scientific proof!

1.    Pets lessen the risk of allergies and asthma: Recent studies have found that children who grow up in homes with dogs [...]

Margalit Tocher

Check out this article from the Trib Local written about our ribbon cutting ceremony in Kenilworth, Illinois!

If you are a caregiver for a family member or loved one in the Chicago North Shore area, an outside caregiver may be an excellent option for relief to [...]