How to Navigate Hospital Discharge for Seniors: A Central Texas Family Guide

How to Navigate Hospital Discharge for Seniors: A Central Texas Family Guide

Reviewed by John Brown, CSASenior Industry Services | Central Texas A hospital discharge can happen much faster than a family expects. One day, your parent or spouse is in a hospital bed surrounded by nurses, physicians and equipment. Then you hear the words: “They...
10 Signs It May Be Time to Ask About Hospice Care: A Central Texas Family Guide

10 Signs It May Be Time to Ask About Hospice Care: A Central Texas Family Guide

Knowing when to ask about hospice care can be difficult. Families often wait because they believe hospice is only for the final days of life or that asking about it means giving up. Hospice is comfort-focused care for people with a terminal illness who meet specific...
Finding Your Oasis Is More Than Finding a Place: Why Relationships Matter in Senior Living

Finding Your Oasis Is More Than Finding a Place: Why Relationships Matter in Senior Living

An oasis is traditionally a place of refuge, rest and renewal—a place where life can flourish even when the journey around it has become difficult. That meaning has always resonated with what we do at Oasis Senior Advisors. When families across Austin and Central...
Home Care vs. Home Health vs. Palliative Care vs. Hospice: A Central Texas Family Guide

Home Care vs. Home Health vs. Palliative Care vs. Hospice: A Central Texas Family Guide

If you’re reading this because Mom is being discharged from the hospital tomorrow, Dad had another fall, or someone just mentioned hospice, you may suddenly be hearing terms you never expected to have to understand. Home Care. Home Health. Palliative Care....
Where Aging Meets Opportunity: Building Senior-Care Businesses in Central Texas

Where Aging Meets Opportunity: Building Senior-Care Businesses in Central Texas

People are living longer, and in Central Texas that shift is landing on top of some of the fastest population growth in the country. As the Austin-Round Rock metro continues to expand and families juggle jobs with caring for aging parents, the gap between what local...