News & Noteworthy from Luxe Homecare

Explore the new Covid-19 vaccination requirements now in place for home care and home health workers in the state of California and Los Angeles County.

Planning care for our parents and senior loved ones is important. Find out how to decide on the right professional care they need.

Our loved ones can benefit greatly from the added support of home care. Learn the behaviors that accompany a readiness for professional caregivers.

If you have aging loved ones in your life, chances are you and they will, at one time or another, require in home health care. Whether the decision is due to a recovery from a hospitalization, a long term illness or allowing your loved one to continue to age independently in their own home; you […]

You might be surprised to know that you can be classed as a ‘long distance carer’ while only living one hour away from your loved one. In the greater Los Angeles area this distance is not uncommon. In fact, approximately 5 to 7 million Americans are long-distance caregivers in the US, and this is expected […]

Aging in place helps to improve the quality of life of seniors and thanks to advances in technology, there are some products that can help you look out for your loved one should a fall happen. Falls are a major concern in the elderly and from 2007 to 2016 the fall death rate in the […]

The introduction of social distancing measures have changed many people’s lives significantly. From not being able to see loved ones to spending large amounts of time at home, most people are having to make significant adjustments to how they live. For older adults, this may be even more pronounced. The CDC has confirmed that older […]

We’ve all been in that place before. Your parent calls and needs a ride to a doctor’s appointment or the grocery store right away. You typically clear your schedule for these types of situations, but you’ve had something come up at work, and you have to take care of it. Or maybe you’re out of […]

Families have a choice of hiring an independent in-home caregiver that they find on a registry or through a friend or working with a licensed agency such as Luxe Homecare. What’s the difference? Although non-agency workers typically charge less per hour, they come with a few unknowns. Unlike agencies that vet, insure, and train their […]

The day has come. Your mom or dad needs assistance in their home. They may require help with the basic activities of daily living such as eating, bathing, and dressing; meal planning, preparation or diet monitoring; light housekeeping or help with laundry; medication reminders; companionship; rides or escorts to appointments or post-hospitalization/post-surgical care. You’ve never […]