Tina Glenn is the President of FirstLight Home Care of Guilford. She has over 40 years in healthcare and C-level executive experience of 28 years.
If you are heading home to celebrate the holiday season with family, it’s a perfect opportunity to assess how things are going for your aging parents. Before you make the trip, read the following list of things you can do when you’re home [...]
Smart food choices and proper hydration are important for healthy aging. Eating the right foods with the proper nutrients, while being mindful of the appropriate proportion sizes, is vital. Appetite and thirst tend to diminish as we age. Therefore, older adults often eat and drink less than they need to stay healthy. [...]
It’s common knowledge that regular physical activity helps keep a body fit and healthy. But it can also boost your mood, improve your sleep, and help you better manage depression, anxiety and stress. [...]
Here is a helpful tool to help take some of the worry off of your plate and to be proactive now versus sorry later. EVACUATION PLANNING: A TOOL FOR EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS - A checklist to help determine a caregiver’s or anyone in general’s Disaster Preparedness [...]
Pets come with huge health benefits. Caring for a pet can help relieve depression, lower stress levels, improve heart health, and help with shedding unwanted weight. To know them is to love them. Most know the immediate joys that come with sharing our lives with our fur babies [...]
Home is the Safest Place for Our Elderly During this Uncertain Time. We believe that home remains the safest place for our elderly population right now. Elderly people and those with underlying medical conditions are especially at risk and are most susceptible to the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). [...]
Regular exercise is not only about dropping pounds; it also gives us a healthy glow that cannot be achieved any other way. When we work out regularly, we will see a difference in our body in many ways. Here we go with the list of benefits: [...]
Our two worst enemies when it comes to fighting Winter Blues are a lack of sunshine and our tendency to shut ourselves off from others during the cold winter months. Sunshine is vital for good mental health, and it also provides our bodies with needed Vitamin D. Socialization is vital [...]
FirstLight Home Care, a national provider of non-medical home care, announces that Hearthside Home Care is joining the FirstLight family, becoming the first independent home care provider to convert to a FirstLight franchise. Owners and business partners Tina Glenn and Roget de Percin Berendes have been operating Hearthside Home Care [...]
