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At Merry Home Healthcare, we understand the importance of hiring an in home care provider who can put your loved one at ease. It’s never easy to hire a caregiver for your loved one. Finding the best possible in home care provider is your most important task. We can help. Merry Home Healthcare is a bonded, licensed and insured in-home care agency. We hire only the most experienced caregivers to join our team. Each caregiver we hire must pass an extensive interview and reference check process. We also ask our elder care providers to participate in pre-employment drug screens and …

When you’re searching for home care for your loved one, it can be a difficult and emotional chapter. You want to make sure your loved one is comfortable, happy and safe in his or her own home. This guide will help you get there — clarifying each step of the process so you can make an informed decision that’s best for you and your loved one. Assess how urgent the situation is for your loved one. Has your loved one: Recently been discharged from the hospital? Experienced physical limitations? Participated in physical rehabilitation recently? Experienced lapses in memory? Been unable …

Maybe you know of one living nearby. An elderly senior, someone you see around town, at the grocery store or your favorite local diner. You immediately feel bad, because it seems like this person is lonely. Sadly, it’s likely this person’s reality. These days more older adults are aging without a spouse or children, and that’s creating unique problems. The number of women not having children is growing. It’s already increased from one in nine in a generation not having kids to one in five. This begs the question: when these people eventually need assistance to live, who will be …