{"id":2235,"date":"2021-09-23T10:21:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T15:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/houston\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2021-09-23T10:21:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T15:21:03","slug":"home-care-assistance-home-care-assistance-and-cholesterol-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/houston\/home-care-assistance-home-care-assistance-and-cholesterol-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Care Assistance and Cholesterol Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/houston\/\"><em><strong>National Cholesterol Education Month every September<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is an opportunity for you and your senior to take a closer look at what cholesterol is and how it affects overall health. The more your senior knows about this health condition, the easier it will be for her and her home care assistance aides to address health concerns related to cholesterol.<\/p>\n<h3><em><strong>Learning More about Cholesterol Is Vital<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2236\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2236\" src=\"https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/houston\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/bigstock-cholesteral-82799195-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"Home Care Assistance Cypress TX - Home Care Assistance and Cholesterol Education\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/houston\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/bigstock-cholesteral-82799195-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/houston\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/bigstock-cholesteral-82799195-768x557.jpg 768w, https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/houston\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/bigstock-cholesteral-82799195.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Home Care Assistance Cypress TX &#8211; Home Care Assistance and Cholesterol Education<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>High cholesterol is a health concern, but it\u2019s one that does not have a great many overt symptoms until it\u2019s seriously advanced. National Cholesterol Education Month gives you and your senior a chance to learn more about what high cholesterol is, what it can do, and why it\u2019s impactful on your senior\u2019s health. Tackling cholesterol issues early can help your senior to avoid heart disease and other complications.<\/p>\n<h3><em><strong>Your Senior May Get Her Cholesterol Checked<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s an excellent idea to talk to your senior\u2019s doctor and to get her cholesterol levels checked. Your senior\u2019s doctor can help her to understand how cholesterol affects her individual health and what changes she might need to make. Changes having to do with activity levels and dietary changes can be a lot easier if your senior is open to home care assistance, too.<\/p>\n<h3><em><strong>She May Decide to Make Better Health Choices<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Knowing more about cholesterol in general and about her cholesterol levels in particular can help your senior to feel inspired to make some different choices regarding her health. It\u2019s difficult to decide to eat differently or to embrace other changes, like doctor-recommended exercise programs. But when she has a reason to do so, that can help quite a bit.<\/p>\n<h3><em><strong>Your Senior May Realize it\u2019s a Good Idea to Have Home Care Assistance<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p>But understanding why she needs to make changes doesn\u2019t mean that\u2019s suddenly easy for your senior. She may be more open to the idea to having home care\u00a0 providers helping her, however, especially if she\u2019s shut that idea down in the past. Home care assistance can make healthy meals for her, remind her to take medications, and help with daily tasks that reduce your senior\u2019s stress levels. All of that can be a tremendous help.<\/p>\n<p>Your loved one might be surprised just how quickly she can start to see results when she\u2019s committed to tackling her cholesterol issues head on. It won\u2019t happen overnight but sticking with the things that work helps so very much and your senior may find that she feels better overall, too.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>If you or an aging loved-one are considering <a href=\"\/houston\/services\/meal-preparation\/\"><em>Home Care Assistance Services in Cypress TX<\/em><\/a>, please contact the caring staff at Hearts at Home Senior Care. Call us today <a href=\"tel:7135152567\"><em>713-515-2567<\/em><\/a>. We serve all of the Houston area.<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home Care Assistance Cypress TX-National Cholesterol Education Month every September is an opportunity for you and your senior to take a closer look at what cholesterol is and how it affects overall health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[227,8,72],"tags":[229,228,202],"class_list":{"0":"post-2235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cholesterol","8":"category-general-topics","9":"category-seniors-health-issues","10":"tag-cholesterol","11":"tag-home-care-assistance-cypress-tx","12":"tag-seniors-health-issues","13":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2237,"href":"https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions\/2237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsathome.com\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}