BrightStar Care Blog

Each year, it is our honor to celebrate the best of the best Caregivers, Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs), and Home Health Aides (HHAs), throughout the BrightStar Care organization through our Caregiver of the Year program. Our Regional...

What makes nurses so special? We believe it is a special combination of head and heart. They have the knowledge and clinical expertise to provide the very best care as well as genuine compassion and empathy during their patients' most...

In honor of National Family Caregivers Month, BrightStar Care took a look at the most popular family caregiver activities across the country. Based on national search data from Google, cooking with seniors is popular in the West region.In the West...

When Your Chico Senior Has Dementia And Doesn't Want Medication   How To Convince Your Chico Senior With Dementia To Take Medication  By Sharon Roth Maguire, MS, RN, GNP-BC Chief Clinical Quality Officer, BrightStar Care Chico...

Healthy Baking and Cooking Tips for Chico Seniors   Tips for Chico Seniors on Cooking and Baking in a Healthy Way   Helping your Chico senior loved one follow a special diet for heart disease or diabetes may not mean they have to...

BrightStar and Sepsis: How to Help Chico SeniorsHelping Chico Seniors with Sepsis Sepsis (Septicemia) is one of the most common reasons individuals are readmitted to the hospital after a procedure or treatment for another condition, but many...

We are thrilled to announce that we’ve received the 2017 Best of Home Care – Provider of Choice Award from Home Care Pulse. Only the nation’s top-ranking home care providers earn this distinction based on client satisfaction scores gathered by...

Heart Healthy Lifestyle as a Chico SeniorHow to be Heart Healthy as a Chico Senior February is American Heart Month, making it the perfect time to commit to living a healthier lifestyle for Chico seniors. Family history is one major risk factor...

Chico Seniors and Infusion Nurses: Compassionate Relationships Make a DifferenceThe Relationship Between Chico Seniors  and Infusion Nurses: Compassionate Nurses Makes all the Difference Every January 25th is National Infusion Nurse's Day. Do you...

Winter Safety for Chico Seniors Tips on Safety and Health for the Chico Senior in Winter January can not only bring a lot of beautiful snow, but also slippery ice and freezing temperatures. Whether you live up north where it easily drops below...