Home Care Services Houston TX: Facts About Hypertension
By Barbara Floria

A healthy blood pressure level can reduce your risk for many serious diseases and increase your longevity. Hiring home care services can help seniors by providing a caregiver to help with medication reminders and tracking to bring levels under control.

If you have high blood pressure, your heart has to work harder to pump blood through the arteries to your organs. This increased pressure poses the potential for serious health risks, according to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

Familiarizing yourself with the following fictions and facts about this dangerous and common condition can help you learn if you have it and take steps to control it.

Fiction: Even though my blood pressure is chronically high, there’s nothing serious for me to worry about.

Fact: Chronic high blood pressure increases the risk for heart disease and stroke. It also can lead to other conditions, such as congestive heart failure, kidney damage, dementia, and blindness. On average, one American dies every two minutes from complications of high blood pressure.

Fiction: My blood pressure is pretty good; being a few points over doesn’t matter.

Fact: Health guidelines state that even slight elevations in blood pressure significantly increase the risk for stroke or heart attack. It doesn’t take much of a sustained increase in blood pressure to raise your chance of developing problems with your heart, blood vessels, brain, or kidneys. Optimal blood pressure for most adults is less than 120/80 mm Hg.

Fiction: If I had high blood pressure, I would feel it.

Fact: Most people with high blood pressure have no symptoms, so they don’t know they have it. That’s why it’s important to have your blood pressure checked at least once a year by your health care provider.

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Donna Wrabel, LMSW

Co-Owner at At Your Side Home Care

For most of us, the word "home" evokes warm feelings of comfort, security and well-being. For older adults, home also means holding tight to cherished memories and maintaining self-esteem and independence. When illness, injury or age make life a little more challenging, remaining at home in a comfortable, familiar environment encourages recovery and enhances the quality of life. Home can be defined as a private residence, an independent or assisted living facility or even a short term stay in the hospital, we recognize the additional benefits provided by a personal, professional assistant.

Our Certified Nurse Aides, 24-Hour Live-in Assistants and Home Health Aides are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We also provide the security and confidence of 24-hour Telephone Assistance, so fast, reliable help is always available when it's needed. To learn more about our homecare services see our homecare services page.

Different people need different levels of homecare. To meet the requirements of our clients, At Your Side Homecare maintains consistent staffing levels of caring professionals. Homecare service is available for as little as a few hours a week, or as many as 24 hours a day, seven days a week

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