• Assisted Living
Our staff regularly receive inquiries from the general public including caregivers for information about Assisted Living options for seniors. While OSA is not in a position to recommend any facility or residential strategy for a specific individual, we have prepared a checklist for seniors, their ...

• Guide to Hiring Paid Caregivers for In-Home Services 
This guide helps navigate the process of hiring a paid caregiver. Whether hiring someone yourself or using an agency, this guide provides useful information on finding an appropriate caregiver, and offers tools to ensure that the relationship is successful.

• Health Fraud and What You Can Do to Protect Yourself! 
Health fraud is defined as deceitfully promoting for financial gain a health remedy that has not been proven to work. Health fraud has become a major concern in the US and especially with older adults in the past several years and has grown to be a multi-million dollar problem.

• High Temperatures Prove Dangerous For Senior Citizens 
Older adults are at a higher risk of experiencing heat-related illness. Existing health conditions such as heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity can heighten their vulnerability.

• Home Safety Checklist for Seniors
The safety of one's home is a chief concern. OSA publishes a Home Safety Checklist for Seniors, which is available here.

• Ombudsman Program Fact Sheet 
The Michigan Long Term Care Ombudsman Program was created to help address the quality of care and quality of life experience by residents who reside in licensed long term care facilities such as nursing homes, homes for the aged, and adult foster care facilities.

• Respite Care Consumer Fact Sheet 
There are many different ways and settings in which respite care can be provided. Respite care can be very beneficial to the health and well being of the person providing care as well as the person being cared for.

• Strengthening Skills in Cleaning, Nutrition, and Meal Preparation: Outcomes of a Training Program for Direct Care Workers
"Strengthening Skills in Cleaning, Nutrition, and Meal Preparation" describes the development, delivery, and evaluation of the Home Skills Enhancement Project for direct care workers in Michigan focusing on skill building in three areas: household cleaning, nutrition/food shopping and, meal preparation.

• Michigan Dementia Coalition Direct Care Workers Guide 
The Michigan Dementia Coalition's guide for direct care workers provides information to help direct care workers identify the knowledge and skills needed for providing ideal dementia care.

• What You Should Know About Mercury
By making your home safe from mercury spills you can protect children visiting your home, or living their in the future, from exposure to hazardous mercury vapors.