HammerToe Nursing Footcare

HammerToe Nursing Footcare Mobile Nursing -
Routine Footcare in Venice, Sarasota, & Longboat Key and surrounding communities. Nail trims, callus reduction. Seniors & Homebound Patients.

Referring all medical concerns to podiatry

Mark your calendars! Great event! 💕 Parrish, FL
09/03/2026

Mark your calendars! Great event! 💕 Parrish, FL

Call or text 941-941-3668 for Footcare!
08/26/2026

Call or text 941-941-3668 for Footcare!

Give us a call or a text! 941-941-3668 - Prompt and caring service! 💕
08/26/2026

Give us a call or a text! 941-941-3668 - Prompt and caring service! 💕

🦶 WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CHECKED YOUR AGING PARENT’S TOENAILS? 👀We remember the medications.We check the blood press...
08/10/2026

🦶 WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CHECKED YOUR AGING PARENT’S TOENAILS? 👀

We remember the medications.
We check the blood pressure.
We make sure they’re eating.

But their feet can easily be overlooked. ❤️

As our parents age, toenails can become thicker, harder to trim, brittle, curved, or painful. Changes in eyesight, flexibility, balance, and hand strength can also make something as simple as trimming toenails surprisingly difficult.

✨ A few helpful tips when caring for aging parents:

🦶 Take a look at their feet regularly — especially between the toes and around the nails.

🧦 Watch for redness, swelling, sores, drainage, or areas where shoes are rubbing.

👟 Make sure shoes aren’t too tight around thick or curved toenails.

🚫 Don’t dig into the corners of an ingrown nail or aggressively cut thick nails.

🩺 If your loved one has diabetes, poor circulation, numbness, very thick nails, or other medical concerns, professional foot and nail care may be the safer choice.

And one more thing…

Ask them if their feet hurt.

Sometimes our parents don’t mention the little things because they don’t want to “bother” us. But foot and toenail problems can affect comfort, walking, balance, and independence.

💙 Caring for aging parents includes caring for the feet that have carried them through a lifetime.

🦶 HammerToe Nursing Footcare
Professional nursing foot & nail care with dignity, compassion, and attention to detail.

📲 Have an aging parent who could use a little extra help with their feet? Send us a message.

High Risk patients accepted
08/08/2026

High Risk patients accepted

Helping an aging parent? Don’t forget to check their feet. 👣If you’re helping care for an aging parent, there’s one litt...
08/08/2026

Helping an aging parent? Don’t forget to check their feet. 👣

If you’re helping care for an aging parent, there’s one little area that can be surprisingly easy to overlook: their feet.

As we get older, bending down gets harder, eyesight changes, skin becomes thinner and drier, and toenails can become thick or difficult to manage. Sometimes an older adult simply can’t see or feel a small problem developing.

Here are a few simple things you can look for when visiting Mom, Dad, or another older loved one:

• Take a peek at their toes and heels. Look for redness, swelling, cracks, blisters, sores, or areas where a shoe may be rubbing.

• Check between the toes. Excess moisture, peeling, redness, or irritated skin can sometimes go unnoticed.

• Notice the toenails. Are they becoming very thick, curved, discolored, painful, or pressing into the neighboring toe? Don’t assume every thick nail is fungus.

• Look at their shoes. Older feet can change shape over time. Shoes that once fit comfortably may now be creating pressure on hammertoes, bunions, corns, or other tender areas.

• Help with dry skin. A simple moisturizer on the tops and bottoms of the feet can help with dryness and cracking. Generally, avoid putting moisturizer between the toes, where excess moisture can cause problems.

• Ask a surprisingly important question: “Do your feet hurt anywhere?” Older adults don’t always mention foot discomfort unless someone asks.

And one important caution: if your loved one has diabetes, poor circulation, loss of feeling in the feet, or a sore that isn’t healing, be extra careful with DIY trimming or treating corns and calluses at home. Those feet deserve professional attention.

Sometimes good caregiving is simply noticing the little things before they become big things.

Just sharing a little foot-care knowledge from a neighborhood nurse. ❤️👣

I’ve seen so much, and I promise there’s ZERO judgement. 😊
08/05/2026

I’ve seen so much, and I promise there’s ZERO judgement. 😊

To clarify what exactly we do 🫶
08/04/2026

To clarify what exactly we do 🫶

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