Aging parents

Choosing Senior Housing and Care Based on Your Parent’s Needs

As our population ages and more of our national focus is on senior care, we can find ourselves in a muddle over confusing choices....

When an aging parent transitions from their home to assisted living, independent living, a nursing home, or a relative’s home, it can be a...

Dear Carol: My mom is on a waiting list for memory care and should be able to move in soon. I’m struggling to accept...

This Father’s Day, I’ll have fond memories of my dad, as will many caregivers and adult children. The juxtaposition of the past and present...

Our aging loved ones often repeat the same stories over and over again. As our patience wanes, we blame the repetition on memory issues,...

A recent question brought back memories from my early days of caregiving. The member wrote, “My 81-year-old father still thinks he can do handyman...

Note: This is an older article so the types of anesthesia have (in some cases) changed. That said, it’s clear that undergoing a procedure...

Watching out for elders has always come naturally for me. I grew up close to my grandparents, and during my teenage years, my paternal...

Get used to it – the guilt, I mean. The incessant phone call thing was just one of the many games I had to...

Dear Carol: I feel like I’m failing everyone because I can’t do everything well. I work full-time, and my kids are in middle school,...