Brain Health

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...

A recent question on the AgingCare Caregiver Forum brought back memories from my early days of caregiving. The member wrote, “My 81-year-old...

Note: The study referred to here is older because this is an older article. However, the message of the article to use...

When it comes to caring for the elderly, hygiene issues are surprisingly common. Determining why their bathing habits have changed is the...

Dear Carol: Like many of your readers, my husband has dementia of the Alzheimer’s type, and I’m caring for him at home....

Becoming a family caregiver is often something that either happens very suddenly or slowly sneaks up on a person. When a loved...

Dear Carol: My 69-year-old father is overweight, sedentary, and he loves junk food. There’s no point in nagging him about his poor...

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

It was not unlike any other day, but on this particular afternoon, Dad was adamant. He was waiting for his medical degree...

Memory loss can be one of the first symptoms a person experiences with Alzheimer’s, and those living with Lewy body dementia may...