Caregiver stress

Caregiving During the Holidays: Have a Realistic, Positive Approach

…Each year after Thanksgiving, I would make my rounds, decorating each elder’s apartment or nursing home room, planning how we would split...

In the days before nursing homes became so highly regulated, many facilities used medications to sedate patients. Elders who were cooperative and...

Note: This is an older article that’s still valid, so I’m running it. However, dementia experts keep learning, and the thinking now...

Thank you Lonna Whiting of Lonna.co and Being Patient for featuring me in this beautifully written article. Good information from others as...

Hiring in-home care for my elderly neighbor, Joe, was quite an ordeal. The company we chose and their professional caregivers were great,...

There’s a great deal of anger in the world of family caregiving over siblings who don’t help care for their aging parents....

The responsibility of providing care for an aging or ill loved one is a monumental challenge in its own right. But when...

For some lucky families, having all adult siblings gather around and plan how to take care of Mom and Dad as their...

Years ago, I stumbled upon a video that remains vivid in my mind. In it, an elderly couple who had spent a...

People want to stay in their own homes. You hear it and read about it all the time. And there’s some merit...