The Emotional Toll of Moving Your Elderly Parent to Senior Living
Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home. For most of us, the feeling is less about how large or fancy a...
Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home. For most of us, the feeling is less about how large or fancy a...
………….. Sex and death: It’s odd that these two topics of conversation should bring so much anxiety to parents and children. One addresses the...
There’s a great deal of anger in the world of family caregiving over siblings who don’t help care for their aging parents. Very often,...
Dear Carol: My parents and in-laws all lived to be very old, with years of physical and cognitive decline. I willingly cared for them...
For some lucky families, having all adult siblings gather around and plan how to take care of Mom and Dad as their parents’ health...
Years ago, I stumbled upon a video that remains vivid in my mind. In it, an elderly couple who had spent a lifetime devoted...
Caregiving is a job that is full of ups and downs. Many of us take on this role out of love and concern, but...
When it comes to caring for the elderly, hygiene issues are surprisingly common. Determining why their bathing habits have changed is the best way...
Deciding whether to tell someone who is cognitively impaired that their spouse has died is a serious and often recurring struggle. Dementia and death...
Dear Carol: Like many of your readers, my husband has dementia of the Alzheimer’s type, and I’m caring for him at home. We’ve always...