Caregiving

Happy 250th Independence Day from Minding Our Elders!

This is a special Independence Day for our country. Many of you will be planning picnics or grilling, and – special day...

Geriatric care management is a rapidly growing field in the elder care industry. As most caregivers know, researching and coordinating all the...

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

Dear Carol: My 67-year-old mother struggles to care for her 75-year-old husband with Alzheimer’s. In many ways, things are going pretty well,...

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Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home. For most of us, the feeling is less about how large or...

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

As we travel our own unique journeys, most of us find that certain phrases or concepts take on the status of truth...

Deciding whether to tell someone who is cognitively impaired that their spouse has died is a serious and often recurring struggle. Dementia...

If you are like most family caregivers, you probably made a promise to your parent(s) years ago that you would never place...