Caregiving

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Minimizing Grief for a Surviving Spouse with Dementia

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

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Living with Elderly Parents: Do You Regret the Decision?

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

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Siblings Who Care More About Their Inheritance Than Mom and Dad’s Care

“We don’t want strangers taking care of Mom!” “We promised Dad he would never have to go to a nursing home!” “If...

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Humor Can Protect Caregivers’ Hearts from Their Deepest Sorrows

One of the positive parts of being a family caregiver is the opportunity for emotional growth. We can develop increased compassion, patience,...

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Consider Palliative Care for Parent with Multiple Health Challenges

Dear Carol: I want so badly to help my mom have as good a life as possible during her last years, yet...

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Ways to Help Older Adults Stay Active and Engaged

As family caregivers, we strive to meet all our loved ones’ needs. We give medication reminders, cook meals, manage doctors’ appointments, and...

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Wishing you a meaningful Memorial Day

On this Memorial Day, we honor those we’ve lost. Memorial Day also symbolizes the beginning of summer, so I’m hoping you have...

The Stages of Alzheimer’s Disease (the 7 Stage Model)

The only certainty when diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease is that a senior’s condition will progressively worsen. The national Alzheimer’s Association has developed...

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Hospice Care: Help During the End Stages of Life

“No one needs to die in pain.” That is what the social worker told me as I signed the papers that would...

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Music Therapy Can Increase Quality of Life for Those in Hospice

For many, music from certain eras can bring back memories of better times. For others, music soothes anxiety or gets them pumped...

Caregiving

Minimizing Grief for a Surviving Spouse with Dementia

Living with Elderly Parents: Do You Regret the Decision?

Siblings Who Care More About Their Inheritance Than Mom and Dad’s Care

Humor Can Protect Caregivers’ Hearts from Their Deepest Sorrows

Consider Palliative Care for Parent with Multiple Health Challenges

Ways to Help Older Adults Stay Active and Engaged

Wishing you a meaningful Memorial Day

The Stages of Alzheimer’s Disease (the 7 Stage Model)

Hospice Care: Help During the End Stages of Life

Music Therapy Can Increase Quality of Life for Those in Hospice

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Egosan Incontinence: Discover the Difference

Memoryboard: Designed by caregivers to help families stay connected

Seneca Sense Home: Incontinence Care Made Easy

Free Caregiver Training provided by Geriatrician Leslie Kernisan, MD

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