How Much Should You Push to Get an Older Adult to Eat?
Dear Carol: My mom’s got dementia and has stomach-related issues, but even so, she needs to eat. I make her three nourishing meals a...
End-of-life
Hospice Care about Re-Focusing Priorities, Not Giving Up
Hospice is about refocusing goals My parents both spent their last months on hospice care, and I’ll forever be grateful. Dad’s dementia had made...
How to Break the News that Someone Has Died
Rachel Jones from the website ‘Seven Ponds: Embracing the end-of-life experience’ interviewed me for her article offering ‘Tips for sensitively sharing a loved one’s...
Reconciling Grief & Relief When the Loved One You Cared for Dies
When my mother died in a local nursing home, my “career” of visiting this exceptional facility nearly every day for almost 15 years ended....
