Why So Many Long-Married Couples Die Close Together
While death rarely brings pleasant feelings, from time to time we’ll see a story about death go viral on the Internet because it touches...
End-of-life
When One Parent Dies the Other Often Needs a Long-Term Care Plan
Long-term marriages generally evolve into a support system so efficient that even adult children hardly notice changes in their parents. If Dad’s hearing is...
“I Promised My Parents I’d Never Put Them in a Care Home”
Caregiving is a job that is full of ups and downs. Many of us take on this role out of love and concern, but...
Caregivers Need to Support One Another’s Unique Decisions
Normally, all is well in caregiver support groups. People help and comfort one another, offer advice based on what’s worked for them in a...
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...
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....
