Caregivers Can’t Fix Aging, but We Can Listen and Validate Distress
Dear Carol: My mom’s blessed with relatively good health for someone in her early 80s. She has enough money to live nicely, if not...
Dear Carol: My mom’s blessed with relatively good health for someone in her early 80s. She has enough money to live nicely, if not...
This is a unique caregiver opportunity that includes bi-monthly live phone sessions with a geriatrician where you can discuss your caregiving concerns, bi-monthly live...
During the years I cared for multiple elders, I grew to dread the ringing of the telephone. It seemed most calls meant emergencies. One...
There are many options for the care of our aging parents, but most of them are costly. There was a stretch of time during...
Over the course of 15 years, five of my elderly loved ones lived, for various spans of time, in a nearby nursing home. I...
It’s difficult to pinpoint how many aging parents live with their adult children, but there is certainly a lot more interest in this type...
Dear Carol: My mother, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, repeats the same question multiple times an hour. I know that’s typical behavior with...
Moving to senior living is often a difficult transition for aging loved ones. Even elders who are on board with the decision to relocate...
Have you thought about what you’d want your obituary to say about you? I hadn’t until I was recently asked to write an article...
As parents age and need more assistance, most adult children do what they can to help. For many, the first step is a weekly...