Reducing Loneliness: How to Help Older Adults During the Holidays
While aging can bring wisdom and experience, there are inevitable losses that even the healthiest seniors face. Loved ones and friends fall ill and...
While aging can bring wisdom and experience, there are inevitable losses that even the healthiest seniors face. Loved ones and friends fall ill and...
Dear Carol: As Thanksgiving approaches, I’m struggling because my husband of 53 years can no longer reliably recognize who I am. After several years...
Dear Carol: Father’s Day is a tough time for me. My dad has Alzheimer’s and every year the struggle to connect with him gets...
This Father’s Day I’ll have fond memories of my dad, as will many caregivers and adult children. The juxtaposition of the past and present...
Dear Readers: Valentine’s Day is fast approaching. While it’s traditionally a day for couples to express their love for one another, let’s stretch the...
Whether or not it’s a conscious thought, many of us look at a new year as a time to make changes in our lives....
New Year thoughts: Because your loved one’s situation hasn’t changed, you might think that nothing can improve your own situation. But if you are...
It’s human to want a fresh start. Even though I know that December 31 of one year is rarely that different from January 1...
How long has it been since you’ve distanced yourself from caregiving long enough to decide what is good for you? When was the last...
The decisions that we caregivers of elderly loved ones must make during the Christmas holidays are fraught with opportunities to make mistakes in judgment....