Housing

Is Your Parent Safe in his Assisted Living or Nursing Home?

Safety is one of several reasons people decide that elders with chronic health problems are better off in assisted living or nursing...

As our population ages and more of our national focus is on senior care, we can find ourselves in a muddle over...

When an elderly parent transitions from their home to assisted living, independent living, a nursing home or a relative’s home, it can...

Decades ago, it was fairly common to have grandparents living with family and it often worked well. It did for my family....

In the days before nursing homes became so highly regulated, many facilities used medications to sedate patients. Elders who were cooperative and...

Note: This is an older article that’s still valid, so I’m running it. However, dementia experts keep learning, and the thinking now...

Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home. For most of us, the feeling is less about how large or...

Dear Carol: As Thanksgiving approaches, I’m struggling because my husband of 53 years can no longer reliably recognize who I am. After...

“Mom! Where do all these packages keep coming from?!” “Dad, what are all these new charges on your credit card?” As our...

Hiring in-home care for my elderly neighbor, Joe, was quite an ordeal. The company we chose and their professional caregivers were great,...