Housing

Should Your Elderly Loved One Move in With You?

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,...

For some lucky families, having all adult siblings gather around and plan how to take care of Mom and Dad as their...

People want to stay in their own homes. You hear it and read about it all the time. And there’s some merit...

Caregiving is a job that is full of ups and downs. Many of us take on this role out of love and...