Mental Health

Choosing Senior Housing and Care Based on Your Parent’s Needs

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

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

Dear Carol: My mom is on a waiting list for memory care and should be able to move in soon. I’m struggling...

A recent question brought back memories from my early days of caregiving. The member wrote, “My 81-year-old father still thinks he can...

Get used to it – the guilt, I mean. The incessant phone call thing was just one of the many games I...

There’s a great deal of anger in the world of family caregiving over siblings who don’t help care for their aging parents....

The responsibility of providing care for an aging or ill loved one is a monumental challenge in its own right. But when...

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

Dear Carol: Dad died two weeks ago at 89 years of age. Mom is 87 and has what they think is early-stage...

Years ago, I stumbled upon a video that remains vivid in my mind. In it, an elderly couple who had spent a...