Mental Health

Ways to Help Older Adults Stay Active and Engaged

As family caregivers, we strive to meet all our loved ones’ needs. We give medication reminders, cook meals, manage doctors’ appointments, and...

Most seniors are keen on staying in their homes as they age, but family caregivers often struggle to meet their loved ones’...

Dear Carol: I’m upset because my dad, age 84, is refusing a colonoscopy even though he’s had some blood in his stools....

Watching out for elders has always come naturally for me. I grew up close to my grandparents, and during my teenage years,...

“No one needs to die in pain.” That is what the social worker told me as I signed the papers that would...

Long-term caregiving can be isolating and lonely, which is why peer support is so vital to a caregiver’s mental, emotional, and physical...

Most of us who have cared for someone living with dementia of any type, whether that is Alzheimer’s (AD), Lewy body dementia...

Being a family caregiver doesn’t always stop at caring for our own aging parents. Our significant other’s mom and dad often look...

People living with dementia are the only ones who really understand what it’s like to live with their form of the disease,...

Part one of Sensitivity Training for Caregivers tells about the first segment of my training experience at a local nursing home. Reading...