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Older Adults Have Different Criteria When Deciding How to Approach Cancer

Dear Carol: My Dad was diagnosed with non-aggressive prostate cancer. In the past, he’s been proactive about his health, but now he’s...

Caring for a vulnerable person is daunting. We have to make decisions for them that are often a matter of quality of...

Deciding whether to tell someone who is cognitively impaired that their spouse has died is a serious and often recurring struggle. Dementia...

Dear Carol: After decades together, my wife no longer recognizes me. She’s been living with Alzheimer’s for nearly ten years, so this is...

If you are like most family caregivers, you probably made a promise to your parent(s) years ago that you would never place...

Becoming a family caregiver is often something that either happens very suddenly or slowly sneaks up on a person. When a loved...

The truth, as they see it, is still the truth in their eyes. Delusions, hallucinations, agitation, aggression, and depression are all part...

One of the positive parts of being a family caregiver is the opportunity for emotional growth. We can develop increased compassion, patience,...

Dementia can cause people to say and do some pretty odd things. Family caregivers may be caught off guard at first, but...

As a columnist for a newspaper on the High Plains, I often have readers write me that they are begging their parents...