Minding Our Elders

Minding Our Elders Blog

As parents age and need more assistance, most adult children do what they can to help. For many, the first step is...

Each of our aging parents is unique. Some people age so well that they need little help until they are well into...

Guilt is one emotion that every family caregiver will experience at some point during their journey. When you take on responsibility for...

A frequent problem expressed among family caregivers is that their aging loved ones aren’t honest with their doctors. At home, they may...

Long-term marriages generally evolve into a support system so efficient that even adult children hardly notice changes in their parents. If Dad’s...

At some point during your caregiving journey, you may find yourself in a rut. The awareness may come with a birthday, a...

Dear Carol: Do people with dementia deny their disease because of the stigma, or do they just not know they have it?...

When my mother died in a local nursing home, my “career” of visiting this exceptional facility nearly every day for almost 15...

They say hindsight is 20/20. But things from the past that may seem “clear” to you now can still be distorted by...

In the expected course of treatment, people are hospitalized because they are ill. Then, barring a terminal condition, they are released because...