Minding Our Elders

Minding Our Elders Blog

“We don’t want strangers taking care of Mom!” “We promised Dad he would never have to go to a nursing home!” “If...

Gift giving for older adults can feel complicated, but it needn’t be. KOSMOS Gifts offers legacy time capsules that intrigue me. The...

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

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

Dear Carol: My 69-year-old father is overweight, sedentary, and he loves junk food. There’s no point in nagging him about his poor...

I recently spoke with a caregiver named Ann who was struggling with how to adapt to life as a caregiver. For the...

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

A friend recently faced the task of letting her mother, who has mid-level dementia, know that the mother’s elderly brother had died....

Years ago, a journalist (we’ll call her Nancy) requested an interview with me to discuss common caregiving issues for an article she...

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