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5 min read 2022-05-20 13:27:00

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 confusing choices. How do we decide

2 min read 2022-05-18 18:42:33

The following article, Charges Dropped for Mentally Ill Thug Who Battered Elderly Veteran on Video in Nursing Home, was first published on Big League

5 min read 2022-05-16 13:01:00

Photo credit D Mason Watching a loved one move through the stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD) can be one of life's toughest and most heartbreaking

5 min read 2022-05-12 13:01:00

Photo credit Georg Arthur Pflueger One sign of the aging brain is repeating things more often, especially stories and questions. There are reasons

4 min read 2022-05-08 13:01:00

Photo credit Daniel von Appen Dear Carol: My 86-year-old dad fell and broke his arm. After two nights in the hospital, he was sent to rehab, but the

4 min read 2022-05-08 13:01:00

Photo credit Daniel von Appen Dear Carol: My 86-year-old dad fell and broke his arm. After two nights in the hospital, he was sent to rehab, but the

4 min read 2022-05-05 17:34:00

Caregiving can creep into your life or crash down with a bang, but either way, if we aren’t thinking ahead, we can find that our other

4 min read 2022-05-04 13:01:00

Photo credit Tuva Mathilde Loland You watch your once mentally sharp loved one decline before your eyes. Their uncontrollable behaviors, mood swings,

4 min read 2022-05-03 13:00:00

For most of us, our parents are just there — seemingly invincible as we grow up. Once we leave home, we’re on a mission to move into our own

5 min read 2022-04-28 13:01:00

Photo credit Armin Lofti (Note to readers: I apologize. There was a bad link in this post when it went out in the newsletter so I'm reposting this.

5 min read 2022-04-26 13:01:00

Photo credit Armin Lofti People cite numerous reasons for why they hate visiting nursing homes. Some can’t stand funky smells, others find the

4 min read 2022-04-25 13:01:00

According to the Lewy Body Dementia Association (LBDA), Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) is a progressive brain disease. They say that it also is the second

5 min read 2022-04-18 13:01:00

Photo credit Abigail Keenan Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home. For most of us, the feeling is less about how large or fancy a

5 min read 2022-04-15 13:01:00

Photo credit Abigail Keenan There’s a great deal of anger in the world of family caregiving over siblings who don’t help care for their aging

4 min read 2022-04-14 13:01:00

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