Are you a caregiver? How is your caregiving journey going? Do you feel you have enough support? Are you connecting with other caregivers? Or are you still not sure what you need to do?
At Seniors Lifestyle Magazine, we have previously...
When you get busy helping your aging parents or other elderly loved ones, make sure you take the time to help your kids understand what’s going on and how you can do things together moving ahead.
Here are five key...
The family meeting took place and it wasn’t at all what any of us expected.
Dad’s cognitive deficiencies are far more then we had thought. He will not recover from the physical constraints of the stroke.
So the question to us...where...
What can we learn from caring for aging parents or loved ones? I believe there are four factors we need to understand so we can better interact with them. The four key challenges to caring for aging parents are:
1. Time....
If one is a geriatrician, a good part of one’s practice is focused on individuals either living with dementia or concerned about having symptoms that might be dementia. It is often a frightening prospect, at times more so for...
It’s getting late, like around 11 pm when you’re supposed to be either watching the news or already in bed with a book or listening to music and nearing sleep time.
The phone rings.
A parent. Or both. Just to see...
Caregiving means leaving behind the life you had and embarking on a totally new style of living. You are essentially putting your life on hold in order to be the primary caregiver of a loved one.
How do you deal...
In my geriatric practice one of the complaints of families is how often their loved one tells them the same thing over and over.
They use that symptom as evidence of cognitive decline – the inability to recall what was...
People make sure that their loved ones stay safe by getting them a personal emergency response system or a medical alert bracelet. These systems call emergency personnel at the touch of a button, making them a great choice for...
One of the biggest challenges your parent may face is the impending or actual loss of the ability to drive, or the loss of the driver's license.
Some elders have enough insight to realize that driving is becoming too stressful...
