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What Is Hospice Care? End-of-life is one of the most vulnerable times for patients and their loved ones. The entire situation—including the decisions and emotions—can be overwhelming. Thankfully, there is a healthcare service dedicated to helping people in these very moments of crisis: hospice care. What is hospice care? Hospice care is specialty medical care… Read More
How to Have a Successful Nursing Home Visit Visiting a nursing home can be an emotional, overwhelming, yet rewarding experience. Nursing home residents can get lonely, especially during the holidays, and regular visits provide numerous mental and physical benefits. Whether visiting a loved one or volunteering during the holidays, you want to make the most… Read More
Managing Caregiver Guilt Caring for a loved one can be immensely rewarding, but it can also bring about feelings of guilt, especially when caregivers believe they are falling short of their own expectations or those of others. Coping with caregiver guilt is important for both the caregiver’s well-being and the quality of care they provide…. Read More
The Ultimate Social Influencer? Grandparents. The poet Odgen Nash joked, “When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.” We often think of grandparents spoiling their grandchildren, loading them up with sugar just in time to return them to their parents as hyperactivity sets in. But the truth is, grandparents play an important role… Read More
7 Helpful Tips for Helping Your Parents Downsize Are you taking on the insurmountable task of helping your parents downsize? As we age, we eventually need less space. But the task of moving your parents from a longtime family home (with years of stuff) to a retirement community, assisted living, or smaller home is time-consuming… Read More
New Alzheimer’s Drugs – What You Should Know Scientists have been working on a breakthrough to treat Alzheimer’s, and their decades of research may be coming to fruition. The Food and Drug Administrative recently approved Leqembi (lecanemab-irmb). The drug isn’t a cure, but studies show that it could slow cognitive decline for a period of… Read More
How Stepfamilies Can Navigate Eldercare Issues We all know The Brady Bunch, that perfectly blended family with six children (three girls, three boys), two parents, and a housekeeper. Did you ever wonder what happened when the kids grew up, the housekeeper left, and Mike and Carol Brady started needing eldercare? Caring for aging parents comes… Read More
Talk to Dad About Aging Well Father’s Day is a great time to touch base with your dad and thank him for the hard work, sacrifices, life lessons and other ways he helped in your upbringing. While your relationship may look different now from when you were a kid, dads and adult children can still… Read More
How Aging Life Care Managers Help Older Adults Shirley is a 68-year-old woman who has lived an independent and active life. She raised two children on her own after her husband passed away when they were young, and she has always taken pride in her ability to manage her own affairs. However, as Shirley has… Read More
We’ve all heard of the “empty-nest syndrome,” when parents experience sadness and loneliness after their children move out. Did you know there is an opposite experience as well? “Full-nest syndrome” occurs when multiple generations of a family live under the same roof. With 42 million people providing care for someone over 50 in America, many… Read More