When To Hire Help For A Senior Parent: Who Decides?
When it comes to deciding when to hire professional help for an aging loved one, it is often the actual patient who is in denial about whether it is finally…
Caring for Those with Pseudobulbar Affect
If someone you love has PBA (PseudoBulbar Affect), you may have trouble finding information about the condition, and even more trouble finding information on how to be a good caretaker…
Activities of Daily Living
As your elderly loved ones age, you may be tasked with making difficult decisions, like whether it is time for them to require home care assistance. And if so, exactly…
Frontotemporal Dementia Symptoms – Elder Care
Frontotemporal Dementia, commonly referred to as FTD, affects areas of the brain that control personality, emotions, behavior, executive functioning, and speech. The most common symptoms of FTD include extreme changes…
Beautiful doctor and elderly female patient smile at one another
Health Advocates: Your Partner in Care
A health advocate can be a professional with a healthcare background, or could simply be a family friend who is willing to serve as a liaison on the behalf of…
Energy for Longevity
Among many things, your energy levels naturally decrease as you age. But the slide can be stalled. It is a matter of doing a few small things to prevent your…
The Rainbow Diet: Important for Seniors Too
The benefits of eating a range of colorful foods are many: it boosts immunity, improves heart health, and prevents cancer, to name a few. Have you wondered why each range…
Patient consulting a doctor in the hospital
Dementia is an Emotional Illness Too
Any mentally debilitating illness, such as dementia or Alzheimer’s, carries an emotional burden too, both for the patient and the caregiver. It can be upsetting to listen to your loved…
“The Talk”…
It’s Not Just For Your Teenagers Those of us known as the sandwich generation need to have ‘the talk’, but not just with our children. With our aging parents too.…
Be Good to Your Heart
Love is all around you, which is a reason to be good to your heart. Perhaps it motivates us to take better care of ourselves so that we can be…
