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…
The Emotions That Go With Caregiving
Caregiving is an emotional job. You forge connections, and your clients sometimes feel like more than clients. Not every emotion, however, can or will be positive in the process 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…
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…
Doctor holding an heart, cardiologist and cardiovascular diseases concept.
FOODS TO AVOID WHEN MONITORING YOUR CHOLESTEROL
The way we act, think, and talk about monitoring cholesterol has significantly changed over the years. Foods that were once considered bad for your cholesterol are now treated differently than…
Keeping The Flu Away
Did you know that seniors, and those who help care for them, are two of the highest-risk groups of people when it comes to the flu? For starters, older adults…
