Expert Column
Kay Paggi 
Eldercare Consultant
As a licensed professional counselor, certified gerontological counselor and certified geriatric care manager, Kay...read more
Articles In This Column
- A Checklist of Essential Legal Documents for Aging Parents: What You Need to Know Before It's Too Late
- Things You Need to Know About Your Parent's Finances Before It's Too Late: A Checklist
- The Dementias: Diagnosis, Treatment and Research
- Amazing Tales of Aging
- Activity Directors' Tips for Creating Meaningful Senior Activities
- A Caregiver's Guide to Alzheimer's Disease
- Activities for Alzheimer's and Dementia Patients
- Geriatric Care Manager, Kay Paggi, Makes Headlines in The Dallas Morning News
- Death by Hospital
- How to Choose a Senior Care Facility
- Just When You Thought There Was No One to Help...Part 1 of 2
- Just When You Thought There Was No One to Help...Part 2 of 2
- Guidelines for a More Successful Visit: Visiting Your Elderly Loved One
- Go Ahead, Laugh it Up
- Is Laughter the Best Medicine?
- The Benefits of a Caregiver Support Group
- Talking to Your Elderly Parents: 6 Surefire Ways to Communicate Effectively
Geriatric Care Solutions & Management
A Checklist of Essential Legal Documents for Aging Parents: What You Need to Know Before It's Too Late
Legal Information Elder law is a distinct specialty area of the law. Have end-of-life documents drawn by a professional elder law attorney to ensure that your wishes are followed, and have legal documents checked to be certain they are adequate for the laws in your parent's state. Following are descriptions of essential legal documents that your parent should have. If these are not in place, discuss the need for these with your mom or dad as soon as possible....Read entire article »
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Things You Need to Know About Your Parent's Finances Before It's Too Late: A Checklist
Managing your finances is an important part of caring for yourself—and your aging parents. Although many adult children find it difficult to ask aging parents about their finances, it is important to talk to your parents about the future. The following is a checklist of financial information you should ask your aging parents before it’s too late. Bank Accounts Checking Institution Address Phone Contact person Account # Name on account Names on signature card Bank Accounts: Savings Institution Address...Read entire article »
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The Dementias: Diagnosis, Treatment and Research
The Dementias: Diagnosis, Treatment and Research, 3rd edition, edited by Myron Weiner, MD, and Anne Lipton, MD, PhD, is very useful for professionals dealing with elders in later life. The chapters with practical, hands-on information are interspersed with clinical chapters that provide more in-depth explanations. While clinicians and other health professionals are the primary audience, the breadth of topics and the editors’ straightforward approach makes this book a helpful resource for everyone who has a friend or relative with...Read entire article »
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Amazing Tales of Aging
Life can be a continuous process of growth, and the potential for learning new things, engaging in new activities and cultivating new interests exists at all ages. The MacArthur foundation studied people in late life to find characteristics they share in common. The study found that one indicator of a person who will live into very late life is continued engagement with life. In other words, it’s better to be 70 years young than 40 years old. Here’s a...Read entire article »
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Activity Directors' Tips for Creating Meaningful Senior Activities
What do your typical daily activities include? Perhaps you go to work, talk to family and friends, exercise, go out to eat, attend worship, read or watch TV. There are probably lots more activities that you can add to that list. Now imagine yourself in a nursing home. Here the activities available to you may include Bingo, an afternoon tea party, trivia, or a bean bag toss. Wow. Is it any wonder that most residents in nursing homes are...Read entire article »
