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
- The Funeral Home Meeting: 12 Funeral Service Questions to Consider
- 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
Is Laughter the Best Medicine?
“If you don’t learn how to laugh at troubles, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old.” –Edward W. Howe Everyone loves to laugh. In fact, we love laughing so much that there are entire industries built around it. Slapstick movies, sitcoms and comedians are all designed to provoke laughter. It’s no secret: laughing simply feels good. But does laughter have any lasting effects on our health? In a word, yes. The value of humor in...Read entire article »
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The Benefits of a Caregiver Support Group
You and your parent are in the unique position of doing something that has not been done before in the history of the world. Are you aware that your parent is among the first generation ever to live en masse into late life? In all previous generations, most people died before they reached later life. They died from disease, warfare, childbirth, famine, and other hardships. However, most people born into your parents’ generation have survived to become older adults....Read entire article »
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Talking to Your Elderly Parents: 6 Surefire Ways to Communicate Effectively
Effective communication is essential to every relationship, particularly so in a caregiving situation. Often it is not what you say, but how you say it that determines how your message is received. Here are some suggestions for improving your conversations with your elderly parents. 1. RESPECT your parents by treating them as your equals. Treat them as you wish them to treat you. Ask for, and value, their opinions. 2. LISTEN. Attentive listening requires participation, openness and receptivity. Listening is...Read entire article »
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