- Alzheimer’s Care
- Care Facility Evaluation Checklists
- Communicating with Loved Ones
- Downsizing Your Home
- Essential Documents
- Home Modification
- Hospitalization
- Paying for Care
- Respite
- Tips for Easy Moving
- Weighing your Housing Options
- Adult Day Services
- Aging in Place
- Caregiver Burnout
- Caregiver Support
- Dealing with Grief & Guilt
- Geriatric Care Managers: How They Can Help
- Get Organized: Tools for Caregiving
- Handling Dementia Behaviors
- Senior Driving Issues
- Advanced Directives
- Dying with Dignity
- Hospice & Palliative Care: The Difference
- Injection How-to’s
- Living Wills
- Medicare & Hospice
- Pain Management
- Powers of Attorney
- Terminal Illness
- Nursing Homes
- Assisted Living & Alzheimer’s Care Communities
- Adult Day Care Services
- Senior Moving Solutions
- Visiting Your Loved One
- Retirement & Life Care Communities
- LGBT Senior Housing
Before Hospital Discharge—Evaluating Your Homecare Needs
If you are confined to bed, your hospital team (nurse or discharge planner) will assess your ability to move about and position yourself for maximum comfort and to prevent skin breakdown. They will decide whether you need a trapeze to help raise yourself in bed and will examine your ability to transfer in and out of bed, either to a wheelchair or to an ordinary chair. Walking If you are able to be up, your hospital team will evaluate your...Read the rest of this article »
Advocate 101 for Family Caregivers: When your Loved One is Hospitalized
As a family caregiver, short-term hospitalization of a loved one can be a difficult situation whether he or she is living in a long-term care facility or at home. As the family caregiver, the change can prove challenging at points, especially as hospitalization normally points to an unstable medical condition or an acute condition. Here are a few pointers for how to negotiate the situation. The most important issue to keep in mind is that you have most of the...Read the rest of this article »
