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Medicare Launches Brand-new Web Pages Dedicated to Helping Family Caregivers
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) recently launched a new addition to their Web site; the Ask Medicare pages are designed to help family caregivers navigate CMS and also find crucial resources outside ... Read entire article »
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Homecare: 7 Surefire Ways to Create a Symbiotic Relationship
Last week I received a call from a family in a crisis. Their elderly aunt, who is 96 years old, had recently become more ill and physically frail. The family caregivers were fighting over the fact that more hel... 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 in... Read entire article »
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Caregiver Burnout: How to Deal With It & Avoid It
From an evolutionary standpoint, our bodies are made for short bursts of stress—like running away from dangerous situations, such as a forest fire. But today’s world is one of constant low-level str... Read entire article »
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Baby Boomer Women Sandwiched Between Caring for Parents & Children
I troll the Internet—a lot—as it is part of my job to find out what other people are saying about health and long-term care topics. I have found some weird things. I have also found some very profou... Read entire article »
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Finding Respite
Adult Day Care Explained: What It Is, What to Expect & How to Pay for It
What It Is
Adult day care provides a safe and caring setting for adults within a social model program. Programs are structured and designed, often through the development of a personal care plan, to cover the d... Read entire article »
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Adult Day Care: How to Find & Assess
Gilbert Guide provides listings of adult day care throughout the country—along with advice for finding the adult care programs that will best suit individual needs. It is important that after reading our ... Read entire article »
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Adult Day Health Care Explained: What It Is, What to Expect & How to Pay for It
What It Is
Like adult day care, adult day health care provides a safe, caring setting for adults who require supervision or care during the day. Adult day health programs are designed for individuals who requir... Read entire article »
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Respite Care: What It Is & Where to Get It
Respite care is the temporary relief provided to a caregiver when someone else assumes his or her role as caregiver. Respite can last anywhere from a few hours to several weeks or even months. Respite care is p... Read entire article »
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Talking About the Future with Your Parents
How to Communicate with Elderly Parents
When you communicate with your elderly parents, do you ever think, "Maybe we're just not speaking the same language?" Or, "Why don't my senior parents understand? I only want to help, but there's just no talkin... Read entire article »
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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 check... Read entire article »
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Funeral Planning: Having the Talk with Your Loved One
Funeral planning isn't an easy thing to talk about for most people, and certainly not with the people you love. After all, imagine planning your funeral. But sooner or later, everyone should have "the talk." Th... Read entire article »
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How to Talk to Parents About the Future
Why is it so hard to talk to our elderly parents about getting older, needing help, or planning for being dependent? Sometimes the parents just can’t face it. Sometimes they are in denial about their own ... Read entire article »
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Seniors: When is it Time to "Let Go" of Control?
There comes a point for many aging
seniors when they must defer control to a person they trust to make their
decisions for them. While it may seem a long ways away, the ideal time to
designate that person is wh... 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 som... Read entire article »
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Support with Senior Driving Issues
What Is...Paratransit?
Paratransit is a service that provides transport, usually in vans or buses, to seniors and the disabled. There are no fixed routes or schedules. Paratransit providers are operated by public agencies, community ... Read entire article »
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Tips for Adult Children on How to Deal with Senior Driving Issues
Driving safely requires a number of cognitive and physical skills. Even seniors who have impeccable driving records can encounter situations that lead to these skills being impaired. Read on for issues to consi... Read entire article »
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Senior Driving: When Are You Too Old to Drive?
“Mom, Dad—maybe it’s time you stopped driving.” That’s probably one phrase no adult child ever wants to utter. We live in a driving culture—from the first Tin Lizzie to the ... Read entire article »
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Inspirational Memoirs
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 lat... Read entire article »
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A Tale of Hoarding: Honor Thy Father & Mother
Several months ago, I met with a hoarder; I’ll call him Dr. F. An eighty-nine-year-old retired physician, he lives alone in a five-bedroom house, in which every room is literally filled with “stuff.... Read entire article »
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A Life that Matters
I have decided to make a former client my role model. I met him half a dozen years ago, when he was in his early eighties and moving to a retirement community. As we began planning his move, he said, “I l... Read entire article »
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Storyzon: Your Life Story Jumps Off the Page
Storytelling is a centuries-old craft that gives us colorful glimpses into history. But what about the personal stories of our own history? Maybe the elderly just aren’t encouraged enough to tell their st... Read entire article »
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Reunions, Reminiscence & Reflection: Stories to Tell
Last week I gazed at photos from my fortieth high school reunion. Some people looked exactly the same, but most had changed. Some were thinner, some were heavier, many were gray-haired. I spent the most time lo... Read entire article »
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Just When You Thought There Was No One to Help...Part 1 of 2
I first met Hank* 4 months after his heart attack. He was in his mid-seventies, living in a horrible nursing home: the kind with a foul smell, where two beds crowd one small room, and there are patients crying ... Read entire article »
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