Caregiver Tips
Health & Wellness
Finding Local Farm Fresh Produce: Your Guide to St. Louis Farmers Markets
Summertime in the Midwest means plenty of farm-fresh fruits and vegetables available at festive local farmers markets. But a…
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Caregiver Tips
A Doctor’s Appointment Checklist for Seniors
Doctor’s appointments are often stressful for senior adults, many of whom are managing multiple chronic illnesses and their associated…
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Time Management Tips for Senior Caregivers
If you have decided to become a caregiver for a senior adult, you will quickly discover that time is…
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How to Stay Positive as a Senior Caregiver
Each day, some 40 million Americans are helping senior loved ones with activities of daily living like preparing meals,…
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What Can You Do to Ease a Caregiver’s Burden?
When a friend or family member is knee-deep in caring for a loved one, a common gesture is to…
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Care Management
When Is It Time to Find Long-Term Care for a Spouse?
“I’m scared and worried,” wrote Dennis Abrams in a column in The Houston Chronicle in July 2017. Abrams’ husband,…
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The Personal Sacrifices Family Caregivers Make for Their Loved Ones
Unpaid family members and friends who care for loved ones want to provide that care, but they sacrifice their…
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Assisted Living
When You Are Shamed for Moving a Parent into a Senior Care Community
Beth came up to me, tears in her eyes. “My cousins came into town,” she lamented. Normally this would…
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Life Lessons from End-of-Life Experts
It seems odd to say, but people sometimes learn more about life when facing their own death or the…
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Care Management
Are You a Helicopter Child to Your Parents?
When psychologist Barry Jacobs saw that his aging mother’s mental faculties were weakening and confronted her about it, the…
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Alzheimer’s & Dementia
Ways to Talk With a Parent About Dementia
Michele Foss refers to it as The Great Bacon Incident. She had gotten a call at her Baltimore home…
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Caregiver Tips
When Family Members Disagree on a Senior Care Plan for Their Parent
It’s the discussion no one wants to have. Aging parents are showing signs of aging that indicate additional care…
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Four Things Not to Say to an Isolated Older Adult
When MaryKay Kubota’s husband died unexpectedly at 49, she felt isolated. It was as if the world kept going…
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