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5 Tips for Showing Compassion While Caring for Aging Parents
It can be frustrating caring for aging parents who refuse help. However, it’s important to approach the situation with…
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Caregiver Tips
How Employers Can Help Caregivers for a Win-Win
If American employers embraced the recommendations of a new Harvard Business School report, life could be a lot easier…
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Independent Living
Aging Alone: What Seniors Need to Know About Aging in Place
Studies have shown that the vast majority of senior adults would prefer to age in place in their homes,…
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Alzheimer’s & Dementia
How to Prepare Your Home for Someone With Alzheimer’s
It’s no secret that the majority of older adults want to live out their lives in their own homes.…
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Care Management
How to Find a Professional Caregiver for Your Parent
There is a point where caring for Mom or Dad is no longer possible for family members. Determining the…
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Alzheimer’s & Dementia
How to Communicate with a Loved One Living with Alzheimer’s
Communication is an exchange. We trade information, opinions, emotions, thoughts, and memories. When we communicate with someone who has…
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Health & Wellness
How to Effectively Communicate with Your Doctor
We’ve all been there. After waiting endlessly for a doctor’s appointment, your physician breezes in and out of the…
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Independent Living
How to Choose an Active Age-Restricted Community
The first time Mary Hickey, 53, and her husband, Joe, 59, looked at a home in Sun City Peachtree,…
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Care Management
3 Ways a Care Manager Can Help a Family Caregiver
“A person only ages once, so it’s a new experience for the family member who is serving as the…
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Health & Wellness
Resources for Your Next Doctor Appointment
Health care is a huge priority for Bethesda Health Group and Next Avenue — always, but especially right now.…
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Alzheimer’s & Dementia
How to Talk to Your Parents About Dementia
When you were a child, your mother and father explained difficult things to you and provided for your care.…
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Caregiver Tips
Caregiving for a Senior Loved One – What Do You Do When It Is Over?
After serving as the primary caregiver for a senior loved one—an intense commitment of emotion, energy, and love—you are…
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Health & Wellness
Medication Therapy Management: A Little-Known Way to Manage Your Meds
Carla* (name changed) is a 92-year-old woman with congestive heart failure, high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation, and a pacemaker.…
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