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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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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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Independent Living
Maintaining Long-Term Friendships After a Move
When 57-year-old Brenda Thompson, a communications consultant, transplanted from Austin, Texas to Los Angeles after marrying her partner in…
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Alzheimer’s & Dementia
Transitioning Your Loved One Into Memory Care
You and your family have done your best, but dementia is taking your Mother’s cognitive abilities. Many of the…
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Caregiver Tips
How Family Caregivers Manage Career and Elder Care
With the number of working Americans caring for an aging parent growing, you might expect that companies would be…
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