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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
When Is It Time to Choose Respite Care?
A few months ago, you accepted a new job which involves being on duty or on call 24/7. You…
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Assisted Living
Assisted Living and Safety Considerations for Seniors with Parkinson’s Disease
According to Lea Ann Coates, Residency Counselor at Bethesda Hawthorne Place, many of the requirements for residents are the…
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Alzheimer’s & Dementia
How to Plan for the Future with a Loved One with Dementia
Though medical researchers are developing tests to detect dementia earlier, today it may take years for the symptoms to…
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Health & Wellness
Could We See More Patients Receive “Social Prescriptions?”
The practice of prescribing social activities, or “social prescriptions,” as an alternative or complement to medication for a variety…
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Rehab & Therapy
Choosing the Right Short-Stay Rehab Community for Your Senior Loved One
A short-stay rehab and therapy community is probably the last place your senior loved one wants to go to…
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Caregiver Tips
How to Prepare a Home for a Senior Care Professional
The time has come for your senior loved one to begin receiving professional in-home care services. Whether it is…
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Caregiver Tips
How Social Robots Help Seniors Help Themselves
Designers of social and assistive robots clearly have figured out how to make their creations lovable, including giving them…
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Care Management
7 Ways a Care Manager Will Simplify Your Life
The term “Golden Years” was coined by an advertising agency in 1959 in an ad for a retirement community.…
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Care Management
How To Find In-Home Care for Your Senior Loved One
Despite the loss of some physical and or cognitive abilities, most older adults want to remain in their home…
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Caregiver Tips
How to Prepare Senior Loved Ones for Severe Weather and Emergencies
Floods, tornados, forest fires and hurricanes are equal-opportunity disasters that strike young and old alike. Or are they? Not…
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Senior Living
Considering a Skilled Nursing Home Community?
If, as a caregiver or family member, you have been wondering if it is time for your loved one…
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Caregiver Tips
Can A Caregiver Be Too Devoted?
Stacey’s parents had a storybook romance. Married for over 60 years, her father still called her mother “sweetheart.” Stacey’s…
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