Elder Care ABC

Whether you are teaching your young daughter how to knit, or helping your aging mother balance her checkbook, how do you take charge without taking over? How many times have you found yourself “showing” someone how to do something by doing it for them? It’s human nature. But while it might make sense to show [...]

Statistics clearly point out the leaning towards an aging population and coping with elder care and loneliness will become a concern for many of us at some stage in our adult years. Possibly a phone call from a anxious relative or neighbor will force us to confront our parent’s changing condition and our own accountability [...]

Here’s an idea for living well on the caregiving front: don’t let the mundane get in the way of laughing and having fun on the journey. Yep, laugh, and have a sense of humor about it all. Really? Yes. How do I know this? Because the other day, in the midst of describing my disappearance [...]

I didn’t see them at first, not really.  I was too wrapped up in my own grief, trying to come to terms with the fact that my grandmother, matriarch of our family, was at the end of her life.  I couldn’t believe that this woman, a force of nature for much of my life, was [...]

Welcome to this week’s carnival! As I read each week’s carnival submissions, I see a common thread that unites us all.    We live in a world that promotes youth, anti-aging methods and surgery that may cure it all.  I have to wonder if old age doesn’t come as quite a surprise to some?   For [...]

There’s so much to love about working out and being physically fit. There’s so much to hate about those 24-hour fitness clubs with all those young, beautiful bodies, not to mention complicated machinery and triathlon-level workouts. No wonder Moms and Dads refuse to step inside the neighborhood gym. They can’t relate. According to International Health [...]

Preventing Pressure SoresElder health care vigilance from family members is the best way to prevent pressure sores.  Recently, two older friends of mine had aortic valve replacements. Mary just started her fourth week in a nursing home.  Lynn was home two weeks after her surgery.  What is the difference between these two women?  Mary developed [...]

Depression is a serious condition that is quite common in the elderly. With the proper intervention, depression can be treated and the quality of elderly depression, elderly assistancelife is improved. However, there are a lot of misconceptions about depression that stop people from getting the proper treatment. A lot of people think of depression as [...]