Elder Care ABC

By Joy Loverde Developing a more balanced relationship between aging parents and adult caregivers is always a good idea. Besides, helping our aging parents to continuously create purpose in their life is a life-sustaining process, according to Dr. Roger Landry, a preventive medicine physician and president of Masterpiece Living (www.mymasterpieceliving.com). And when was the last [...]

by Janice Wallace Protecting your parent from financial elder abuse is an important parent care responsibility.  This type of abuse robs your parent of her money and her freedom because money equals choice when it comes to elder care services. Financial elder abuse is defined as a person taking an elder’s money or property for [...]

One resident I knew, Elizabeth, would have loved the piano. She came in every six weeks for respite care. She had early dementia. Often, she would appear at the top of the stairs stark naked, throw her arms up in the air and announce ‘Darlings – I’m here!’

The Alzheimer’s Society’s Home from Home report says that “people with dementia spend an average of two minutes in every six hours interacting with other people.” The solution’s simple, says care instructor Gill Kearsley. Every day, throughout Britain, elderly residents in care homes are waking, or being woken, to face a day of boredom and [...]

by Janice Wallace Macular degeneration threatens elder health care and quality of life.  It creates a hole in the middle of the field of vision.  Seniors lose the ability to read, drive a car and recognize faces.  Age related macular degeneration (AMD) is the top cause of blindness in seniors. AMD creates an elder health [...]

By Joy Loverde When times are tough, like they are now, sometimes well meaning caregivers of aging parents insist that their parents move in with them without full consideration of what can happen. The most serious stories include elder abuse and neglect, the fastest growing crime in America today. The arrangement of sharing one’s home [...]

Welcome to the September 16, 2009 edition of the EldercareABC Blog Carnival We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone … and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something. –  Sandra Day O’Connor Similarly, this carnival [...]

By Joy Loverde There are many advantages for our aging parents to look into the process of estate planning; yet according to the statistics, few people make the effort to put plans in place. There are several reasons why. For one thing, who wants to make decisions for what happens to us after we die? [...]