Elder Care ABC

By Bob Kohut Once upon a time few people reached the ripe old age of 100.  Fewer still maintained physical health and mental well being into their 90s.  But with better medical care and more attention to diet and exercise an astounding number of seniors are reaching both those milestones.  Boomers caring for the elderly [...]

Geriatric Care Management may be an ideal solution for anyone charged with the responsibility for ensuring their Senior loved ones are getting the care they need when they themselves cannot do it.  Either due to distance or time many people simply cannot get involved with ensuring their Senior family members are seeing doctors, taking medication, [...]

by Bob Kohut For many seniors, a community bingo game three times a week does little, if anything, to provide the essential ingredient they need – meaning.  The career is over; the children are raised; the trips have been taken; the books have been read; now what?  What’s next?  What reason do seniors have to [...]

by Bob Kohut I first learned of hospice care when an older neighbor of mine, who was like a father to me, chose to discontinue his agonizing treatment for liver cancer and go home to die.  This was in the late 1980’s and there were still a lot of people who couldn’t understand why he [...]

By Bob Kohut I was having a rare dinner out with one of my sons the other night when I couldn’t help overhearing a conversation going on between a very elderly woman and her adult son at the next table. The sum and substance of it all was that the woman kept talking about memories [...]

by Bob Kohut When most of us come in contact with an elderly senior who seems to be losing their memories and speaking and moving about more slowly than they used to, we often automatically assume that dementia is setting in.  Since most forms of dementia are considered untreatable, we do the best we can [...]

By Bob Kohut Awhile back I posted a story about my mother and a “memory wall” she created using old family photographs.  She used the wall as a means of rekindling experiences of days gone by.  I shared my initial skepticism in that post as well as my surprise at how much it seemed to [...]

by Bob Kohut It’s no secret that the population of the Western Industrialized World is aging and the pace will accelerate as the fabled baby boomer generation slides into old age.  Many adult children of baby boomers face the possibility of becoming members of the “sandwich” generation – those responsible not only for the care [...]