By Kaye Swain Last month, I wrote about being proactively prepared for extreme weather issues and possible outages, whether due to broken heaters and air conditioners or due to power outages from major storms. Of course, those are not the only weather issues many of us caregivers deal with when caring for our aging parents,…
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Extreme Weather Tips for Eldercaregivers
By Kaye Swain Weather is in the news! On our TVs, in our radios, and on our phones as we check on loved ones during nasty storms. This is especially true for those of us caring for our aging parents. It seems like just yesterday we were following up on ice and snow storms and…
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5 Scientifically-Backed Sleep Truths for the Over 50s
By Helen [caption id="attachment_7635" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo credit MARCZERO1980[/caption] You might be tempted to assume that poor sleep is a reality of reaching old age. However, most up-to-date sleep research indicates the elderly might not be sleeping so bad after all. Encouraged by these findings we set out to find more positives about sleep after…
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Slow, Steady, But Keep On Moving – A Great Way To Deal With The Aging Process
My senior mom and I often laugh at the memory of the plans we used to talk about when we reached retirement age. We each thought we'd get so much done then. We'd finish projects we didn't have time to do while she was working or I was raising kids. Now that she is in…
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Oral History: Remembering Yesterday for a Better Tomorrow
Tips for a Family Oral History Project at Home Sarah Jennings has been a caregiver her whole life and involved in the Veterans History Project for the Library of Congress since 2004. She currently writes on behalf of Brookdale assisted living. Recently, at the funeral of the grandfather of a friend, I chatted with some…
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6 Tips To Remove Some of the Stress From A Stress Test
By Kaye Swain Stress tests! Just thinking about taking one can cause our senior parents to "stress out" over what is coming. That definitely happened to my senior mom. But the appointment was scheduled (way too early in the morning, she thought - another stress), the list of medications she couldn't take before the test…
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Moving a Reluctant Parent – Part 12
Blog by Joy Loverde So you know by now if you’re up to date on my blogs regarding the saga of my Aunt and her reluctance to move out of the family home (Parts One through Eleven) that there has recently been a shift in the action. Keeping the trust level high these past few…
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Some Tips To Make Holiday Travel With Aging Parents Easier
By Kaye Swain Traveling for the holidays can be loads of fun. It can also be loads of extra work! And for those of us traveling with elderly parents, it can full of loads of extra challenges. My senior mom and I just returned from visiting several of her great-grandchildren. It was a trip she'd…
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Moving a Reluctant Parent – Part 11
By Joy Loverde If you’re up to speed on my “Moving a Reluctant Parent” (blogs One through Ten), then you’re familiar with the ongoing saga of moving my Aunt out of her house. You also know that she has let it be known every which way that she is not moving out of her house…
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Are you on the hook for Mom’s nursing-home bill?
Blog by Joy Loverde Background: A judge ruled May 7, 2012 that a Pennsylvania nursing home could collect an unpaid bill of $92,943 from the son of a patient who received care from September 2007 through March 2008. Everyone knows that parents have an obligation to support their children. But, did you know that many…
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