Picture this. It's 2 a.m. and everybody in the household is sleeping soundly, everybody, that is, except me, and thoughts about senior elder care race through my mind. I'm riddled with unanswered elder care questions. I worry about people I love. I feel bad about something I did or said. I haven't stepped foot outdoors…
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Paid for Family Caregiving? What a concept.
After my father died, my sister and I were left holding the bag as to what to do with his belongings, as well as having the responsibility of tying up loose ends. In addition to the caregiving hours we racked up before Dad's death, little did we know that managing the myriad details and documents…
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Forgetfulness It's not what you think
As an elder care advocate, I want to live in a world that never gives up on elderly people who are diagnosed and living with Alzheimer's disease. I also envision living long enough to meet thousands of people who have Alzheimer's and who have proven over and over that they are quite capable of a…
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We Don’t Choose Elder Care; Elder Care Chooses Us
As I began to outline my book, The Complete Eldercare Planner over thirty years ago, I wrote the following words in a journal I was keeping at the time -- we don't choose elder care; elder care chooses us. Today that to-the-point phrase has never been truer. I refer to elders as, "living answers." And…
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