By Kaye Swain Are you caring for an elderly parent at home and toying with the idea of remodeling your home for any one of a variety of reasons, including adding aging in place options? Is the whole thought of dealing with a remodel scaring you? Especially when you are juggling that with caregiving responsibilities?…
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Are You Looking for Simple Aging in Place Options For Elderly Parents?
By Kaye Swain Door handles. Simple things. You wouldn't think they'd be that important, would you? Unless your elderly mom has limited range of motion in her hands due to arthritis or in her arm due to taking a tumble or just in general due to growing weaker as she ages. My family has dealt…
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Helping Our Elderly Parents With Benefits CheckUp
By Kaye Swain One of the vital things many of us do for and with our elderly parents is help them with the various benefits that come with the aging process. Most of us tend to think of social security and Medicare and stop there. For many elderly, though, there may be other benefits to…
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Proactively Planning Ahead for Our Dear Seniors
By Kaye Swain My senior mom is doing fairly well. She's definitely not as active as she was about four years ago. Two surgeries coupled with some ongoing health issues have definitely slowed her down a bit. We're both quite excited, though, that she is having fewer allergy symptoms here in the evergreen and lovely…
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Aging in Place Options Part 2
By Kaye Swain I wrote about bathroom "aging in place options" in Part 1. Today I wanted to tackle some other parts of the house -inside and out. Wheelchair Accessible My mom is still able to walk around so we are not in need of this right now. But when my dad was using a…
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Aging in Place Options Part 1
By Kaye Swain Are you overseeing your elderly parent who is still living in their own home? Or are you considering having them move in with you? Either way, good aging in place options are an important part of the equation. What is aging in place and what would those options be? The Centers for…
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Recap of Kaye Swain's Posts from 2013
Kaye Swain writes for EldercareABC each month, and we wanted to share a recap of her excellent posts from 2013. Here they are in case you missed any or simply wanted to revisit them again. Helping Your Elderly Parent Use a New Remote Control In this post, Kaye shared her wisdom and experience on finding…
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2 Easy Travel Tips for Long Trips With Elderly Seniors
Are you planning on any traveling with your elderly parents this year - for holiday visits with long distance family members or perhaps just to have a fun trip out to see sights and enjoy lovely scenery? My senior mom and I just returned from a 7 hour drive to visit some of her great-grandkids.…
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Helping Your Elderly Parent Use a New Remote Control
By Kaye Swain Caring for our elderly parents brings many challenges, doesn't it! Some are huge - often health related. Some are tiny. All can be another source of irritation for a beloved senior who is already feeling frustrated over all the changes aging is wreaking in their life. While we can't always fix the…
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Househunting Challenges When Elderly Parents Live With You
by Kaye Swain Moving is challenging, isn't it! And if you have a senior parent living with you, that can definitely add some extra challenges to the process. The last time my mom and I moved, our priorities were: A bedroom, bathroom with a shower or a safe low tub, and laundry room on the…
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