8 Ways To Help Care For Your Elderly Parents Today, improvements in living standards and advances in medical care have given us increased life expectancy and longer life-spans, now many people are living well into their eighties and nineties. This results in a large proportion of middle-aged people having to care for their elderly parents. [...]
Dementia – Done Right Dementia is a really challenging disease for family caregivers for two quite different reasons. One, it is infinitely variable, even in the same person. Two, this is your family member being quite a different person from the one you knew before. Most disease doesn’t do that. Heart disease doesn’t radically change [...]
“How to Protect Your Aging Parent from Elder Abuse” Elder abuse can happen to any older adult in any situation. Â It is both under-recognized and under-reported. It’s estimated that 1 in 5 cases go unreported. Â Financial abuse alone costs our seniors $2.6 billion each year! Â (Statistics are from a MetLife study, see link at bottom [...]
Present Moment Dementia Imagine that your child had appendicitis. Could you imagine a family conversation about whether or not you’d do the operation on the kitchen table? I hope not. Yet, families often get caught in a kind of equivalent around a parent with dementia. What shall we do? How can we get our parent [...]
Care Giving Secrets – Ways to Encourage Clients and Prevent Caregiver Burnout “The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ~Albert Einstein The Heart of Caregiving is basically, part of the important discipline of nursing; caring in a loving and professional way. The principles [...]
