Mom’s wishes My Mom said she didn’t want us, her four children and husband, to tell her friends that she was on hospice care. She didn’t want them worrying or fussing over her. We asked her what she would like us to do for her funeral. She said, “Don’t go to any trouble, just bury [...]

Dealing with the Emotions of the Family Caregiver Expecting to care for your elderly loved ones without hitting bumps in the road is unrealistic and even the most patient and angelic of us will at some time find that we are having to deal with personal anger issues. In the extreme case this results in [...]

30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans “We are on the verge of losing an irreplaceable natural resource. The inexorable process of human aging is depriving us of one of the most extraordinary groups of human beings that has ever lived: America’s older generation. The last veteran of World War [...]

Alzheimer’s Disease and Antipsychotic Drugs – A Controversial and Difficult Issue for Caregivers The first step in dealing with some of the most severely challenging behavior problems that may accompany Alzheimer’s or other dementias is to get a medical evaluation to be sure that other health issues are not causing or contributing to the problem. [...]

Family Caregivers Can Find Relief from Stress If you’re like a lot of family caregivers you might be feeling stressed, overworked, overscheduled, exhausted and lonely.  You might feel like you’re all alone, doing a job that’s just too big, with no one cheering you on.  You’re probably getting a lot of second-guessing but not much [...]

Scamming The Elderly There are some very good reasons why the elderly are ripe pickings for scam artists, making them ideal targets for fraud.  Seniors are most likely to have retirement funds in some sort of nest egg and they usually have very good credit ratings.  They were raised in an era where they were [...]