With age comes a list of challenges: driving and transportation, mobility and safety, food and nutrition, prescription medication, bathing and dressing, managing medical care and keeping elders active. Find information to help your aging parent function independently while retaining quality of life.
Disaster Preparedness: Make Sure You & Your Aging Parents Are Ready Whether you live in an area where the prevalent natural disasters are earthquakes, hurricanes, wildfires or tornadoes, there are some things you can do to prepare yourself and your elderly parents for “the big one.”
10 Steps to Increase Your Parent’s Mental Agility and Memory Dementia is not necessarily a part of growing old. Your agng and elderly parents' brain can continue to function normally -- with the right stimulation.
How to Buy a Hearing Aid With so many types and hundreds of brands to choose from, seniors are often overwhelmed when buying a hearing aid. This guide will help.
Ten Reasons Why Your Parent May Not Be Eating Properly...and What To Do About It Here are reasons why seniors sometimes don’t eat properly, and some suggestions for how you can overcome this challenge.
Alcoholism and Elders: Watch for the Signs A caregiver's personal story of a loved one and his struggle with alcoholism.
My still independent mother is being treated with Aricept for early Alzheimer’s and Paxil for mild depression. I thought I heard somewhere that those two drugs shouldn’t be combined, but I forget why. Since there are so many anti-depressants available, why gamble with one that might reduce the effectiveness of the dementia medication?
How can I get my elderly father to stop eating everything? His doctor isn’t helping me! I had the same problem with my father. I fed him well and kept all healthy snacks available, but he'd say he was starving to death all the time.
My mother is having a hard time getting in and out of the tub. How can we all feel more secure and allow her to have independence? Bath chairs and grab bars can help your elderly loved one bath independently. Read full answer.
Each Rascal scooter is an engineering masterpiece that is carefully designed to provide comfort and reliability.
by Jill R.E. Yesko and Ruth E. Thaler-Carter
Like the title says, this book covers every aspect of caring for your aging parents. And it is completely free, from Lifebrige Health.
by Susan Berg
In light of recent research, activities should take on a whole new dimension in long-term care. Activities can no longer be thought of as leisure time fillers, but rather, as opportunities to provide mental stimulation. If done thoughtfully, activities can help those with Alzheimer s disease hold on to their remaining cognitive skills longer and enhance mood.
Advice on how to deal with live-in mother
Stressed to the limit.
Needing to vent
dementia or alzheimers?
Insurance: Are Seniors Being Duped into Buying Policies They Don’t Need?
The disease is not only a memory disease. It initially manifests with a marked memory failure. However, learning and higher brain functions are also affected. Read Dr. Grimaldi's full answer.
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