Housing

A Step-by-Step Guide to Navigating the Senior Housing Maze
With an expanding array of senior living options available to the aging U.S. population, finding the right fit for an aging family member can be daunting.

Who’s Telling the Truth: The Alzheimer’s Patient or the Nurse?
People with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease often get paranoid about people taking things. And there’s a reason for it. Sometimes, people are stealing from them. And sometimes they’re not.

Nursing Homes: Perceptions and Realities
Separating what may be true and what may be not true when an aging parent needs skilled medical care at a nursing home.

Elders and Sex: Who Gets to Decide What is Proper?
With people living longer in assisted living, more romances among elders are blossuming. Just what does the home allow these folks to do?

Is It Right to Convince Mom and Dad to Move Close to the Kids?
What happens when Mom and Dad live far away from their children, and then one of the elders gets ill or one dies and the other is left alone? Should they move closer to family? The decision is never easy.

I live 3,000 miles away from my father and he needs live-in help, but I’m worried about elder abuse since I can’t be there to monitor the caregivers. What can I do to protect my father and feel more comfortable with hiring caregivers?
I would hire a geriatric care manager who lives very close to your father, and can be your onging eyes and ears in your absence.

How can I get my elderly parents to consent to move to Assisted Living?
Convincing elders to move from the comfort of the home they've known for many years and downsize into an assisted living situation can be one of the toughest hurdles for families to accomplish. If you haven't discussed it nor made plans for the transition, here are some things you should do. Read Jacqueline's full answer.

What’s the value of Adult Day Care and how can I convince a resistant elder to attend?
While caring for my elderly parents, I was advised to get them enrolled in a local Adult Day Care program to give them a life outside of bed all day “just waiting to die,” as my father would say. A year later (and at my wit’s end) I decided it was worth a try after I went for a tour of the center nearby.