The stigma of Alzheimer's and dementia: How to cope
How to cope with dementia & Alzheimer's disease stigma. Coping with the stigma of Dementia & Alzheimer's Disease.
How to deal with an elder who complains too much
Why people complain too much. How to deal with someone who is always complaining and what to do to stop the constant complaints.
Yoga for Caregivers: The Natural Way to Relieve Stress & Pain
Yoga can help caregivers relieve their stress and ease the pain you have from taking care of an elderly parent daily.
Siblings in denial about a parent's declining health and care needs
How to get your siblings that go into denial to recognize when an elderly parent's health is declining or their care needs have changed.
8 ways to stop stressing now
Taking care of a parent adds to the stress of daily life and caregivers find themselves burned-out, overwhelmed and looking for an escape.
Facing reality: Caregiving has changed your life
Dealing with reality: Being a caregiver for an elderly parent causes a major life shift. There's a mental adjustment to go through and you often lose the time you used to spend doing things you love.
Bathing how-to's for parents with Alzheimer's disease
Tips for bathing someone with Alzheimer's Disease who may be forgetting to bathe or be afraid of the water.
"I secretly wish my elderly mother would die"
How common is it for caregivers to wish their elderly parent would die? Does having these thoughts make the caregiver a bad person?
Activities at adult day care for people with Alzheimer's
Some adult day care centers have a wide range of activites geared towards elders who have Alzheimer's or dementia.
Get over feelings that prevent you from visiting the nursing home
Sometimes people avoid visiting their elderly parents in a nursing home because of guilt, stress or other emotions. Learn how to deal with these and what you can do if you feel reluctant to visit an elderly loved one in a nursing home.
How hiring a handyman helps your elderly parents
When aging parents want to continue living at home, but can no longer do minor home repairs, a handyman for seniors could be the answer.
Your parent is dying: When is hospice needed?
When an elderly parent is dying and has only months to live, here's advice on when hospice care is needed for the terminally ill patient, and what services hospice provides.
Is your parent safe in the nursing home?
Nursing home safety is improving, and many nursing homes have technology and procedures in place to ensure the safety of elderly residents.
How geriatric care managers help busy or long-distance caregivers
Geriatric care managers help caregivers manage their aging parents needs, including health care, finances, housing choices and more.
Choosing housing: Options for seniors and elderly parents
How to decide if your elderly parent should live in assisted living, a nursing home, independent living or some other senior housing.
Senior Moving services help your parents transition into Nursing Homes or Assisted Living
Senior moving services, or transitional movers for the elderly can help families move their eldelry parents to nursing homes, or clear out belongings after their death.
Mom's going to live with us: How should I prepare my family?
When an elderly parent is coming to live with you - for good, how should a caregiver prepare herself and her family for the elderly parent moving in?
Have nursing homes changed to shed their bad reputation?
Nursing homes of the past were known as institution-like environments, where people went to die. Today's nursing homes have been modernized and are comfortable home-like settings.
How do you know when in-home care is required for your parent?
Home health care is needed in many situations: When an elderly person is recovering from a surgery or hospitalization, or when the elder needs help with housecleaning, cooking, taking medications.
How Adult Day Care Can Give You the Break You Deserve
What is adult day care, what services are provided at adult day care, and what kinds of adult day care are there? How can adult day care give you a break from caregiving.
Is the nursing home over-medicating your elderly parent?
How do caregivers know if the nursing home staff is over-medicating their elderly parents? And are these medications needed, or used to sedate patients to make the staff's job easier?
Tips for Preventing Falls and Broken Hips in Elderly Parents
What can be done at home to prevent falls, broken hips and mobility problems in the elderly, which become more common as parents age?
When an elderly parent in the nursing home says "I just want to go home"
How does a caregiver convince an elderly parent that the nursing home, assisted living center or other senior care center is home?
How to balance an elder's sense of purpose and dignity with their safety
Seniors need to feel useful, by doing activities and hobbies they enjoy. When should caregivers interfere if they see danger in elders' activities?
Eye, Ear, Teeth Check-ups Are Difficult When Elders Have Dementia
When it comes to health check-ups elders with dementia or Alzheimer's often become confused and afraid.
Should Your Elderly Parent Risk an Anesthesia Disaster or Forego Surgery?
Sometimes caregivers must make the decision about whether or not an elderly parent should risk surgery.
Elders Abusing Their Adult Children Who Are Taking Care of Them
Why do elderly parents turn on the child that is trying so hard to take care of them?
Caregivers and Multi-tasking: Holidays Can Push People Caring for Elderly Parents to the Max
For the Sandwich Generation, holidays are stressful. Their elderly parents need help, the kids need help, the spouse needs help. Here's advice how to cope for caregivers.
Two Parents With Dementia: How Do Caregivers Cope?
When an elderly mom and dad both have dementia, how does a caregiver deal with the feelings of sadness, frustration and isolation?
Senior Housing: The Emotional Side of Moving Your Elderly Parent
Moving an aging or elderly parent into assisted living or a nursing home is a hard transition for both the caregivers and the elderly mom or dad.
Hospice Care: How to Choose the Right Hospice for Your Elderly Parent
Investigate hospices early, before your elderly parent’s end of life approaches.
Having “The Talk” with Elders: Conversations about End of Life Issues
How caregivers can address elders’ plans, wishes and issues related to end of life.
Is My Elderly Parent a Shopaholic?
Adult children trying to curb their parents’ spending habits can find it hard going.
How to Hire In-Home Help for Elderly Parents
Caregivers can't do it all alone, and in-home care for aging parents can be a blessing -- but here are some "gotchas" to look out for when hiring someone to look after your elderly mom or dad.
When Elders Don’t Accept Outside Caregivers in the Home
Some elders don't want home health agencies and professional caregivers in their home. What can caregivers do to ensure their elderly parents get proper care?
Family Caregivers Need to Be Fair to Out-of-Area Siblings
When caring for an elderly parent, its often the sibling who lives closest to mom or dad who ends being the caregiver. But how do out-of-town siblings feel about this?
Elders and Controlling Behavior: What's a Caregiver to Do?
Some controlling behavior by elders toward their family caregivers is fear driven.
Elder Parent Care Can Bring out the Worst in Siblings
Often, a mediator, such as a geriatric care manager can help siblings resolve their differnces regarding caring for elderly parents.
Younger Seniors and Older Elderly: How Nursing Homes Need to Adjust
There's a culture clash happening in nursing homes: younger seniors (60s) versus older residents (80s).
How to Communicate When Your Elderly Parent Can No Longer Speak
When parents can't talk, caregivers still must find ways to communicate with them.
How Do I Get Dad Out of His Cluttered, Unsafe Home?
The task of getting an elderly relative out of a cluttered, filthy, unsafe home is never easy. Here are some tips for caregivers and family to make the process more successful.
"I Promised My Parents I'd Never Put Them in a Nursing Home"
The time has come when you can no longer safely care for your senior parent at home. Should you break the promise you made and put them in a nursing home?
Dad Won’t Shower or Change His Clothes. What Do I Do?
How caregivers can deal with elders who refuse to bathe or shower.
Five Steps Caregivers Can Take If They are Unhappy with a Senior Care Center
What's a caregiver to do if they aren't happy with the care their elderly seniors are receiving at an assisted living facility, nursing home or other senior care facility?
Dad Died, Mom Has Dementia. Should I Tell Her?
Should a family caregiver tell their elderly parent when their spouse dies?
Living with Elderly Parents: Do You Regret the Decision?
“What have I gotten myself into? I don't want mom to live with me anymore." What do caregivers do when they’re living with an elderly mom or dad and they want out?
Caregivers Find Support When They Have Time - Which Isn't Often
Caring for an elderly parent is a 24-hour-a-day job. As one caregiver found, those who care for their senior parents often find solace and support in the wee hours.
Are Your Siblings More Interested in Getting an Inheritance Than Elderly Parents’ Quality of Care?
What to do if your siblings care more about getting an inheritance than giving your elderly mom or dad the quality care they need and deserve.
Don't Let Caring for Your Elderly Parents Ruin Your Other Relationships
How much of their lives do adult children owe their aging parents? Caring for your senior mom or dad can take a huge emotional toll and destroy other important relationships.
Should Aging Parents With Dementia Lose the Right to Vote?
As dementia worsens, should seniors be denied the right to vote? Where do caregivers draw the line?