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?
"I Promised My Parents I'd Never Put Them In a Nursing Home"
You promised your parents you'd never put them in a nursing home. Now, your their caregiver, but can no longer take care of them at home. Should you break that promise you made?
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?
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.
Elders and Sex: Who Gets to Decide What is Proper?
What happens when your elderly, single mom or dad falls in love with another single senior at the nursing home or assisted living facility?
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 elderly parents gets ill or one dies and the other is left alone? Should they move closer to family?
Alcoholism and Elders: Watch for the Signs
One caregiver's personal story of an elderly loved one and his struggle with alcoholism.
Keeping Seniors Busy
How to keep your elderly mom or dad active, both physically and mentally.
Adult Day Care – or Day Services – Can Fill a Gap for Caregivers
Although senior day services are not widely known, these respite services are a blessing for caregivers.
Caring for Parents Who Didn't Care for You
How to give emotional and physical care to your elderly parents, even when they didn't care for you as a child.
Caregiving and Guilt: The Wisdom of Hindsight
Learn how to lose the guilt and forgive yourself for your imperfect caregiving.
The Sandwich Generation: What It Is and How to Cope
When caring for elderly parents and children, sandwich generation caregivers must take time for themselves and utilize the respite help that's available.
A Caregiver’s Personal Story: Getting Into a Dementia Patient’s Head
How to deal with caring for an elderly mom or dad who has dementia.
How Can You Recognize the Stages of Alzheimer’s?
Caregivers of Alzheimer's patients often want to know what to expert. This article on the stages of Alzheimer's can help caregivers understand what their elderly mom or dad is experiencing.
Early Grief and the Long Goodbye
The caregivers' grieving process begins the moment a loved one is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, and it can last for years.
Why “Role Reversal” and Other Catch Phrases Can Skew a Caregiver’s Thinking
Are you now “parenting your parents?” Is this what they mean by “role reversal? Well, yes and no.
Sibling Issues Can Get Heated During the Holidays
Caring for your elderly parent is hard work as it is, but what do you, as their primary caregiver, do when your less involved siblings come home for the holidays and start criticizing your efforts?
How Caregivers Can Stay Positive During the Holidays: Drop the Fantasy, Lose the Guilt
The holidays are hectic for everyone, but even more so for caregivers, whose "To Do" list quickly becomes overwhelming. Here are some tips to enjoy the season, guilt-free.
National Family Caregivers Month Is Here To Remind You to Celebrate What You Do
National Family Caregivers Month isn’t just about honoring those who give care. It’s about reminding you to take better care of yourself.
Hospice and Palliative Care: Helping People Die
Here is one caregiver's personal story dealing with hospice care and with the death of her senior father.