Caring for a Disabled Elderly
If you're caring for a disabled elderly loved one you may not know about some benefits that are available to help assists disabled elderly. Learn about financial benefits for home modification, medical care and more. Find tips to help you care for an elderly disabled loved one or parent, and how you can keep them safe in their home or yours.
Articles About Disabled Elderly
- Fire Safety for Elders with Special Health Needs
When it comes to fire safety, elderly people with mobility problems, vision or hearing impairments, Alzheimer’s and dementia have special needs. Protect elderly during a fire emergency with these safety tips.
- Breast Cancer: Signs, Symptoms and Treatments
Get information about breast cancer symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and caring for someone who has breast cancer.
- Skin Cancer: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment
Skin cancer comes in many different forms including melanoma, basal cell and skin cancer. Some kinds are more dangerous than others.
- Convincing an Elderly Parent to Wear Adult Diapers
Convincing an elderly parent who has incontinence to wear adult diapers is a difficult task. Here are some tips for caregivers to address the topic of incontinence protection.
- 6 Things That Cause the Elderly to Fall
Falls are not an inevitable part of growing older. Many falls can be prevented if caregivers take a few simple steps to make their elderly parent's life safer.
- Ten Traveling Tips for The Elderly
Here are 10 steps for caregivers to consider when planning a trip for your senior mom or dad. Plan Ahead!
- Hematuria in the Elderly
What is hematuria and should caregivers be concerned if their elderly parent has it?
- Detaching With Love: Setting Boundaries in Toxic Relationships
When a parent constantly criticizes, complain, yells, screams and verbally abuses their caregiver, sometimes it is necessary to detach yourself from the situation.
- Medical Devices That Might Set Off Airport Security Alarms
How to quickly get through airport security with medical devices such as pacemakers, artificial hips, hearing aids walkers and other assistive devices that are common among elderly people.
- How do Ventilators Work?
Ventilators are machines that help people breathe easier - but are they dangerous?
- How Do Senior's Urinary Systems Work?
When the urinary system doesn't function properly, it can lead to a wide variety of senior health problems.
Q&A with the Experts on Disabled Elderly
- Is dad entitled to a tax deduction every year for his disability?
If the situation remains the same as the previous tax filing year, it would be safe to assume the deduction for this year would still be available.