Senior Care Blog

When Medicare is defrauded by crooked providers, pharmacists, or any person posing as an expert who can make a telephone call or door to door solicitation, we all lose. Our tax dollars foot the bills. Anyone keeping an eye...

Some of us are “older,” but we ALL are aging. And there is no time like the present to take better care of ourselves. Here are physicians’ top eight recommendations: 1. Heed your Scale: Three out of four adults...

Back in May I posted about how May used to be called National Geriatric Care Manager Month, but with a change in our association’s name it has become National Aging Life Care Professional Month. People have asked me what...

If you were diagnosed with dementia, would you want to be told? If you said “yes,” you are in agreement with nine of ten Americans in nearly two dozen national surveys on the subject. Even among patients actually diagnosed...

You have heard about how “brain teasers” or other “brain games” like crossword puzzles are helpful in keeping a brain healthy, and they are. Working an older person’s body – and for that matter the body of a person...

May has been Geriatric Care Manager Month for 31 years. Now, with a change in how we refer to ourselves – starting with our national association – May has become National Aging Life Care Month. And we Geriatric Care...

For this week’s post, Charlotte asked Rebecca Bloomfield, partner at Jerry S. Pearlstein Insurance, to speak to caregivers about long term care insurance. She and Jerry head up a unique agency of trusted advisors, helping individuals and families to...

Raise your hand if you are a caregiver and have never misplaced your car keys. Raise your hand if you are a caregiver and have never been concerned that the forgetfulness of an older loved one might be a...