Senior Care Blog

The Boomers are aging, and that means the percentage of adults 65 years of age an older has now surpassed 13% of the population and growing. It also means that the number of older adults who suffer from physical,...

If you are a caregiver, you probably have talked with your older loved one in person or on the phone. You also may have swapped letters in the mail, but chances are that you have not been emailing…let alone...

Awhile ago, a colleague reported that his dad had brought up an awkward topic in passing. His father, a fairly robust man in his eighties had mentioned that he “would not mind if his wife and he could have...

Perhaps you have now had the chance to once again be together with family and older loved ones for the holidays or maybe the visit is still on your calendar? If so, you may have noticed or soon will...

One of the big challenges of the holidays can be all the hype about “over the river and through the woods…” along with all the mandatory “holiday cheer.” If that is the way reality works, why is it that...

In the first of this two part series on caregiving to Alzheimer’s or other dementias I spoke to what kinds of people will have logged the nearly 20 million hours of caregiving to patients with these dementias during the...

By the time we ring out 2013 and welcome in the new year, caregivers to adults with Alzheimer’s or some other form of dementia will have logged nearly 20 billion hours of unpaid care time this year. We all...

We are into the season of giving, but for some dishonest scammers, it is a season for taking. Older adults are targeted more often because they answer their home phones, they have more cash available and the services scammers...