Senior Care Blog

As geriatric care consultants, we always tell our clients that caregivers and the loved ones for whom they care can both work on and  benefit from working toward healthier brains.  We are what we exercise.  Okay, we have all...

Yes, you read it right.  I am posting this one about what caregivers should know about their Medicare.  But you may ask, aren’t home caregivers the ones supporting an older loved one…typically a family member?  Well, yes, it is...

Our vice president for geriatric care management services, Steve Steiber, Ph.D., brought some startling information to my attention recently, and it concerns the risk we don’t often think of when we hear that an older loved one has been...

I have written a number of blog postings on safety in the home, and most of them have focused on how to make the home environment safer for an older loved one or other person with special needs. But...

Raise your hand if you ever had a disagreement with a brother or sister as you were growing up.  It may sound like an odd question, but it highlights of the “iron rules” of family dynamics that I have...

I have posted a number of times on how to make home safer as well as how to evaluate what kind of housing may be right for an older loved one who is moving from their lifelong home.  And...

About one in ten American adults, or approximately 44 million people who provide unpaid care to another adult, are caregivers to a loved one.  Some of that care is episodic, some of it is around the clock and the...

When we as geriatric care managers talk about memory loss and aging, it seems inevitable that the discussion turns to Alzheimer’s Disease or some form of dementia.  The truth is, however, that nearly everyone’s brain will begin that slippery...