Senior Care Blog

What could be worse than a COVID pandemic?  How about the uptick in depression and anxiety that mental health experts have been reporting?  Or how about the just, plain negative feelings that enforced quarantine, less social connectedness and social...

We’ve heard Doctor Fauci say it many times…that we have to deal with this pandemic on the virus’ terms, not on our own terms.  But if you are like me, you get a bit weary of that and you...

What is the one thing that almost all of us have had more of than before the COVID-19 pandemic…time!  We may have been industrious and launched into home improvement efforts, we may have binged any number of offerings on...

Guest post author Gregory Peebles is a team member at CCM whose work focuses on helping aging adults and folks with limited independence by navigating resources and support to help them discover and lead their best life. Gregory has been...

We are still in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the consensus among public health experts is that this will continue for some time.  Getting back to “normal” – whatever that was – is an elusive target, and...

I’ve posted a lot over the years on the factors that affect aging…and aging well so that when you are caregiving you know about what else may be going on with your older loved one.  I have talked about...

If you have a family member or loved one with dementia, this pandemic and its restrictions have been exponentially worse than for the rest of us who have “just” sheltered in place.  Depending on where you and your loved...

I’ve written numerous times about distance caregiving, and one of the observations I have offered is that distance is not always measured in miles.  But in the present COVID distancing, every caregiver to an older loved one finds themselves...