Senior Care Blog

You don’t have to be a meteorologist to know that winter can be particularly challenging for older adults in the upper Midwest.  So, I am not going to talk about slipping on ice or hypothermia; I think most of...

It was a story about a prescription shared over lunch recently.  During the course of a lunch with a caregiver, he relayed the “prescription” his spouse had received some ten-plus years ago from a specialist when she was first...

What if I told you there is a threat to your mental health that is three times more common than Alzheimer’s disease?  Yes, about five hundred thousand people each year will be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, but 1.5 million adults...

He said that if he ever were to commit suicide, he would do it in the bathtub in order to avoid leaving a mess.  It caused some gasps and discomfort at the family gathering, but his wife changed the...

As many as seven million Americans, in fact, probably had a pretty “blue” Christmas this past season according to estimates from the Centers from Disease Control and Prevention. I have written before about how many chronic conditions disproportionately affect...

I have a suggestion for the perfect gift for those of you who may be visiting with family during the holidays, perhaps with family members whom you may have begun to notice have cognitive abilities that are slipping a...

It’s almost cliché to talk about being stumped on what to get for your older loved one who may, in fact, have just about everything, but there is one gift all older adults could use.  That gift is added...

If you ask most medical providers what is the number one health issue affecting older adults, you might get a list that looks like this: Arthritis… Hypertension… Asthma… Blindness… Cancer… Chronic Bronchitis. … Coronary Heart Disease. … Dementia. I...