Senior Care Blog

“Necessity is the mother of invention” is most often attributed to Plato, although he actually wrote, “Our need will be the real creator.”  But you get the point.  This often-quoted phrase, however, really sums up what many are referring...

It was just two weeks ago that I underscored the fact that “older adults have a greater fear of Alzheimer’s than of any other medical condition.”  Okay, but that doesn’t mean that there are no other health care concerns...

I’ve talked about this often in past posts: older adults have a greater fear of Alzheimer’s than of any other medical condition.  In a recent survey, 39% of adults over age 55 feared Alzheimer’s while cancer trailed with 30%...

We are all too familiar with the alarming death rates of those who contract COVID, and the hyper-transmissibility of the omicron variant especially among those who have not been vaccinated.  Researchers at the University of Colorado have been studying...

A caregiver to an older loved one or other person with special needs takes care of everything, right?  A caregiver is the one who gets the call in the middle of the work day … and in the middle...

You may recall the debate on approving Biogen’s Aduhelm for Alzheimer’s this past year.  Prior to this approval there had been no new therapies for almost two decades.  And honestly, none of the earlier therapies…or seemingly even Aduhelm…provided much...

I explained in an earlier post about why we refer to Holidays in the plural, and how we are working to be inclusive of all people’s end of year celebrations of faith.  That was the “Holidays” part, but what...

I came across a billboard this past week that offered a simple suggestion for those of us making lists for holiday giving. Keep the recipient at the center of your gift-giving. Before you brush that off and say, of...