Senior Care Blog

Associate Care Manager Gregory is a Certified Senior Advisor (CSA) and Certified Dementia Practitioner (CDP) whose work focuses on helping aging adults and folks with limited independence by providing resources and support to help them discover and lead their best...

April showers are supposed to bring May flowers, but what does May bring?  It brings Mental Health Awareness Month…among other things.  If you are a caregiver to an older loved one, this is particularly important.  Mental illness – particularly...

It is not just hearing that is lost when a person loses their auditory ability; other cognitive capabilities are at risk as well.  Yes, losing hearing can lead to memory loss or dementia.  There are about 48 million Americans...

Lauren Weldon is a partner in Margolis Weldon, a law firm specializing in estate planning and elder law.  We have invited Lauren to post on what we all need to know about Long Term Care.  She offers this: Even...

…which is to say that there is new research that shows exercise can help keep the brain healthy and able to produce and retain memory function! I have had a number of posts over the years on the importance...

Earlier this month, Kaiser Health News published an update on what the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)  is doing to reimburse for more services that may not be strictly medical…but offer a health benefit.  With Kaiser’s permission...

Barbara Bush, wife and mother to presidents, has taught us another lesson this past week, and it is about how she chose to die.  She taught us that palliative care and hospice care are different concepts, but she also...

Stan Lee, the 95 year old co-creator of The Guardians of the Galaxy and the rest of the Marvel Comic Book series was in the headlines of the Hollywood Reporter this past week.  But the story was not about...