Senior Care Blog

At CCM, home and safety are as important to us as to you, so it’s no surprise that it’s a prevailing topic of our discussion. I have asked Gregory Peebles to talk about this topic from the vantage point...

May is Mental Health Awareness month, and that makes it a good time to talk about America’s Drug epidemic…an epidemic that affects older adults every bit as much as it does teens. It also is a good time to...

You may have heard about music therapy, and you certainly have heard the often misquoted: “Music doth have charms to soothe the savage breast.”  But does it work?  Music therapy, that is.  There actually has been a fair amount...

Family life crises don’t make appointments; they just show up. For most people that means tackling a crisis with no experience and no plan. (Hope is not a plan!) So, if you are one of the estimated 109 million...

Diet and exercise are the two key recommendations from most doctors and even on the package inserts of most medications for blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and a number of other conditions.  And this may not be for just...

Most of us have become familiar with generic drugs.  We now have a new category in your medicine cabinet called “biosimilars,” so I have again asked our Vice President, Steve Steiber, Ph.D., to talk to us about what we...

We do a lot of postings on dementia, in no small part because adults rank it as their number one concern, just above running out of money or dying.  I have again asked our Vice President, Steve Steiber, Ph.D.,...

Ask any caregiver to an older loved one, and they most likely will admit that it is a stressful – but rewarding – job. But did you know that caregivers over age 65 are 63% more likely to die...