Senior Care Blog

Too much caregiving can be harmful to your health! I have talked in the past about how important it is for us all to help care for the caregiver and that caregivers deserve to take care of themselves in...

When I speak with clients about dementia, there are usually three kinds of questions that come up a lot. The first is whether there is a cure, or at least an effective treatment for dementia? The second is does...

When Medicare is defrauded by crooked providers, pharmacists, or any person posing as an expert who can make a telephone call or door to door solicitation, we all lose. Our tax dollars foot the bills. Anyone keeping an eye...

Some of us are “older,” but we ALL are aging. And there is no time like the present to take better care of ourselves. Here are physicians’ top eight recommendations: 1. Heed your Scale: Three out of four adults...

Back in May I posted about how May used to be called National Geriatric Care Manager Month, but with a change in our association’s name it has become National Aging Life Care Professional Month. People have asked me what...

If you were diagnosed with dementia, would you want to be told? If you said “yes,” you are in agreement with nine of ten Americans in nearly two dozen national surveys on the subject. Even among patients actually diagnosed...

You have heard about how “brain teasers” or other “brain games” like crossword puzzles are helpful in keeping a brain healthy, and they are. Working an older person’s body – and for that matter the body of a person...

May has been Geriatric Care Manager Month for 31 years. Now, with a change in how we refer to ourselves – starting with our national association – May has become National Aging Life Care Month. And we Geriatric Care...