Senior Care Blog

            How many of you were on the road this past Memorial Day weekend?  It is something of an American tradition that families get on the road for a long holiday weekend to visit other family members or just...

Dementia is one of the topics to which those of us who are geriatric care managers (GCMs) devote a fair bit of attention.  In our day to day work and in my blog I have often talked about how...

Every 39 seconds someone in the United States will suffer a stroke, and about three of every four of these people will be 65 years of age or older.  Since May is Stroke Awareness Month, it is a reminder...

For a what, you may ask?             I have either talked about or invited elder law attorneys to talk about advanced directives like Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders, living wills, powers of attorney and other documents that will help...

How many times have we all seen the commercial with the plaintive actor on the floor crying, “Help, I’ve _____ and I can’t get up.”  No one would ignore a plea for help from an older person who has...

Today’s Blog is a guest posting from Cindy Levitt, founder of peace by piece professional organizing and design. Moving can be one of life’s most stressful events, or it can be one of the most liberating.  Studies rank moving...

Over the years I have devoted a lot of space to talking about what a Geriatric Care Manager (GCM) does.  And that is because we as a profession have a long way to go before people know what we...

The prescription for aging well starts with the opposite advice that you may have heard.  You may have heard people advise you to “not sweat the details.”  Well, that is good figurative advice, but when it comes to being...