Senior Care Blog

I attended a medical visit along with one of my clients recently, and he was presented with a document on his rights and responsibilities as a patient.  As  geriatric care managers and care professionals, we often accompany our clients...

Do you have pain in your back, particularly your lower back – that area around your belt line or slightly lower?  If not, please consider yourself lucky, but also just wait.  According to some experts, about four in five...

I have asked our vice president for geriatric care management and senior services, Dr. Steve Steiber, to share a guest posting about the recent Tylenol news.  He has nearly two decades experience in pharmaceutical medical device consulting prior to...

While it has been a fairly temperate season where we live and work, not all parts of the world have been spared the heat of summer.  As we approach the dog days of summer – August – it may...

I have really lost track of how many conversations and/or blog postings I have had about Caregiver Stress.  As a certified geriatric care manager, we work with families, and a substantial part of my focus is upon the stress...

Most of you probably know that Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia among younger and older Americans.  One in three Americans dies with either Alzheimer’s or some other form of dementia.  Scientists make a distinction between...

If you are a caregiver to an older adult, don’t be surprised if your loved one is asked if there is a gun in their home during the next doctors’ office visit.   In the past. such questioning was usually...

You may not have been following the news in China this past week, but China has enacted what may be the first law governing caregiving to older adults.  In a law called the “Protection of the Rights and Interests...