Senior Care Blog

In the first posting of this two-part series, I went no further than the hallway in our tour of the home.  I certainly appreciate that everyone’s kitchen or bath is going to be a different starting point, so I’ll...

It is not just because of the housing collapse that many seniors have decided to stay in their existing homes instead of moving into a senior community in recent years.  It also is because it is easier to make...

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common source of disability in older adults.  Specifically, it is OA centered on the knee that debilitates more older adults than any other single condition.  Why? OA takes time to develop and those adults...

We’ve all used the expression, “Don’t lose any sleep over it.”  Turns out that losing sleep is one thing that can happen a lot more frequently as we age and it often is associated with other serious medical conditions.  ...

We all know of someone who has received that call out of the blue that a mother or father has fallen and fractured a hip or has had some other unexpected medical emergency that demands a caregiver response.  We...

We hear a lot of news these days about the obesity epidemic, and it is important to appreciate the impact of excess body weight/fat on the heart and the circulatory system.  Some also point to the impact that excess...

It seems that anything that has to do with baby boomers is big these days.   More boomers are retiring, more are changing careers, and yes, more are moving.  Why?  Very simply, there are a lot of baby boomers.  The...

If you are a caregiver to someone with diabetes – Type 1 or Type 2 – then you know that one of the biggest challenges is the fact that food seems to have become the enemy to a diabetic. ...