Senior Care Blog

In the first of this two-part series, I talked about conversations involving changes in life where you as the child of an older parent may be required to step up to help your parent or see that proper help...

In earlier posts I have talked about some ways to broach difficult subjects with an older parent, talks that are about life changes, one of the harder among them was giving up the car keys. This is going to...

Nearly 32 million people in America have measurable hearing loss, and more than one third of those people are 65 years of age or older.  In fact, one’s age is a fairly good predictor of whether and to what...

Nearly a million people in America have a heart attack each year, and for two-thirds of these people it is their first episode.  Beyond heart attacks, there are many more individuals who may suffer from some other form of...

You already know that depression is far more common among older adults than among younger people.  But everyone is at risk for what we used to call “cabin fever” or the winter blues, and it is real.  If you...

Perhaps you have heard stories about people who are checked into a hospital and develop an infection while there.  Or perhaps you have heard of the person with a minor infection that develops quickly into a systemic infection.  All...

We are what we eat.  We have all heard that countless times, but to get down to the details, our heart also is what we eat, and it is a really important organ to feed well.  I am going...

Although most of us think of a Valentine’s heart when February comes up on the calendar, it also is National Heart Month.   If you are a caregiver to an older adult – or an individual of almost any age...