Senior Care Blog

This is not going to be a course in economics, but quite often caregivers of family members get more focused on how much respite care casts instead of on how much everyone benefits. Talking about costs first, there are...

Caregivers tend to be very dedicated to caring for others, typically an older parent or disabled member of the family, but they often do not do so well in caring for themselves.  It is not that caregivers do not...

Of the estimated seven million Americans who have been full-time workers and caregivers, about six percent left the workforce for at least some amount of time to devote themselves full-time to caregiving.  If you are one of these caregivers...

More than seven million Americans are balancing the demands of a full-time job along with caregiving to a family member, typically an older parent.  For many, they daily choose between work and family as they try to juggle each...

If you are a caregiver to one of the nearly 13% of Illinois residents who are 65 years of age or older, you may be a bit more stressed since July 1, 2012.  That is the date when a...

Over the past couple years on more than one occasion I have talked about what a geriatric care manager (GCM) is.  Even though the national association that accredits professional geriatric care managers (NAPGCM )is about 30 years old, the question...

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) adverse drug reactions or overmedication result in more than 700,000 hospitalizations a year.  And many of these could be avoided by following advice offered by the American Geriatrics Society.  The AGS’s...

May is National Geriatric Care Manager Month, but I am thinking that most of you probably did not get the memo.  You may have been following my blog – especially those with an older parent or loved one –...