Caregiving to Older Workers
Read moreIt may surprise you to learn that as many as one in five caregivers are lending their help to an older adult who is still working a nine-to-five job. A lot of my writing has been about what we...
December 28, 201100Making Home Safer for the Holidays
Read moreIf you will be heading home for any of these seasonal holidays you will find that it can be a wonderful trip back in time as you revisit your own family history in the context of your mom’s or...
December 23, 2011Senior Scams Spike During the Holidays
Read moreWe are fortunate to have a new contribution from a good friend and colleague, Julie Northcutt of Caregiverlist.com. Julie offers a caution in this contribution about the scams that seek to prey on older adults, so please give her...
December 14, 2011Four Things a Geriatric Care Manager Is
Read moreIt has been over a year since my first posting when I started this blog by talking about why a person should call a Geriatric Care Manager (GCM). Since I have answered this question with almost everyone of the...
December 8, 2011Four Ways a Caregiver’s Nose Can Help
Read moreI have written in past blogs about some of the inevitable decline of physical capabilities associated with aging, and a lot of them are not really a surprise. We all walk more slowly, we see and hear less clearly,...
October 14, 2011Four Ways to Fight Dementia
Read moreWhat do hearing aids, exercise, support groups and travel have in common? They all are ways that individuals suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease, specifically, or dementia, generally, can fight these diseases’ progression. Even more important, they help to fight the...
October 2, 2011Illinois’ Long Term Care Scorecard
Read moreIllinois long term care has been ranked at about number 24 out of the 50 United States on a number of dimensions by AARP, The Commonwealth Fund and The Scan Foundation. So, does that mean that Illinois’ long term...
September 29, 2011Four Tips for Making Long Distance Caregiving Work
Read moreWith a lot of talk these days about children moving back in with parents and intergenerational homes, it is easy to overlook the huge growth in “distance caregiving” in America. In 1997 the number of distance caregivers – family...
September 19, 2011