Senior Care Blog

What 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...

Illinois 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...

With 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...

Everyone who is a caregiver to an elder or other person with special needs has to be an advocate also.  In my first blog posting, I spoke about what a geriatric care manager does on behalf of the elder...

It’s a disease that affects about 26 million Americans.  If untreated it will kill these people.  And more than a third of patients who have been diagnosed with it and counseled about it do not even know they have...

I have written in earlier blog postings about dementia: “preventing” Alzheimer’s Disease, Alzheimer’s from the inside out,  maternal genetic links to Alzheimer’s, and women’s predisposition to Alzheimer’s.  I would like to share some research that shows dementia to be...

In my experience as a geriatric care manager, I field a lot of questions from people who are suddenly faced with caring for an older parent or spouse.  For people who become caregivers overnight after a parent has a...

In many of my postings on family caregivers I have talked about the really hard job of caring for an older adult or someone else with special needs.  At the personal level it truly is an enormous responsibility with...