Preventing and Treating Dementia Caregiver Burnout
My article gives practical tips for caregivers of dementia patients.
Stop Useless Suffering Before It Begins
Your true Self doesn’t win in life by overpowering problems, but by revealing they never really existed as you once believed they did.
Catching Messages From Heaven
By giving your complete attention to the living Presence of all that you are, you will be given, in exchange the incomparable awareness that while all around you everything changes, within you lives what is unchanging.
An Invisibile Means of Support
- Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
- Caregiver Issues
- Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
- End-of-Life-Hospice - Palliative Care
- Grief and Bereavement
- Long Term Care
- Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
- Support Groups
Relates a personal experience emphasizing the importance of a support group to a long-term family caregiver, especially for men who do not want to share their feelings or ask for help.
What you need to know about care plans
Regardless of where a senior’s healthcare is delivered, the provider and team will have created a care plan based on his or her conditions.
Pain management poses challenges in the care of seniors
A key step in the treatment of pain in the elderly is actually recognizing the pain. The elderly patient may not always volunteer the information and therefore they must be asked routinely whether or not they are experiencing any pain.
Senior Frailty Can Lead to Disability and Death
Frailty is a geriatric, older adult syndrome that is recognized as a risk for further decline and should be screened for by all clinicians who care for the elderly.
What to do with all of those pills
Over one billion dollars’ worth of prescription drugs each year are either being stored in medicine cabinets or improperly thrown away.
Polypharmacy poses dangerous threat to seniors
The medical community has even coined a phrase to describe the preponderance of drugs being taken by seniors, many of which may not actually be necessary. It’s called polypharmacy.
Medicaid Eligibility and Enrollment Procedures
It’s important to be well informed when it comes to Medicaid eligibility and enrollment requirements
Distance Should Not Diminish Caregiving Quality
Distance does not have to diminish caregiving quality for the seven million adults providing long distance caregiving for their aging parents.
Five key questions caregivers should ask when a senior can no longer live independently
When a senior can no longer live independently, before considering placement in an assisted living facility or nursing home, family members should consider all available options.