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Five key questions caregivers should ask when a senior can no longer live independently

By Mardy Chizek
  • Eldercare

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.

How to Eliminate Dental Phobia: A Caregiver’s Tool

By Shoshana Davis
  • Eldercare

How a caregiver can help to a senior suffuring with Dental Phobia.

Elder Care & Elder Rage: Know The Warning Signs of Alzheimer’s!

By Jacqueline Marcell
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Community Services
  • Disability - Accessability - Mobility
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Eldercare
  • End-of-Life-Hospice - Palliative Care
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters
  • Homecare - Home Health Care
  • Long Term Care
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Residential Options
  • Support Groups

Jacqueline Marcell barely survived caring for her elderly parents, both with Alzheimer’s which went undiagnosed for over a year. But after fighting through an unsympathetic medical system she figured everything out medically and behaviorally.

Caregiving to elders: Issues and challenges

By R. Narayanasamy
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Eldercare

This article analyses the caregiving needs for the growing elderly population and also explains the difficulties of caregiving

Goodbye Upstairs

By Mary Ellington
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Eldercare

This is a story about my father going through every closet in the house. I thought he was on a cleaning frenzy, but it turned out he was saying goodbye.

Bathing Tips for People With Dementia

By Cindy Keith, RN, BS, CDP
  • Aging
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Eldercare

Getting a person with any type of dementia to take a bath if often a very frustrating experience for both the person with dementia and the caregiver. I have a few tips to help.

The Daily-ness of It All

By Joseph Skillin
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Eldercare
  • Homecare - Home Health Care
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs

This single chapter of CONFESSIONS OF A CAREGIVER, WHEN ALZHEIMER’S COMES TO YOUR HOME explains how caregiving continues day after day, with no end in sight.

Alive in Fear

By Holly Whiteside
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Eldercare
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
  • Wellness

“Alive in Fear” is an excerpt from “The Caregiver’s Compass: How To Navigate With Balance & Effectiveness Using Mindful Caregiving.” It offers guidance in how to stay balanced and moving forward, despite the emotional challenges that arise.

Helping Your Older Parents Stay Happy and Healthy

By Robert Stall M.D.
  • Aging
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Eldercare
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

The following six recommendations will help you understand what may be happening to your parents as they age – and what you can do to help.

Applying for V.A. Aid and Attendance Benefits

By Paul Renard
  • Disability - Accessability - Mobility
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Eldercare
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters
  • Homecare - Home Health Care
  • Long Term Care

Up to 4 to 5 million veterans, spouses, and widows/widowers are entitled to unclaimed V.A. A&A benefits ranging from $850-$3,000. Our FREE and PAID courses walk through the application process.

Medical Advice: 7 Questions You Should Ask Your Loved One’s Doctor Before Accepting Any Kind of Medical Treatment

By Pierce Scranton
  • Eldercare

We all want to think our loved one’s doctors are infallible. We’d like to think our loved one’s doctors know everything there is to know about treating our loved one’s particular conditions.

Alzheimer’s

By Angelica White
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Eldercare

Fear surrounds Alzheimer’s, nobody wants it, everybody is afraid of it. Families of people who have it are afraid of what they see happening. How can we over come the fear?

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