Residential Options – Caregiving Articles

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

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.

For Department of State Employees – Caring for Elderly Parents

By Family Liaison Office

Foreign Service families’ concerns mirror those of other American families, but how to ensure good health care, find the right living situation, and handle legal questions is often complicated for Foreign Service families by being posted abroad.

A Difficult Decision

By Paulette Kaufman

This article recounts the experience of the author’s decision to place her mother in an assisted living facility, and the pain involved in making that decision.

Help Me: Coping With The Nursing Home Decision

By Jean Harker

Designed to help family members and friends to better understand these losses and how they are expressed in words, actions, and/or emotions. During this time of change these people are experiencing one of the most difficult periods of their lives.

Nursing Home Crunch Hurts Elderly

By Health Scout News

Residential Options

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is recommending tighter guidelines for nursing homes because the nationwide staff shortage is literally jeopardizing patients’ lives

Directory Of Resources Related To Nursing Homes

By Gail Mitchell

Directory of various resources related to Nursing Homes and Elderly Issues

Choosing A Nursing Home

By Gail Mitchell

The decision is probably one of the hardest ones you will ever face in our lifetime.. key info on info to look for while searching for a home.

Getting Loved Ones to Accept Assisted Living

By Jacqueline Marcell

Convincing elderly loved ones to move from the comfort of the home they’ve known for years into an assisted living situation can be one if the toughest hurdles for families to accomplish.

Cash & Counseling: Consumer Choices, Family Reimbursements

By Gail Mitchell

Cash and counseling (C&C) is a program in which consumers are given the option of receiving cash payments to purchase a variety of support services or make household modifications. Learn more about this program here.

Ten Things To Ask Before Hiring A Home Care Agency

By Shirley Cohen

Home care is considered to be one of the most desirable options for senior care. Here is a checklist of questions to help you determine the right agency for your needs.

Caregiving and Teens: Caregiving? What’s it all about?

By New York Office on Aging

This guide helps teenagers understand the importance of their role and how to deal with this role when caring for an older adult, especially in their home.

Into the Hands of Strangers: Placing A Loved One Into A Nursing Home

By Carolyn Haynali

Placing a loved one in a facility is to some degree an act of seperation. Feelings of abandonment, desertion and wrong doing are common, when we place a loved one in a facility.