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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.

How to Buy a Walk in Bathtub

By Pat Krushen
  • Disability - Accessability - Mobility

Tips on what to look for when purchasing a walk in bathtub

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.

Why Should You Heal Yourself

By Patrick McNally
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs

Reasons for and techniques for self-healing.

Let Go of Loneliness and Discontentment

By Guy Finley
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs

Nothing is more discontented than our lower nature, the false self. It is
always unhappy with one thing or another. If there is one weed in a field of
roses, you can bet that is what it will see.

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.

The Courage of Caring

By Gladys González-Ramos Ph.D., M.S.W
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas

The author shares her caregiving experiences with her mother who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and the anguish of her father.

Then What Will You Do?

By Alan Cohen
  • Aging
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
  • Wellness

The only thing more important than what you get done is how you feel when you are doing it. If you get everything done, but lose your joy in the process, what is the good? And if you get less than everything done and you feel great, how valuable is that?

Little Billy

By Gwendolyn deGeest RN, BSN, MA
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions

This story is a very real depiction of the challenging behaviors exhibited by the person with dementia. In this study a small child is able to intervene and provide a solution.

Surviving Widowhood: My First Year

By Sally A. Connolly
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Wellness

A widow recommends ways to speed recovery and improve emotional health after the loss of a loved one. By using talents and interests, the bereaved can cope with the present and begin to move toward healing and a meaningful future.

Caregiving – The Ultimate Love

By Jeri Lynn Platt
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Death and Dying
  • End-of-Life-Hospice - Palliative Care
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Legislation and Advocacy
  • Long Term Care
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Respite Coalitions & Services
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
  • Support Groups
  • Volunteer Service Programs
  • Wellness

Being the caregiver of someone who is terminally ill is one of the most difficult and painful jobs one will likely ever experience. It is also one of the most rewarding and privileged gifts one can ever give or receive. It is the Ultimate Love.

Everything You Must Know Before you Fill out Your Last Will and Testament Form

By David Fagan
  • Forms - Downloadable & Printable

Avoid family disagreements. Many families struggle over who should get what. A will allows you to give your things to whomever you want, not to whomever a judge decides will get it.

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