Avoiding Caregiver Burnout
One of the greatest risks to caregivers is burnout. This issue has been known to plague both family members caring for the aging and...
A Call to Action
Caring for aging family members is a bit like disaster relief. People often feel compelled to rise to the occasion. Much like local...
Options
Options in elder care appeals to a variety of personal sensibilities. Some prefer community while others want to stay home. Some many...
Empowerment
Why are home care services so needed in this day and age? I believe the answer is because families want the peace of mind that their...
Long-Term Care Decentralization
Over the last several decades, having the ability to place an aging loved one into an institutional has become the norm. Long-term care...
My Parent's Parent Pat Two
Our culture has a bad habit of numbing and quarantining issues we don't want to deal with. We do this with mental illness. We train...
My Parent's Parent Part One
It will happen to almost everyone. We will one day have to care for one or both of our parents the way they cared for us when we were...
Understanding Alzheimer's
It is an interesting paradox with one stricken with Alzheimer’s. You are confined, yet bound by nothing. Life is structured, yet...
Aging Parents
My hope later this year is to take a more active role in caring for my parents and grandparents. This is particularly the case with my...
Caring for Seniors
In the summer of 2014, I became a music volunteer for Hospice and Home Care. In the years since, I have developed a passion for the...