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Despite what you might see on TV commercials, growing numbers of seniors know what it means to post something on their wall or unfriend someone. Yes, grandma is using Facebook (grandpa too), just as we thought would happen when advocating that family caregivers urge senior loved ones to get on the Web – even if … Read more

I speak with many people who are family caregivers of those with dementia about a wide range of topics. I have been a family caregiver to someone with Alzheimer’s myself as well as cared for countless other family members and patients over my long healthcare career. Because I am also a dietitian, I talk with … Read more

Organization — or, more accurately, lack of it — is one of the biggest struggles I hear from many of the family caregivers with whom I connect. Inadequate time management, unending paperwork shuffle, and scheduling nightmares, seemingly always when most inconvenient, add stress to the lives of family caregivers. Caregivers are often the only ones who … Read more

“A robot in every home” seemed a rather far-fetched idea to most people when Bill Gates wrote an article of that name published by Scientific American in 2006. While it may seem just as remote a possibility to you today, we see it as something likely to happen in the lifetime of many baby boomers. … Read more

When your organization’s CEO arrives for the keynote address of your annual international event in a driverless Mercedes, you might be excused if you forget he’s CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association. Until you remember what makes that Mercedes driverless, that is. Between the buzz surrounding the 2015 International CES and the high profiles of … Read more

Picture a touchless thermometer that automatically records readings in a smartphone/tablet app. Add to that picture a family caregiver sending a child’s or senior’s healthcare team a series of reliable temperature readings upon which to base a diagnosis more quickly and confidently to get treatment started. And that’s just one in a broad array of … Read more

The day before 2015 International CES officially opens means we get a taste of the innovation we’ll see in the rest of the week, not to mention the crowds and noise. And that’s just what we encountered on CES Press Day. Bring on the real crowds! Well, not really, but then again the crowds are part … Read more

We all want the best for our senior loved ones. We want them to live in the home of their choice as long as it is safe and healthy for them to do so. Their home of choice could be the one in which they have lived all their adult lives, one that is closer … Read more

The new year is here and we are considering just which resolution goal to attempt achieve this year. Eureka! I’ve got it! Let’s work together to increase our physical activity so that not only will our senior loved ones be in a better state of health physically and mentally, but we family caregivers will be as well! Boring – … Read more