It can be a struggle to help your senior loved one maintain a diet intended to help them manage a chronic medical condition like diabetes. This gets even more difficult during the holiday season when potential diet-busting foods are offered everywhere they go. Unfortunately, candy, cookies and baked goods are the treats that are in abundance during this … Read more
Holiday season is a wonderful time — once we finally decide just what gift we’re going to give our senior loved ones, that is. Yes, the elders on our gift list are often the hardest to check off. Choosing the right gift, or at least avoiding the wrong one, can cause us to wrack our brains … Read more
Many of us try to spend as much time as we can with our senior loved ones who are aging in place in their own homes. We try to do our best to support them with whatever they may need. What happens if they’ve lost their spouse and are now alone in that beloved home – – … Read more
Do you worry that your senior loved one will wander away from home one day — or worse, night — and not be able to find the way home? You are not alone. Family caregivers, especially those with seniors diagnosed with dementia, often worry that it could happen. Our imaginations run wild with the dangers … Read more
Clinical trials can be very important in curing disease and finding ways to help prevent a host of ailments. Have you or your senior loved one ever considered becoming part of a clinical trial? Researchers across the globe receive funding through a variety of sources, including government endowments or federal agencies, foundations, pharmaceutical companies, organizations and … Read more
Does aging damage our brains? Many of us, including family caregivers in the throes of caring for aging loved ones, hold a belief that the natural consequence of aging is a decline in our mental function. After all, don’t our brains age the way our bodies do? Our face gets wrinkly, why not our brains? It … Read more
Falls are dangerous and scary for our senior loved ones. As family caregivers we want to do anything we can to prevent falls because we know that the consequences can be severe. One in three seniors will fall this year. Many of those won’t be serious but too many will be life-changing. Falls are the leading cause … Read more
Many family caregivers unfortunately know the names and faces of the people in the emergency room of the local hospital pretty well. Maybe too well. Why might this be? Because they are visiting the emergency rooms (ER or ED) and hospital wings with their senior loved ones much more frequently than they want. According to … Read more
One of our last great frontiers of knowledge, the human brain, is being explored like never before. Research into the brain is leading to many insights into how our brains work, what can damage them, what leads to cognitive function decline including Alzhiemer’s and other dementias and how to prevent damage to our vital brain cells. … Read more
