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Aging Parents Who Expect Too Much: Try These Tips

April 30, 2023

In an ideal world, we could perfectly compartmentalize our caregiving duties, staying with a routine that met the needs of our aging parents, while enabling the time needed to take care of our wide variety of other responsibilities. But needless to say, life doesn’t adhere to our desired script, and contradicting needs are common when caring for senior loved ones. [Read More...]

Managing Urinary Incontinence with Dementia

March 18, 2020

Dementia care requires both compassion and creativity to deal with a variety of challenging behaviors and effects, and that’s particularly true in relation to urinary incontinence, something that is very common in Alzheimer’s as well as other forms of dementia. [Read More...]

A New Cancer Treatment Shows Promise for Impacting All Forms of the Disease

March 4, 2020

There is no doubt about how amazing our body’s immune system is in attacking invading bacteria and viruses and restoring us to health following an illness, but the current discoveries from researchers at Cardiff University are set to generate a new and unanticipated advancement: halting cancer in its tracks. [Read More...]

Dealing with Dementia Agitation? Try These Strategies to Restore Calm

February 19, 2020

Agitation is one of the more challenging hurdles to overcome when dealing with dementia, and can be exceedingly frustrating for family members to manage. One of the keys is in taking steps to handle agitation before it is felt and conveyed by the older adult, which involves keeping tabs on what has triggered these feelings in the past, and creating a home environment in which those stimulants are eliminated or minimized. [Read More...]

How to Ensure the Most Productive Family Meetings When Caring for Elderly Parents

February 5, 2020

“It takes a village” was never a truer statement than when caring for elderly parents. And it’s necessary for that “village” to keep up successful, ongoing communication to be able to provide the very best care to make certain that everyone involved with care is on the same page. [Read More...]

Locking older people in a nursing home ‘for their own safety’?

May 3, 2017

There’s no need to lock older people into nursing homes ‘for their own safety’

Marta Woolford, Monash University and Joseph Ibrahim, Monash University Older people in nursing homes or aged care facilities are often locked up “for their own safety”. [Read More...]

Why Those Who Feel Younger Live Longer and Happiness is Healthy

November 2, 2016

< Lying about your age may be the very thing that helps you live a longer life. If you truly believe that you are younger than you really are, a new study shows that you are among a group of people with a lower death rate compared to those who felt their age or older. This new study includes data from over 6,400 people averaging slightly less than 66 years of age who reported that they felt a little less than 10 years younger. When researchers followed up on these people over the next 8 years, only a little over 14% of those who “felt younger” had passed away compared to 24% who reported feeling their actual age or older. Read more about age perception and life span HERE. Many scientific studies have found a connection between psychological and physical well-being. A review of more than 200 studies back in 2012 found a connection between positive psychological attributes (i.e. happiness, optimism and life satisfaction) and a lower risk of cardiovascular disease. [Read More...]

Senior Driving – Functionality Over Age

October 10, 2016

Smiling senior couple enjoying a car ride

Senior Driving: Treating health problems to improve function can help older adults drive safely. Age alone shouldn’t be a reason to quit driving… Instead, the focus should be directed towards the individual’s functionality. To increase the awareness of safer senior driving options that exist, AARP Driver Safety offers a variety of programs to educate older drivers. [Read More...]