Caregiving

Whether you’re a professional, family member or patient, anyone dealing with Alzheimer’s is always on a quest to learn more: best strategies, latest research updates, info on costs and caregiving and networks to provide emotional support. The internet can be a source of great ideas, if you know where to…

Some of us are lucky that we have few, if any, medications to take on a regular basis. But for others of us, it’s a sea of prescription bottles on our counters. Many older people take multiple medications, often with different dosage and schedule instructions. Keeping track can be a…

When you reach a certain age, visions of the “senior life” come more clearly into focus. You may be planning retirement, downsizing your living arrangement or contemplating more time with your children and grandchildren. But do you also have visions of elder care for your own parents? Increasingly, given demographic…

Anyone who’s been a family caregiver quickly comes to realize that the tasks of the job are often more technical or demanding than the skill set of the caregiver. It’s not uncommon for a family caregiver to be asked to provide help that requires real training and practice, such as…

Anyone who’s a family caregiver understands the huge array of responsibilities that can arise from that relationship: physical health, emotional well being, medications, and of course all of the logistics, to name a few. But there are also challenges that involve legal considerations. Being informed may save you, and your loved…

Continuing the theme of conversations with physicians about health care decision making, especially at the end of life: such advance care planning becomes all the more complex and challenging when there’s no clear person to step in to be a surrogate decision maker should something happen to you. Typically, patients…