Communicating with Your Doctors for Productive Medical Visits
These days, healthcare is viewed as a partnership between patient and provider, with both parties responsible for ensuring a constructive relationship.
These days, healthcare is viewed as a partnership between patient and provider, with both parties responsible for ensuring a constructive relationship.
Family caregivers provide practical assistance and enhance the quality of life for frail seniors who might otherwise require placement in a long-term care facility.
Taking care of a loved one with dementia is difficult enough without having to worry about how to keep them safe, possibly on your own without the extra help.
Staying sane, not to mention enjoying this special time of the year, is even more of a challenge when you’re caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease or some other type of cognitive impairment.
“Her big thing was, ‘I’m fine, I’m strong,’ recalls her daughter Margaret Robbibaro. “She was going to motor on.” Yet over the next few months, the Sewickley resident started to notice things weren’t quite right with her 84-year-old mother.
While mediators have been used for years to help divorcing couples sort out legal and financial disagreements and avoid court battles, eldercare mediation is a relatively new and specialized service designed to help families resolve disputes that are related to aging parents or other elderly relatives.
Here are some strategies for fostering resilience and helping you cope with the ongoing stress and periodic crises involved in caring for someone with a chronic illness.
As we age, toenails can become thicker and harder to cut, and reduced flexibility can make it more difficult to even get into the right position to cut them.
Music therapist Barbara Zuck of Havre created A-Z Activity Cards to help enrich communication for elderly residents in a variety of care situations.
A number of government programs and other tips that may be able to help caregivers monetarily while they care for their elderly loved ones.
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