Celebrate Christmas Your Own Way: Imperfectly
posted about 18 hours ago | 1 comment
ear Readers: Is your Christmas cheer beginning to wear thin? You’re on the home stretch now, so it may be time to check in with yourself. Trying to decide how to best celebrate Christmas with your elders, your adult children, your small children a...
PACE: A Program We Should All Have Access To
posted 2 days ago | 0 comments
I've written about PACE (The program of all-inclusive care for the elderly) before. I wish I could write that this program is available everywhere. Alas, it is not. But it is available in many places. If you are looking for comprehensive care for ...
Include Elders in Conversation
posted 5 days ago, updated 1 minute later | 0 comments
I know it can be hard. Your siblings are in town. You visit the nursing home with them so you can all be together with your mom who is living in a care center. The adult children are all jabbering, trying to catch up on each other's lives. Sure, y...
Dementia not always Alzheimer’s
posted 7 days ago | 0 comments
Dear Carol: My dad is having memory problems and he and Mom argue about whether he should have a checkup. He says nothing can be done, even if he has dementia. My grandmother had dementia, but not Alzheimer’s as far as I know. What is the differen...
Minding Our Elders and KindEthics Chat
posted 8 days ago, updated 1 minute later | 0 comments
Minding Our Elders and KindEthics will chat on blogtalk radio. Viki Kind is a personal healthcare strategist and a medical ethicist with a wonderful Web site at www.kindethics.com. She is also a radio host. Viki will be interviewing me Tuesday, Ja...
New Caregiving Magazine Launches This Week
posted 10 days ago | 0 comments
Health and Financial Decisions After Dementia
posted 12 days ago, updated 1 minute later | 0 comments
I see the question way too often: "How can I get Power Of Attorney for my dad? He's got advanced Alzheimer's disease and I need to make financial decisions for him. There will be health decisions as well. I can't get him to understand what needs t...
Poor Oral Health May Contribute to Dementia
posted 14 days ago | 1 comment
Dear Carol: My dad has always been dental phobic. He will go to the dentist to get help if he has pain, but that is all. Now, his cardiologist tells him he must get his teeth cleaned regularly. I thought that would motivate him, but it doesn’t. An...
The Importance of Ceremony During Life Stages
posted 15 days ago | 0 comments
Birth, graduations, marriage, anniversaries, death - important moments in our lives are often celebrated by some type of ceremony. In our middle to late years, we are often encouraged to plan the type of funeral we'd like, even pre-paying so our l...
Holidays Can Push Caregivers to the Max
posted 17 days ago | 0 comments
If one can believe the old Westerns, frontier women multitasked by rocking a cradle with their foot to quiet a squalling baby, while pounding out bread dough with her fists, bossing a full crew young kids and maybe dodging a few bullets. Oh, yeah,...
