Challenges and joys of caregiving
Submitted by Lisa Cruz Caregivers share their stories of both the ups and downs of caring for an elderly loved one on YouTube
View ArticleHoarding Can Put the Elderly in Harm’s Way
TLC’s hit television show, “Hoarding: Buried Alive,” has brought the disorder of hoarding into many people’s homes. Those who suffer, or who have family members suffering, from hoarding soon learn that...
View ArticleHospice Care: Quality of Life is Key
It’s difficult to understand a subject when most people don’t want to discuss it. Hospice sadly often falls into this category. As the topic is broached, thoughts of death quickly arise and...
View ArticleA Ministry of Presence: Visiting a Nursing Home
Going into most nursing homes today, we don’t often find it overflowing with visitors. Perhaps it is those very ones, the silent ones that can make visiting a daunting and difficult task rather than a...
View ArticleHome Alone: Living Independently Longer
“…When I grow up and get married, I’m living alone. Did you hear me – I’m living alone! I’m living alone!” Words from a precocious eight year old Macaulay Culkin in the popular 1990 movie Home Alone...
View ArticleCaregivers and the Easter Season
As much as we would like to hold on to that wonderful feeling of Easter with its’ bright new beginnings all around us, it may be difficult to do so especially if you are a caregiver for a friend or...
View ArticleWhat is a geriatrician? And do I need one?
The shift in medical practices often happens without much notice from the general population; as in the case of pediatrics and geriatrics. While the specialized focus of pediatrics, which is the...
View ArticleCaregiver Help: Genie in the Magic Lamp
The mid-1960’s sitcom I Dream of Jeannie gave flight to images of rubbing that magic lamp found in a distant faraway desert and out pops the genie who could grant any wish imaginable. Oh if only that...
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