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Category Archives: Communication
Your Aging Parents: What to do when You’ve Got Nothing to Talk About
How often do you speak with your aging parent(s)? Now, I’m not referring to those quickie phone calls in which you make sure that Mom’s caretaker has been showing up and that her groceries are being delivered. What I want … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, agingparents, caregivers, caregiving, communication, elderly, FaceTime, sandwichgeneration, seniorcare, seniors
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Your Aging Parents and Technology: Taking Away Their Electronic Devices
Being a caretaker or decision maker for your elderly parents means having to make difficult choices, all in the name of safety—your parents,’ and those around them. Taking away their car keys is one such example; but have you ever … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, aging in place, Assisted Living, caretaking, Communication, Smartphones/Tablets/Devices
Tagged agingparents, caregivers, caregiving, communication, devices, eldercare, elderly, electronics, internet, iPad, isolation, safety, seniorcare, Smartphones, tablets, wellness
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6 Tips for Dealing with Your Aging Parent’s Speedy Remarriage
Few situations tend to bring about as many strong feelings, often banding adult children together against parent, as when your widowed, aging mom or dad decides to remarry—especially after a relatively short period of time since the death of your … Continue reading
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Suicide Among the Elderly: Signs of Danger
In life’s sometimes painful progression, we, as adult children, expect to outlive our parents. This is the circle of life. One day, natural causes or an ongoing illness will lay claim to our elderly parents. Yet there’s something we don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, medication, prescriptions, sandwichgeneration, seniorcare, seniors, suicidalideation, suicide, suicideprevention, welfare, wellness
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Your Aging Parents: 8 Simple Brain Exercises to Improve Memory or Slow Down Its Loss
We all know that physical exercise is important to our bodies’ wellbeing, but did you know that cognitive stimulation is equally important to the health of our brains? Experts say that the brain can be strengthened through targeted exercise, just … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, aging in place, caretaking, Communication, health and wellness, prescriptions, The Middle Ages
Tagged aging, agingparents, brainboosters, cognition, eldercare, elderly, exercise, health, safety, sandwichgeneration, seniorcare, seniors, wellness
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Keeping Your Aging Parents Safe from Internet Predators: 3 Tips for Savvy, Safe Sales Transactions
Chances are you’ve spoken to your children about the subject of “stranger danger” and you continue to do so. They know to avoid strangers in real life as well as on the web and wouldn’t think about opening the front … Continue reading
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Tagged agingparents, cybersafety, eldercare, safety, sandwichgeneration, seniors, strangedanger
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Suicide in The Elderly: Risk Factors and Warning Signs
The recent suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain—both people whose lives seemed full and rich in every sense of the word, have helped to open the topic of suicide up for discussion across dinner tables all over the world. … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, caretaking, Communication, health and wellness, News and Press, prescriptions
Tagged aging, caregivers, caregiving, eldercare, elderly, eldersafety, safety, sandwichgeneration, seniorcare, suicide, suicideprevention, wellness
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Strange Behavior in Your Aging Parent: It May Not be What You Think
As I have written here in the past, common medical conditions can manifest quite differently in the elderly than they do among the general population. Whereas an ongoing headache and fever after a cold of flu would indicate a likely … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, caretaking, Communication, health and wellness, medication, prescriptions, The Middle Ages
Tagged aging, agingparents, caregivers, caregiving, communication, eldercare, elderly, FaceTime, health, medication, safety
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Your Aging Parents: Ignoring the Situation Won’t Make it go Away
When I last heard from Lacey, she was having a crummy holiday season. She’d spent Christmas Eve in an airport, catching an exorbitantly-priced, last-minute, cross-country flight home to be with her ailing, aging parents, both in the same hospital but … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, aging in place, Assisted Living, caretaking, Communication, health and wellness, The Middle Ages
Tagged caregivers, caregiving, eldercare, safety, sandwichgeneration, seniorcare
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Working Through Sibling Rivarly to Care for Aging Parents
Recently, I counseled a woman who was struggling with the ever-increasing demands of caring for her aging parents while trying to manage her own family’s needs. “Mia” has two young children, a husband, and a full-time job—in addition to her … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, agingparents, eldercare, elderly, safety, sandwichgeneration, seniorcare, wellness
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