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Your Aging Parents: Tips for Staying Well (at Home) in a Changing Climate

Posted on March 13, 2020 by Debbie Held

Note of disclaimer: Coronavirus is an ever-evolving world health situation and I am not a physician. My advice is based on the most current research from the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as of … Continue reading →

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Your Aging Parents: What to do when You’ve Got Nothing to Talk About

Posted on January 29, 2020 by Debbie Held

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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Caring for Your Aging Parents: How to Decrease Your Feelings of Isolation

Posted on August 26, 2019 by Debbie Held

One of the most difficult and stressful jobs you’re ever likely to face is one for which you don’t get paid. This work can be so all encompassing as to wreak havoc on your paying employment, as well as on … Continue reading →

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6 Tips for Dealing with Your Aging Parent’s Speedy Remarriage

Posted on July 29, 2019 by Debbie Held

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

Posted on June 20, 2019 by Debbie Held

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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Your Aging Parents: 8 Simple Brain Exercises to Improve Memory or Slow Down Its Loss

Posted on January 2, 2019 by Debbie Held

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 →

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Keeping Your Aging Parents Safe from Internet Predators: 3 Tips for Savvy, Safe Sales Transactions

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Debbie Held

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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Suicide in The Elderly: Risk Factors and Warning Signs

Posted on June 24, 2018 by Debbie Held

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 →

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Your Aging Parents: Ignoring the Situation Won’t Make it go Away

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Debbie Held

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 →

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Working Through Sibling Rivarly to Care for Aging Parents

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Debbie Held

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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