by Pam Ness The Alzheimer’s Association recently released the results of an important study on the financial impact of caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease. There are currently over 5 million Americans living with Alzheimer’s, and every 66 seconds someone living in the U.S. is diagnosed with the disease. Alzheimer’s disease is the Read More
The Rise of Kidney Disease & How to Spot It in Seniors
At the International Aging Summit in London last month, kidney disease and failure was a hot topic because an increasing number of seniors are affected worldwide, and adults over the age of eighty-five are the fastest growing demographic around the globe. With age comes the natural degradation of certain body systems, one of which is Read More
Hiring A Geriatric Care Manager
by Anita Kamiel, RN as posted on the Huffington Post 2/9/16 Being a caregiver for an elderly adult can be fraught with unforeseen and challenging situations that many relatives are ill equipped to handle. Managing all the details and logistics required for situating an elderly parent either in their home after a hospital stay or Read More
Balancing Caregiving and Your Career
Balancing caregiving and your career can be a challenge. Caregiver relationships for the ill and elderly ranges greatly, however according to Gallup survey, 72% of caregivers cared for a parent, step-parent, mother-in-law, or father-in-law. In addition, a significant portion of those caring for a family member, 13-22%, are juggling a career in addition of Read More
Alzheimer’s at Young Ages – “Still Alice”
Julianne Moore does an incredible job at playing the part of brilliant, 50-year-old college professor “Alice” who recognizes her own symptoms of a brain disorder – thinking, of course, that it must be a brain tumor. She was forgetting words and directions with more frequency; her normal thought process seemed just a little “out of Read More
Marriage Survival: 6 Tips for the Caregiving Spouse
Caring is a gift of love, obligation or default because there is no one to share the care. With family care often also comes exhaustion, frustration, anger, depression, or disappointment at the same time as loving concern. In our wedding vows, most of us promised to care for our partner in sickness and in health. Read More
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