Family caregivers need to read A Bittersweet Season Caring for Our Aging Parents – and Ourselves by Jane Gross. The journalist who started The New York Times healthcare blog, The New Old Age, Jane takes the reader through the caregiving for her mother with her brother and every other resource she came across. Her mother had moved from New [...]
June is a great month to check on how safe it is for seniors in their place of living. With National Home Safety Month, the Home Safety Council has some good information on falls prevention. Falls are the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the home. Many excellent products for senior home safety are [...]
April is Occupational Therapy Month. Help with rehab from hip replacement surgery is one of the many skills offered by occupational therapists.
March is Celebrate Social Work Month. Appreciate the work social workers do for older adults and the family caregiver.
The third annual Falls Prevention Awareness Day on September 23 is a great reminder for the older adults in your life. Make sure a thorough review of their place of living is performed on the bathroom, bedroom, and kitchen. See an excellent room to room checklist by the American Physical Therapy Association. Fear of falling vs being more [...]
July 26 is the celebration of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. The idea of celebrating American freedom twice in July is highlighted in a recent community column in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel titled ADA’s Birthday: Freedom at 20. Flags can fly on this day, too. See all the facts about the Americans [...]
Here is a replay of a comment made to the LinkedIn group, The Elder Care Network, in a discussion on the merits of the two types of medical alert systems. And I will do it using the simplest of terms. Both types (purchase and monthly fee) of medical alert systems (“help I’ve fallen”) have a valuable role to play. [...]
The long holiday weekend celebrating the Fourth of July is recognition of the efforts of our founding fathers 234 years ago. They took steps into a giant unknown when declaring independence. Aging grandparents and parents have a similar challenge, but on a personal level. After years of living their lives as they wanted to, the effects of age [...]