Tips on Organizing Medical Information for the Elderly When adult children step in to help their elderly parents manage their lives, there’s a lot of new medical information that needs to be organized and accessible. From prescriptions and home care assistance to health history and current allergies, an elderly parent’s health history needs to be…
How Can You Make Visits with Your Senior Productive as a Long-Distance Caregiver? When you’re a long-distance family caregiver, visits with your senior may feel way too short. Depending on how often you’re able to visit, you may need to do everything that you can in order to make the most of those visits. Keep…
How Do You Shop for a Parent Who Hates to Cook? Your mom’s tired of cooking. She hates preparing meals now that she’s retired. Since then, she’s taken to ready-to-heat meals, takeout, and packaged foods like yogurt. You’re helping her with finances and household planning, but you’re stuck. How do you shop for a parent…
Fire Prevention Checklist: The Kitchen One of the most important things that you do for your aging loved one as their family caregiver is help to keep them safe. While you might think of this in terms of their challenges and limitations, it is vital that you also keep in mind other risks that they…
How Do You Ask for Help and Could You Improve Your Method? Sometimes the reason that you’re not getting the help that you need as a caregiver is that your approach is slightly off. Try these ideas to tweak your methods. Guilt Doesn’t Work. Think about your own response when someone tries to use guilt…
Using the DASH Diet to Lower Your Parent’s Blood Pressure If your parent has been diagnosed with high blood pressure, their doctor may have advised them to follow the DASH diet to help reduce and manage their blood pressure. You might be left wondering what the DASH diet is and how difficult it will be…
Tips for Reducing Fall Injury Risk for Seniors with Osteoporosis Osteoporosis affects millions of people throughout the United States and the statistics of those seniors suffering from severe injuries as a result of the bone weakness caused by the condition are staggering. On average, four out of every five men over the age of 50,…
What is Glaucoma? Glaucoma is an eye condition that harms the optic nerve and causes vision loss. It is typically caused by too much pressure in the eye. When left untreated, glaucoma can even cause total blindness. In fact, it is the leading cause of blindness in people over the age of 60. When vision…
How Can You Make Urinary Incontinence Less Embarrassing for Your Aging Adult? Urinary incontinence issues can be symbolic of other issues, such as a loss of independence or simply losing control in general. For this reason, your elderly family member might be experiencing a far larger range of emotions about incontinence than you realize. Here…
What Can You Do if Your Aging Adult Has a Problem Managing Their Anger? Being a family caregiver for a senior family member who has an anger management issue might seem like an impossible task. Figuring out where your boundaries lie and learning how to enforce them can be really helpful in this situation. Set…