Driving and Your Aging Parent Driving is one of the rights often associated with independence and freedom. Giving up the right due to physical or mental impairments can be very difficult for the elderly. Helping your loved one stay safe behind the wheel and knowing when it’s time to look for alternative transportation is an…
What Can You Do When an Interaction with Your Loved One Who Has Dementia Isn’t Going Well? Sometimes you can do everything right with your loved one and yet she reacts in a way that you don’t expect at all when you’re interacting with her. This can be especially unpredictable if your loved one has…
The Importance of Knowing Family Health History Being a family caregiver for your aging loved one means ensuring that they are getting all of the care, support, and assistance that they need at all times to live the highest quality of life possible as they age in place. This arrangement is also a way to…
Healthy Vision Month May is Healthy Vision Month, a national eye health observance established by the National Eye Institute in May of 2003. It was created in order to bring attention to the fact that millions of Americans have undiagnosed eye problems. There are several diseases that affect those over the age of 60. In…
Helping your Aging Parent with Vision Loss Four common eye diseases often affect the elderly and can result in loss of or low vision. These include glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and cataracts. This type of vision loss cannot be regained with glasses, contacts or surgery and often results in the decreasing ability to perform…
How to Find the Right Incontinence Products for Your Elderly Loved One To help your loved one manage incontinence properly, finding the right products is essential. There are a ton of them available now, which is both good and bad. You’ll have quite a bit of choice, so take your time and keep these factors…
Tips for Allowing Your Partner to be a Valuable Source of Support During Your Care Journey s a family caregiver one of the difficulties that you are likely to face is caregiver stress. This comes from feelings of having too much to do and not enough time, energy, or resources to do them, or as…
How to Start Seeing the Glass as Half Full When it Comes to Caregiving Caregiving is a wonderful experience, but it can sometimes leave you feeling pessimistic as a caregiver. One way around that is to work on ways to switch your mindset around and to embrace optimism instead. Think about Situations in Which You’re…
What May Your Senior Face in the Third Stage of Parkinson’s Disease? The third stage of Parkinson’s disease is considered the middle point to the progression of this disease. This is the stage at which the symptoms and challenges that your aging parent will face will become marked, and they will need additional support. Though…
Family Vacations Don’t Have to Be Stressful When You’re Caring for an Aging Parent Now is often the time when families begin planning summer vacations. For those who may be caring for an elderly loved one, such as a parent, they may have questions about what they can actually do for their vacation. Some people…