By Jody GastfriendVice President of Senior Care, Care.com and authorJuly 31, 2018 Credit: Adobe Stock (Excerpted from My Parent’s Keeper: The Guilt, Grief, Guesswork, and Unexpected Gifts of Caregiving by Jody Gastfriend. Copyright © 2018 by Jody Gastfriend. Excerpted by permission of Yale University Press. All rights reserved.) Providing caregiving for your parent is... read more →
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Credit: Adobe Stock When psychologist Barry Jacobs saw that his aging mother’s mental faculties were weakening and confronted her about it, the two of them began to argue. Despite being an expert on aging, Jacobs, a Springfield, Pa.-based clinical psychologist, author of The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers: Looking After Yourself... read more →
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Delirium often affects hospitalized seniors People with delirium often have terrifying hallucinations, delusions, and are unable to think or focus. In older hospital patients, delirium is often misdiagnosed as dementia. If that happens, they won’t get the right treatment and could even be sent to a nursing home. In an article... read more →
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A new book has legal, financial and psychological advice for families By Kenneth O. Doyle and Larry K. HoukAugust 6, 2018 Credit: Adobe Stock Editor’s note: This is an excerpt (with an introduction from the authors) from the bookPeace of Mind for Your Aging Parents: A Financial, Legal and Psychological Toolkit... read more →
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New research shows that being a caregiver has benefits By Melanie HaikenFrom Caring.com August 10, 2018 Credit: Adobe Stock Part of the TRANSFORMING LIFE AS WE AGE SPECIAL REPORT (Editor’s note: This post originally was published by Caring.com. ) We’ve all heard the advice: “Every man for himself,” “It’s a “dog-eat-dog world” or even “Nice... read more →
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Kerry Sherin American House, an independent and assisted living community in Michigan, recently brought virtual reality to seniors at their Riverview location, just south of Detroit, by partnering with nationwide virtual reality rental company virtualrealityrental.co. It's an exciting new concept among senior living executive directors and caregivers, who then are... read more →
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By Barbara Knickerbocker BeskindJanuary 25, 2016 Editor’s note: This article is part of Next Avenue’s 2015 Influencers in Aging project honoring 50 people changing how we age and think about aging. As an occupational therapist and someone in my early 90s, here’s what I recommend to age well: good posture and a brisk 30-minute... read more →
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The idea is not as crazy as it may seem, given the aging of the population By Steve OutingOctober 4, 2017 Credit: Courtesy of Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and AutomationThe Care-O-bot Part of the AGING AND INNOVATION SPECIAL REPORT Human relationships will never go out of style. But as robotics technology... read more →
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The balance between safety and privacy is a delicate one By Jeanette BeebeJune 22, 2018 Credit: Adobe Stock Part of the TRANSFORMING LIFE AS WE AGE SPECIAL REPORT At some point during her stay in the memory care wing of a large, long-term facility in Hamilton Township, N.J., Marie Tykarski started to... read more →
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By Julie PfitzingerSenior Editor for FeaturesMay 22, 2018 Credit: Adobe Stock Over the course of 30 years, Steve Leder has counseled hundreds of people facing all varieties of pain and suffering: death, injury, grave illness, estrangement, divorce and more. However, the senior rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles, who has twice... read more →