Elder Care Cafe

Depending on their circumstances, it doesn’t usually take a long time before caregivers start to feel a little overwhelmed. As time goes by and the needs of the person or people they are caring for increase, the pressure to succeed as a caregiver begins to intensify. When someone is caring for more than one family [...]

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Deciding when to hire a 24 hour care service to take care of an aging loved one, isn’t always clear or easy. You most likely have a lot of concerns and due to the vast amount of misinformation available online getting the answers you need can be difficult. Today I’d like to help you if [...]

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Being in control of any situation is important to the successful outcome of the event; remaining calm, cool, and collected is a prerequisite to handling an unforeseen circumstance in the proper way.  If you enjoy working outdoors or inside on your favourite hobby make sure that you keep your work areas free from debris that [...]

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Guest Post: Having the right information on the best retirement home can help to live the rest of your life in peace and tranquility. One need to know how to research well to get the perfect one for them. When it comes to retirement there are different people who make different plans in advance. Some [...]

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I am very excited and grateful to announce that the Family Caregiving (Caring for Aging Parents) Kindle book is now live. It was a lot longer coming than I wanted, but sometimes life just gets in the way. This particular book is a combination of memoir and pertinent information that will be useful to anyone who [...]

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When a patient needs to stay connected to a medical professional around-the-clock, you must have a reliable call system in place that can be trusted to perform when the need arises.  You want a seamless installation process that doesn’t disrupt scheduling or the routines of your medical staff or patients who rely on a consistent [...]

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Family dynamics can be a complicated situation. Some families seem to have a loving, close-knit relationship with children who seem to grow to adulthood with little strife. On the other end of the spectrum are the families that have multiple problems, dysfunctional parents, and abused and damaged children. Many of us are somewhere in between. [...]

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As we age, life around us seems to slow down. When people take a look at our lifestyle, those of us in our late sixties to our nineties, it looks like we might have a peaceful, restful existence. Unfortunately, that isn’t always the case. We aging seniors also experience stress, although quite often a different [...]

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Beware this personal rant on a situation I have noticed more often the past couple of years. Not only are people aging, but so our the financial institutions we have lived with for decades. Unfortunately, they are not willing to change with the times and adjust to the fact that there is a growing number [...]

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Although many of us have heard of and used personal care items for years, the term personal care as it applies to aging seniors hasn’t been quite as well known until recently. I hadn’t heard of the term until the last year or two when we started looking into help with dad.  One of the [...]

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I’m a little ticked off today and I’m going to tell on someone because I think, as caregivers, we need to be aware of where abuse comes from and who it is aimed at. And, we need to try to nip it in the bud! A number of wonderful people in our life at this [...]

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In a previous post I wrote about caregiver abuse as it applies to the caregivers by the elderly. In this article I would like to address the issue of caregiver abuse towards the person they are caring for.  Caregiver abuse towards the elderly can also include neglect as well. Elder abuse tends to be more [...]

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Caregiver abuse is a problem in our society, but can take on two different scenarios – caregivers can be abused by the person they are caring for, and elders and others can be abused by their caregivers. A third scenario is when both are abusive to one another – the most toxic type of caregiver [...]

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Today I wanted to connect up with some of the caregiver forums I used to inhabit. What a surprising challenge that was! First of all, apparently not all of them are up and running any more. Others have changed their websites including the URL or the link goes to a dead end message. I started [...]

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I know this may seem like a strange question to ask on the 27th of February, but some of us are still in the throes of winter. In fact, here in Western Michigan, the land of the “lake effect storms” we received up to six inches of snow during yesterday afternoon and last night with [...]

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