What steps should you take if your mother is resistant or doesn’t want assisted living? An aging and increasingly infirm parent can be a challenging reality to face. It can be a difficult issue to confront and acknowledge – that the woman you used to depend upon...
Your parents worked so hard to give you a comfortable, happy life growing up. They are the two people that cared for you and anticipated all your needs more than anyone else in your life. To think about these two capable, loving, caring people being unable to care...
You may have noticed something like this: your elderly mother, who would never be seen in public anything less than impeccably groomed, doesn’t bother to get her hair and nails done anymore. Maybe your loved one seems to forget things more than they used to, or maybe...
Focusing on Increasing Wellness in Assisted Living If we were to ask the question – has medical science increased the human life span – the answer would be an unequivocal yes! People do in fact live much longer than they used to just decades ago. However, if were to...
When you hear the word ‘malnutrition’ you tend to think about starving kids in sub-Saharan Africa or famine in a third-world nation. You don’t think about malnutrition in connection with your own loved one. It is difficult to envision an older adult from a prosperous...
Remember how you bought and filled that smart little pill organizer with all the separate little boxes in it with the names of the week and the morning, afternoon, evening, and night doses for dad? And how you often checked that many of those little boxes were still...
