How Do I Know if My Senior Is Getting Good Care at an Assisted Living Facility? Making the decision to transition your elderly loved one to an assisted living facility is never easy. Of course, you want to find a nursing home with friendly, professional, and...
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...
You probably have mixed feelings about moving mom/dad into assisted living. While you know they will be happier, safer and less lonely, it is also difficult to accept that this once vital person, brimming with energy and verve, now seems to need help. You probably...
If you’re used to thinking of your parent or other loved one as always being on top of things; a capable person that you and others have always relied upon, the idea of them growing old and infirm may be a little difficult to confront. The fact however is that...
