Tag: Senior Care
Home Is Where They Wanted to Be
What is home care? How does it work? And what impact can it have on the lives of older adults and their families? These are all important questions, and sometimes the best answers come from simply looking at one family’s story. Home care is, at its heart, about helping someone […]
Memory Issues and New Environments
Every day we have routines that we follow. We start the day with personal care, breakfast, and then to work. When we have a day off, this routine is broken and depending on the routines you have developed, you miss that routine. You can easily justify why the routine is […]
Aging: Learning to Cope with Change
Change is all around us. From the time we are young, we have constant change in our lives. It is the one constant we all have in our lives. Today we may have control over the change and tomorrow we may not. We can’t live without change so why is […]
Caregiving
Someone once said to me, ‘I prefer to be called a caregiver, not a caretaker. When I hear caretaker, I think of a funeral’. I have never given these two terms much thought and may have even used them interchangeably in the past. After some thought, I agreed. I want […]
Aging: Learning to Cope with Change
As published in the Reading Eagle, 50 Plus, on September 13, 2020 Change is all around us. From the time we are young, we have constant change in our lives. It is the one constant we all have in our lives. Today we may have control over the change and […]