Empowered Caregiving: Caring For Difficult, Toxic Parents
The start of a new year can be the perfect time to re-evaluate your approach to caregiving. What’s working. What’s not. Maybe you’re burning the candle at both ends, managing your own children and the care of your aging parent. Maybe your elderly parent’s...
What You Need to Know About Navigating Funding for Elderly Care
If you are in your 70’s and are asking this question, it may be too late! The optimal time for planning for care during your senior years is 20 or 30 years earlier. When you consider that 75% of those over 65 will need some type of long-term care, then it is time to...
Tips for Managing Caregivers in Your Home
People with experience will tell you that there are many challenges having a caregiver in your home. Let’s consider the following: Oftentimes it feels like your home and privacy are being invaded Caregivers watch TV and/or remain on their phones Caregivers don’t...
How a Care Manager Can Help During Crisis
Life for you and your family can change instantly with a medical, psychological, or physical crisis. Proactive planning today will ease the burden of stress and quick decision making that will fall on your shoulders when a critical situation occurs. You may not be...
Civil Rights Victory During COVID for those with Special Needs
We are pleased that the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has made clear that federal law requires facilities such as hospitals and state agencies to modify their policies so that people with special needs, including seniors...
Walking the Line With COVID Consciously
It seems like ages ago when we lived our lives without fear of going to the grocery store, cleaners, dinner with friends, or to work in our offices. I remember that time with great nostalgia and longing. But alas, life has taken an unexpected turn. “We are all in this...
OUTBREAK: Sharing Thoughts About The Coronavirus/COVID-19
All of us have watched in amazement as the events of the spreading coronavirus disease manifests itself throughout the world! Hand sanitizer has vanished, food is flying off shelves, our savings are melting away, and many of us fear how its spread will affect...
5 Reasons to Work With a Care Manager Advocate
Care Managers are health care professionals such as nurses, social workers, and counselors, who are experts in assisting families to manage the care needs of a family member. A Care Manager can be a worthwhile addition in detecting the status of an individual and...
Boomer Power
America has never been ready for us! As we came of age in the 60’s and 70’s, our voices were heard in politics, science, societal norms, philanthropy, and loudly from an economic prospective. We have created a paradigm shift in our world. Think Microsoft, Apple, a...
Managing the Guilt Terrain
Being a caregiver is a ride on a slippery slope. For those of us placed in that role, the emotional toll can be extraordinary. Often, we do not realize how badly we feel unless we stop for a moment and assess exactly what our body and mind is telling us. Sometimes...