Selling Your Home in a Rough Economy by Margot McClelland In the state of our economy, selling your home is tough. Even relatively stable markets, like Austin Real Estate, are suffering — and, regrettably, economists forecast a dreary future for real estate in the months to come. If your loved one would like to downsize [...]
When caring for your aging parent or loved one becomes overwhelming and you need a break, or when extra help is needed with bathing, feeding, dressing, household duties or if caring for them yourself is just not possible anymore, selecting an in-home health care provider is a good alternative. Proper screening is essential to ensure that the [...]
Caring for a loved one can involve many things from one end of the spectrum to the other: supervision, feeding, bathing, dressing, help with toileting, bill paying, transportation, medication administration, shopping, errand running, mental stimulation and/or medical treatments such as monitoring of certain blood levels, administration of oxygen, etc are all a part of caregiving. But [...]
I’m sure you’ve heard the statistics before: 60% of those persons who suffer from Alzheimer’s will wander at some point in their disease process; 92% of those persons with autism tend to wander. Those are very scary statistics. How can we be sure that they will be found AND found in time? This afternoon I [...]
For the past couple of weeks, I have been participating in a “blog challenge”. In this challenge, we accept the opportunity to to challenge ourselves to write a blog post on a certain schedule. Most of the participants have chosen to attempt to write a blog post every day but I chose to write one [...]
Someone Asked Me What I DO by Maryellen Kernaghan Someone recently asked me what I do. And I thought for a moment and answered “I am an elder-care coach”. Puzzled, they asked, “What is THAT”? “Someone”, I answered, “who works with the elderly, their family and their caregivers to help provide a network of support [...]
Having been a nurse for….well, let’s just say many years (PHEW), I know that it’s important to teach several important things about medication management that help a caregiver to administer a medication to their loved one safely and properly. Some of these things include: Taking the medication in the right dose Taking the medication at the right [...]
Dear Friends I am sorry I have been absent for some weeks – I am sorry I have not been as prolific as usual. Life happens, things get in the way….well….hmmm….. I do hope somebody missed me . A day or so ago, I wrote on Face Book that I was feeling sad. Just that. [...]
Respite Care: The Act of Looking Back Today’s guest post comes from SeniorsforLiving.com’s Michelle Seitzer. Before committing to life as a full-time freelance writer, Michelle spent 10 years in the senior living and advocacy world, serving in various roles at assisted living communities throughout Pennsylvania and Maryland, and leading the charge for Alzheimer’s as a [...]
“Staying Afloat in a Sea of Forgetfullness: Common Sense Caregiving” was written by Gary Joseph LeBlanc who was a primary caregiver for his own father who was stricken with Alzheimer’s Disease. Gary states that his goal was to write a book that was as “caregiver friendly” as possible and that is just what this book is. [...]
