Tag: caring for your aging parents

6 Ways to Protect your Family from the Flu

Caring home healthcare nurse gives vaccine or medicine injection to senior adult patient at home, clinic, or nursing home setting. She holds the syringe and wears protective gloves. The African descent woman happily receives the shot while sitting in her comfy recliner.

  6 Ways to Protect your Family from the Flu To some, the fall season is a time to decorate their homes with pumpkins and Halloween lights, to others it is about the leaves falling in their yards, raking leaves and drinking cider by the fire.

Keeping In Touch Solutions Provides Assistance to Caregivers for Aging Parents

Three months ago, my friend’s father suffered a debilitating stroke. After spending a few weeks in the hospital, he was transferred to a nursing home where the family was told that he would never recover enough to go home. Before my friend, Nancy, could accept that devastating news, her mother began to experience heart problems.

Aging Parents Making Memories with Their Favorite Holiday Stories and Movies

  Aging Parents Making Memories with Their Favorite Holiday Stories and Movies Stories have been told and created for centuries. From Stone Age carvings on stones to today

Senior Hunger and Malnutrition: True or False?

Senior Hunger and Malnutrition You heard and watched it on TV, skinny kids with huge tummies and without nutritional food outside the United States. Are you shocked to read about senior hunger and malnutrition in our country?

6 Ways to Protect your Family from the Flu

6 Ways to Protect your Family from the Flu To some, the fall season is a time to decorate their homes with pumpkins and Halloween lights, to others it is about the leaves falling in their yards, raking leaves and drinking cider by the fire.

How to Plan Ahead for the Conversations With Your Aging Parents

None of us grew up thinking that one day we might have to care for our aging parents. Along with our own sets of commitments and responsibilities, many of us (especially between the ages of 35-55) are seeing the need to give a helping hand to our aging parents or grandparents.