Medication Risks Greater After Age 65
Your doctor may not even be aware they are prescribing medications that place you, the older adult, at risk unless they know about the Beers Criteria which is a result of research performed on medications that indicate high risk for older adults. Check out the list for yourself by doing some research and ask your [...]
When Until Death Do Us Part No Longer Means Anything
The general public seems to accept divorce when it occurs in the young but when parents, especially older parents divorce the tragedy often affects grown children. More and more frequently divorce between older adult parents results from health care issues. One parent is ill and the other does not wish to have their entire retirement [...]
Moving Your Parents Once — Not Twice – Part 2
There are many types of different communities for older adults ranging from little or no care to twenty four hour care. These include: active retirement communities, gated communities of care, independent living, independent with services, assisted living, personal care homes, memory care, long term care/nursing homes, respite communities and hospice. It is important to assess [...]
Moving Your Parents Once — Not Twice – Part 1
In my weekly radio program, Parenting your Parents (www.parentingyourparentsradio.com), adult children frequently call to express frustration that they moved their parents or that their parents have moved only to be faced with having to move again. Why does this occur? The need to move parents again often occurs because individuals or families did not consider [...]
When Relationship Difficulties Prevent Care Planning – Part 2
If, on the other hand, both parents are in denial then the burden of initiating the conversation falls on you. It is slightly easier if you have been involved in the care needs of your parents because you have direct experience and understand their needs. You can also mention that as their care needs increase [...]
When Relationship Difficulties Prevent Care Planning – Part 1
Are your parents at the point where the need for help is no longer optional? Have you talked to them about the subject and received a cold shoulder from one or both? Relationship difficulties are often at the root of challenges in accepting or discussing the need for care. These challenges exist not only between [...]
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