Precious Cargo – Your Life, Your Treasures, Your Home
Are you an older adult knowing you need to move but are overwhelmed by all that has to be accomplished to make this happen? Are you an adult child watching your parent struggle to remain at home and you’re wondering if there is a better solution? We’ve been helping individuals and families assess current needs [...]
Your Perspective Differs from Your Loved One Receiving Care
Often we find ourselves in situations and we wonder how we got there. We all fall into ruts, become stubborn and set in our ways; it’s part of life. The challenge is when we become responsible for or a caregiver for a loved one. This is one time in life where flexibility and understanding the other [...]
Caregiving:Defining Relationships, Setting Boundaries and Managing Change
Caregivers come in different varieties – those who over commit, who’ve place themselves in impossible situations because they thought the time commitment would be an hour or two a week, suddenly it’s turned into a full time job — adult children who suddenly become caregivers after years of an unbalanced or non-existent parental relationship – [...]
What Do You Know About Dying?
Care at the end of life, whether it’s hospice or palliative care, isn’t talked about. Your doctor will rarely mention it unless death is imminent. Society doesn’t talk about death because in general we fear it. There are two disciplines, palliative and hospice care, that make all the difference when your loved one is experiencing [...]
Caregivers – Leave the Past Behind Along With Your Expectations
I visited with a son this week who went to see his mother and reported that the visit was “unpleasant” because she couldn’t hold a conversation or remember much. His mother has memory loss. Caregivers cannot expect their loved ones with memory loss to be in the same physical or mental space that they were [...]
Care Community Staff Requires Oversight
How many individuals rush to place their loved one in a care community where staff seem welcoming and excited to have your loved one? After the move-in all of this changes and you’re wondering what happened. This is a common occurrence. No matter what type of community, the care of your loved one requires continual oversight. [...]
Don’t Argue with Medicaid
Filing for Medicaid can be complicated and stressful. There’s a great deal of information required with a high level of detail. It’s important not only to make the best effort to file an accurate application but to respond in a timely manner to any requests for additional information. Understanding that this may likely be a [...]
Adult Day Center May Prevent or Delay Community Placement
When some people hear the word adult day care or adult day centers they think child care. This perception is far from the truth. An adult day center may be just the bridge you need to prevent or delay your loved one from moving to a care community. Imagine having 12 hours to yourself at least [...]
If You Like Your Insurance You Can Keep It
How many of us remember President Obama making this statement? It’s a statement that will likely be proven as false. Corporations, looking at the healthcare reform bill, are realizing it’s less expensive to pay a $2,000 penalty per employee than pay more to provide health insurance for the employee and their family. So, if you [...]
Family Disagreements About Care
Are you a family who disagrees about the care of your parent or a loved one? Most families who disagree don’t have all the facts. One person does this, another that, there’s little or no cohesive communication about day to day tasks or abilities. It’s easy to disagree about the care of a loved one when you [...]
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