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Not long ago, Nancy Beland wrote a great article about the risks that families take when they hire caregivers “privately”, meaning that the families either hire the caregivers themselves or else use a non-employer home care company. Although she has withheld the names of the parties involved, she tells the…
Do you know that more than half of all seniors over 85 have some form of cognitive impairment or dementia? That’s a scary thought for the elderly who live alone, and it’s even more frightening for those who care about them. A geriatric care manager and a durable power of…
Tiny print on prescription bottles, unreadable text on a spice jar, or even plastic tubes bearing two very different substances that happen to look alike are all potential problems for an aging relative with failing eyesight. Of course, substituting cinnamon for ground cloves or burn ointment for toothpaste may end…
Sometimes our culture’s technical ability to prolong life may exceed our individual ability to make hard choices under difficult circumstances. Although our culture traditionally treats this as an awkward or uncomfortable topic, the best time to make wise choices about what we want our last days to look like is…
