3 Elder Care Secrets Every Caregiver Needs to Know In each state, there is a wide array of long term care facilities that elderly individuals can choose from—each one specializing in different types of care services. However, more and more older adults are looking into growing older in their own...
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Caregiver Cruise: Send a Caregiver on the Caregiver Smile Cruise
Caregiver Cruise I wrote the following for healthcare CEOs suggesting that they may want to sponsor a caregiver to go on Caribbean conference / cruise next January. In fact, anyone who wants to start a campaign for a deserving caregiver can do so following a template that I started and...
Social Isolation – A Growing Epidemic Among Seniors (Video)
Social Isolation – A Growing Epidemic Among Seniors (reprinted from my HuffPost50 Blog) According to the AARP, 51 percent of people over 75 live alone. Twenty-six percent face an increased risk of death due to subjective feeling of loneliness. More than 8 million adults age 50 and older are affected...
5 Reasons Why You Should Understand Caregiver Stress (Video)
5 Reasons Why You Should Understand Caregiver Stress Caregiver stress – a topic often left unspoken, particularly with the emotions involved. Most especially for family caregivers, with guilt and confusion settling in when the line of duty and personal time seems to blur. As such, identifying several reasons on why...
5 Reasons Why You Should Understand Caregiver Stress
5 Reasons Why You Should Understand Caregiver Stress Caregiver stress – a topic often left unspoken, particularly with the emotions involved. Most especially for family caregivers, with guilt and confusion settling in when the line of duty and personal time seems to blur. As such, identifying several reasons on why...
Social Isolation – A Growing Epidemic Among Seniors
Social Isolation – A Growing Epidemic Among Seniors (reprinted from my HuffPost50 Blog) According to the AARP, 51 percent of people over 75 live alone. Twenty-six percent face an increased risk of death due to subjective feeling of loneliness. More than 8 million adults age 50 and older are affected...
LGBT Seniors – New Report Shows The Population is Growing
LGBT Seniors – Population Surge The journal The Gerontologist released the largest national survey to date focused on the health and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender LGBT seniors. The issue, titled “Aging with Pride: National Health, Aging, and Sexuality/Gender Study (NHAS),” provides cutting edge research, drawing upon the...
Caregiving Infographic from Across the Pond
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Facing Elder Care Decisions: 5 Things to Know When Mom Needs Help
Facing Elder Care Decisions – Five Things to Know – From Sixty and Me In my recent HuffPost50 article, I wrote about things to look for when visiting older relatives during the holidays. For many, the holidays are one of the few times during the year when you get to...
Managing Caregiver Burnout – Caregiving from Burden to Opportunity
5 Tips for Avoiding Caregiver Burnout Are you a family caregiver to a loved one? Many are. In fact, nearly 40 million Americans are caregivers. Six in 10 are employed while juggling caregiving. And a surprising 25% of family caregivers are Millennials. Many suffer caregiver burnout. The Eliza Foundation has...