We all have experienced the apparent frustration of talking with a senior about some issue related to that person needing to relinquish some form of their independence, (for example, speaking with your dad about giving up his car keys). Yet, if we look deep enough into such a dialogue between father and son over the [...]
Archive for September, 2009
“I am still OK to drive!” The independance issues.
Posted in Dealing with Aging Parents, Elder Care, Sandwich Generation on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Helping Elders Deal With Chronic Pain
Posted in Dealing with Aging Parents, Elder Care, Long Distance Caregiving on September 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We have all experienced pain: a broken finger, strep-throat, ingrown toe nail, or even a bad headache. The bad news with those examples of acute pain is – they hurt. The good news is that those types of pain do go away, and usually rather quickly.
But what about the other kind of pain: chronic pain? [...]
That day…9-11
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 9/11, firefighters, first responders, helping others on September 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It was one of those days that you just don’t forget.
Like the day John Kennedy was assassinated, the day that Bobby Kennedy was assassinated, the day that the shuttle Challenger exploded, the day Reagan was shot and the day that almost three thousand people were assassinated in the World Trade Center.
I was standing in front [...]
Helping Aging Loved Ones in Family Meetings
Posted in Dealing with Aging Parents, Elder Care, Long Distance Caregiving, tagged Add new tag, Dealing with Aging Parents, family meetings, senior care, Visiting Angels Phoenix on September 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Helping Your Elder Parents through Family Meetings
It is important to understand, as the author Rose Broyles (Chief Editor and Webmaster for http://www.caring-for-mom-and-dad.info) stated in her article Elder Care Issues – Having a Family Meeting, “First rule of thumb, don’t expect to have ANYTHING solved with 1, 2 or 200 meetings. Circumstances change, people change, feelings [...]
Labor Day Remembrances
Posted in Uncategorized on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Being just shy of medicare age I have more then a few Labor Days to look back upon. Before my mother moved her three kids and her mother to the west coast from Chicago to pursue a better life I remember spending late summers on Cedar Lake in Michigan. It was an idyllic time for [...]
How to Cope with Aging Parents
Posted in Dealing with Aging Parents, Elder Care, Long Distance Caregiving on September 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This was written by our founder and CEO Jeffery Johnson and is presented here to remind us all that we are not alone in dealing with our aging parents and that we need to stop and smell the coffee.
By: Jeffrey Johnson
Very few people relish the idea of getting older. The losses one must deal with [...]
