Elder Care Articles
1: Top 10 Tips For Traveling By Air With An Elderly Parent
Have you traveled with your elderly parent or parents when they were frustrated, overtired, and stressed? Here are ten ways to achieve a safe and joyful air travel experience with your elderly parent.
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2: Latest Scam Can Steal Your Parents -- and Your Inheritance -- From You
Don't let crooks take advantage of your aging parents. You can takes steps to protect them -- and yourself.
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3: Tips for Passing Along Family Values
Tips for Baby Boomers on passing along family values for the next generation.
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4: Role Reversal - When Parents Resist
Roles change as parents age. Children often see role reversal in that they become the parent and their parents revert to childlike behaviors. This article discusses options when parents need yet resist care.
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5: Older Adult Substance Abuse: Your Spouse, Your Parent, Yourself
Substance abuse occures among 17% of the age 60 and older group. This number is expected to double by 2020 as the baby boom generation ages.
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6: Planning For Aging Parents
The costs of care for parents, especially if they have not planned ahead, can be expensive and often the children bear financial responsiblity.
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7: Five Things You Must Do When Traveling With Older Parents
Traveling with your parents can be a wonderful experience if you plan well ahead.
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8: Aging, Elder Care, and Senior Retirement Centers
More and more elders are taking a closer look at senior retirement centers as the preferred choice over living with an adult child. The result can be a win/win situation.
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9: Are You Drowning in Caregiving?
Most adult children fall into caregiving as a result
of an incident that placed their elder in a crisis situation. After the dust settles and reality sets in, often we realize that our lives have changed and this change is often not welcomed.
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10: Insurance: Long Term Nightmare
Recent legislation in Congress may make it even more difficult for seniors to qualify for government-paid long-term care coverage. If you don't take action now, you may be setting you and your family up for a Long Term Nightmare!
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11: How Retirement Community Apartments Are Becoming Popular With Senior Citizens
Retirement community apartments for senior citizens are very good options for many people who has already retired and want to enjoy life in their golden years. This is a good alternative for them to retain their independence while relieving the burden of caring for themselves. This article provide more details about retirement community apartments and how they are gaining popularity with seniors.
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12: Home Stairlifts - How to Select the Right Domestic Lift
Is it difficult for you to climb up the stairs? And every time you have to go down you are afraid to fall? Then you have to choices - to move downstairs or to install a home stairlift. Domestic stair lifts has their own advantages and disadvantages - find out if a stairlift will be right for your home.
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13: Visiting Someone in the Hospital: 14 Helpful Tips
Visiting someone in the hospital doesn't have to be awkward and uncomfortable. Real people share what makes a difference to them when someone visits.
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14: Provide For Your Funeral Costs With Burial Insurance
Most of us avoid talking about death and funerals but the fact is that there are funeral costs to be borne and in the event one has not provided for it, the family has to undertake the expense. Funeral costs are not only a matter of affordability but of timing as well.
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15: The Benefits Of Exercise For Seniors
Fact is as we grow older, we need to keep in shape more than the younger generation. With age the capabilities of the entire body system, muscles, organs, and mind, deteriorate and need more care than before.
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16: The Guide To Selecting and Finding Caregivers For People With Alzheimer's
It can be difficult to find the right caregiver for someone that you are taking care of. Finding and choosing the right caregiver can really make a big difference in the life of an elderly person that you are taking care of. This guide will help you know what questions to ask.
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17: Monster Terrorizes Elderly Couple
They were both subject to memory loss and other deficiences associated with aging. They repeatedly mentioned something about a monster.
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18: Have a Healthy Senior Life with These Tips
The Sixty Year Old Personality Benjamin Franklin once said that all would live long, but none would be old. What should we actually expect of ourselves after sixty years? Must we eventually become senile and mentally old, or can we have a long life and still remain alert and bright with opinions others respect?
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19: Parenting: Thought You Were Finished
Baby boomers while raising their children are finding that they are also caring for their parents.
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20: On-Line Support Groups for Caregivers and Older Adults
Many individuals lack support through the aging years, whether they are children of aging parents or the aging parents themselves. On-line support groups are a convenient option to meet social and support needs for this population.
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21: You Can Return Home -- The Ruby Slippers
Many older adults due to an accident or health issue are placed in nursing homes for rehabilitation and never leave. Not because they can't, but because they become lost in a system that promotes long term care. You can return home, learn how.
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22: Top 10 Reasons Older Adults Leave Home for Institutionalized Care - Don't Be One of Them
Not taking medications properly and poor nutrition are only two reasons why older adults leave home for instutionalized care either voluntarily or involuntarily. Learn more about what you can do to make sure you remain at home according to your wishes.
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23: The Complete Parent Care Guide
Family care giving is an increasing phenomenon as the aging population grows. In the US one in four families cares for the sick, disabled and persons over 50 years of age.
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24: Do You Know What to Do About Arthritis?
Discover useful, practical methods of obtaining relief from the most common type of arthritis.
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25: Elderly Man Burglarized By Gas Company Criminal
The elderly have always been victims and targets of crime.
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