One Good Day
In the end, caregivers accept the limits of what they can control while making the best of what remains—a shift in focus to one good day at a time.
Honoring the here and now offers a nurturing space for aging…
Clinical Frailty Scale and Timed Up & Go
TUG and CFA are two important tools that help clinicians and laypersons alike assess frailty in older adults. Frailty status impacts the type and degree of healthcare, support services and living accommodations, Below are links to each assessment tool…
The Dreaded Outcome Boomers Never Envisioned
Nursing homes are one of the top three dreaded outcomes that Boomers fear the most. The other two are Alzheimer’s disease and cancer, a trifecta of destinies they hope to be spared from at the end of life. While none…
Is the doctor a “good fit” for an aging parent?
Navigating the healthcare system involves dealing with a wide range of physicians and support personnel. Not all physician partnerships are successful.
Issues like difficulty reaching the doctor, hurried office visits, confusing medical jargon, limited explanations, and inefficient billing support can…
End of the road: Doctors need to begin the conversation much earlier
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This article from BCC.com highlights the need for doctors to begin the end of life conversations much earlier in the process to help their patients cope with this unavidabe reality and, as important, find out what’s…
Another Caregiver Dilemma: Aging Parent Kicked Out Of Assisted Living Residence
Fact: Caregiving dilemmas beget new caregiving dilemmas. Just when you have succeeded in placing an aging parent in an assisted living residence and things are working out, a change in “health status” suddenly disqualifies him or her from staying there. …
Sorting Out Aging Parent’s Situations and Issues: Start With A Graphic Overview of “All The Moving Parts”
In our work with older adults and their families, we find that a graphic overview (aka mind map)of the “moving parts” of their situation or issue helps everyone better understand its context as well as possible steps that could be…
Resist Punitive Perfection
Pointing out errors of memory or cognition to our aging parents proves nothing…Period…We all will suffer the same fate when we are firmly in their shoes and we will equally resent being called out for something we can’t control…Instead of…
The Unavoidable Dilemmas of the Last Phase of Life
Dilemmas are messy, confusing, threatening, no-win situations where choices have to be made.
Dilemmas dominate the last phase of life and extract a heavy toll on the entire family.
The link below offers a short summary of the important differences…
This is what love looks like…
This is what love looks like across war, sickness, separation and finally death…none of those afflictions of life on earth were a match for the fierce and profound love these two veterans carried in their hearts and in their actions…talk…