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Social Fabric: The Key to Senior’s Quality of Life….

February 8, 2020

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.—Aristotle After completing one of these Social Fabric Mind Maps you can suggest and provide more recreational activities, social outreach, and other ways to provide social support…

Sibling Rules

February 3, 2020

It’s a fact of family life: roles are cut in stone. Stop trying to change a sibling who for the most part resents your audacity to assume you have the right to “fix’ him or her. Accurately assess what a…

Reframe the Connection Between Choices and Preserving Control

January 27, 2020

Practice the art of offering choices for both big and small items. What seems to be a trivial choice to adult children may be significant to aging parents whose choices are dwindling. Reframe the…

Solo Spousal Care

January 20, 2020

Solo caregiving takes a toll on both parties. What starts out as an act of compassion and loyalty can deteriorate into a role that exceeds the best efforts of one person. Reframing the situation from a new vantage point helps…

Magical Thinking

January 7, 2020

Feeling overwhelmed, aging parents may turn to magical thinking to solve problems. Like denial, it allows them a way to defer the complexity and burden of a problem. Opting to continue unsafe driving, ignoring financial limitations or rejecting help with…

Right Sizing My Encore Career

November 14, 2019

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions…….Stephen Covey After 30 years of public speaking, I am leaving the main stage and focusing my encore career on working with small study groups. I…

Sample from David Solie’s New Video: Introduction and Chapter One

October 26, 2019

This a sample from my new video: the introduction followed by a chapter entitled “The Phone Call.” This will give you a feel for the content, style and pacing. of the material. As all of us who have been caregivers…

Veiller Sur Mes Parents

October 9, 2019

Veiller Sur Mes Parents (Watch Over My Parents) is an innovative program in France that uses mail carriers to keep an eye on older adults as well as providing friendship to those who live alone. Here’s how they do it:…

Dancing with Dementia

September 19, 2019

Dementia recasts the memory landscape with people and events that never existed. We are both shocked and intrigued by what our aging parents are saying. Where did that come from we ask ourselves. And then there is the nagging question…

The One Thing We Possess Equally

September 2, 2019

According to the teachers, there is only one thing that all people possess equally. This is their loneliness. —Hyemeyohsts Storm The age wave brings with it red flag warnings about the increased threat of loneliness for older adults. Technology cannot…