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Quick Start: 6 Tips for Talking With Aging Parents About Senior Care

September 13, 2018

If your’re unsure how to initiate this delicate conversation with your aging parents, this new article from Benchmark Senior Living, is a “quick start” based on my work and experience in communicating with olde adults. It offers an overarching view…

Healthy Eighty-Something Parents Don’t Want To Talk About It

August 27, 2018

Of course the “it” is about moving at some point out of their home. The adult children want to get a head star at investigation senior living options with their parents before new accommodations are actually needed, But attempts to…

Sorting Out Aging Parent’s Situations and Issues: Start With A Graphic Overview of “All The Moving Parts”

August 20, 2018

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…

When despair for the world grows in me…

August 16, 2018

The title of this blog is the first line from a Wendell Berry poem. He is without question one of my favorite modern poets. I chose this stanza because caregiving has it share of despair as events and outcomes do…

Common Pitfalls In Caregiving: Forgetting The Person You UsedTo Be

August 8, 2018

Caring for aging parents is a consumptive role that requires compassion and resilience to keep everything together. Ironically, it’s also a role where often positive feedback is more the exception than the rule while negative feedback flows freely from aging…

New PDF Booklet: Caregiver Decision Fatigue

July 27, 2018

This “must read” article for caregivers outlines the synergistic complexity and uncertainty that dilemmas and family systems interject into all aspects of a caring for aging parents. As important, the article offers practical strategies caregivers can readily adopt to better…

When “Little Changes” Cause Everything To Fall Apart

July 26, 2018

There are no “little” changes in the world of aging parents. Any action, throwing out old magazines, scheduling an appointment without telling them, or not including a sibling in what seems a minor decision can trigger a temporary system shut…

Three Complimentary PDF Booklets by David Solie

July 6, 2018

These three booklets have proven useful to professionals and laypeople alike. Together, they offer a preview of the unique challenges of caring for aging parents, insights into the unspoken but all consuming psychological agenda of the last phase of life…

PDF Booklet: Unlocking the Communication Code of Seniors

June 21, 2018

This foundational article is now available in a PDF booklet that can be shared family members, colleagues, clients and anyone who is involved with older adults. Just use the order form below to obtain your complimentary copy The single biggest…

All Caregivers Need A “Nutritious Friend”

June 10, 2018

Definition: Nutritious Friend 1. They are always happy to see you. 2. They always want to know what’s happening in your life. 3. They have no plans to “change” of “fix” you, ever. If you have a nutritious friend in…