How To Say It To Seniors Archives - Page 7 of 23 - Aging, caregiving and the journey through the second half 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…

Communicating Tough Choices. Booklet (pdf)

June 6, 2018

Introduction At some point in the lives of our aging parents things slip out of control. It may be a subtle change over time that finally becomes unmanageable or the sudden arrival of a medical setback. As much as we…

Uninformed About The Agenda

May 29, 2018

You can You can assume that older adults have essentially the same needs and priorities as the rest of the adult population but in doing so, you will miss a never to be repeated opportunity to facilitate their final growth…

Critical Caregiver Communication Skills

May 13, 2018

This is a new series I created to help caregivers establish and sustain rapport with older adults…this is the first offering of the series.…

If I Die First…

May 10, 2018

Aging parents face an uneven future in which one will be left behind. FD Reeves’ poem “Home in Wartime” contains two elegant and inspiring stanzas of instructions for both possibilities… From “Home in Wartime” By FD Reeves If I die…

Disclosure for Adult Children

April 16, 2018

I receive a steady flow of inquires from adult children about what the future holds for them and their aging parents. Most of them sense some sort of tipping point is near and with it a turn of events where…

Inconvenient Eulogy

April 11, 2018

Inconvenient Eulogy by David Solie Even when things are going your way, Words don’t come easy on funeral day. Mourners turn up with guarded belief, Awaiting your words of pain and grief. But others arrive with their…

Resist Punitive Perfection

April 7, 2018

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…

Steady On…

April 4, 2018

Things periodically fall apart with our aging parents no matter how hard we try to avoid conflict. Stay calm and let these episodes have their moment and then pass on. There’s no time to hold a grudge or prove who’s…