Moving
Avoiding the Moving Blues
Relocating can be difficult for people at any age. For seniors it can be extra challenging, or even life threatening depending upon the situation. This post will focus on moves whose catalyst was to provide a little more support for someone currently living independently. This could mean moving from a home to an independent living [...]
Great Caregiving Resources to Recommend to a Friend
We’re always looking for the best resources on the Web that can help the busy, perhaps harried, caregiver do what they need to do with confidence and compassion, while maintaining a balance in life. Sometimes it’s not easy. One thing working in our favor is that we do have the Internet and its abundance of [...]
Breaking Bad News to Elderly Parents
Recently I had to break the news to my parents about the death of my brother. While it was a difficult experience to face, I knew I had to do it so I didn’t put it off. It was a relief that I didn’t muck it up and my parents handled it well. It got [...]
Some Great Alzheimer’s Resources
SHF is not a site specifically dedicated to Alzheimer’s. There are many great sites that cover the topic. The most obvious is the Alzheimer’s Association site. And anyone with average Internet search abilities can find a good number of resources online. What we wanted to cover here are some of the gems you may not [...]
How to Help a Caregiver
There’s much said about caregivers’ need for support, but it’s often difficult to know how to help a caregiver when they need it. The tips here approach caregiver help from the perspective of the caregiver’s helper. You may have already offered to help a caregiver, but not yet been asked. Often caregivers have many reasons [...]
A Simple Way for a Caregiver to Save Money
We ran across The Caregiver’s Marketplace a while back and wondered if it was worth the effort. After looking into it, I think that depending upon your financial situation, it could very well be a help to the everyday household budget. The Caregiver’s Marketplace is a rebate program for a good number of products that [...]
How do you pay for respite care?
Respite care is the provision of short-term, temporary relief to those who are caring for family members who might otherwise require permanent placement in a facility outside the home. Unfortunately there is no default easy way to find funds for respite care. Much of it depends on your unique situation. This post will focus on [...]
Teach a Friend How to Recognize a Stroke
We posted before in, “Transient Ischemic Attacks (TIAs): Heed the Warning“, on TIA and stroke symptoms and now we bring you an additional way to help determine if someone is having a stroke. The following is an email that periodically makes the rounds in email…that’s true. This might be a lifesaver if you can remember [...]
So, What Can We Flush Down the Toilet?
When I was a kid, flushing things down the toilet was good sport. Of course I was five at the time. Today it seems as though just about nothing, save the obvious, can be flushed. The concern over flushing prescription meds down the drain was amplified last year when the drinking water in 24 major [...]
Hoarding and the Elderly
In an earlier post (“Fall Prevention” posted by lmcgowan on January 14, 2009), I provided readers with an overview of the many risk factors associated with falls in the elderly and a list of things they can do to prevent such falls. As we learned in that post, clutter can be a real concern. According [...]