Planning & Prevention Category
Planning and Prevention – Just as we don’t expect to age, we don’t plan to age. Unexpected events occur to our parents, to us the unexpected event results in an immediate need for action. What happens when parents live thousands of miles away? What happens when we’re single and have no one we can rely on to help us when we need care? Preventative measures related to our health and planning relating to our care offer the best opportunity for us to remain independent. How many of us will plan? How many of us will become an unexpected event and a care responsibility for a family member or loved one?
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Avoiding Nursing Home Placement: Practical Tips to Support Older Adults to Remain in Their Home
By Pamela D Wilson CSA, CG, MS, BS/BA
Avoiding nursing home placement and remaining in the family home is the desire of many older adults. Many older adults have lived in their homes for 20, 30, or more years and cannot imagine moving. However, many older adults have not planned appropriately, cons...
Infectious Diseases
Dr. Saud Omer, Assistant Professor of Global Health at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health(podcast 9:03 playing time)Click the Play button below to listen:
Effects of Persistent Pain
Chronic pain results in psychological and emotional problems. Being proactive and investigating alternate therapies may offer benefit and hope.
Don’t Neglect your Feet – They’re the Only Pair You Have
Our feet are two of the most important body parts we have. They carry us wherever we want to go, yet many of us give them the least amount of attention, especially when we become older. Only when feet hurt or prevent us from walking easily do we give them proper attention.
As we age our flexibi
Making Plans for Aging Parents
Most parents don’t want to burden their children when it comes to the provision of care in their later years if they were responsible for the care of their parents. Other parents expect their children to care for them personally and financially. The only way to balance these expectations is
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Retirement: When You Slow Down, You Die (Family)
My Aunt Zos was an amazing woman; full of energy and spunk. She worked in an office doing what— I don’t recall. What I do recall, at my very young age of 5, is that she was always coming and going. She never seemed to stop. She played the piano, danced, attended social events, had many friends,
Baby Boomers Creating the Next Financial Crises
The news during the past decade has illustrated challenges not experienced in years: unemployment, the loss of health care benefits, bank failures, the mortgage crises resulting in and families losing their homes and companies going out of business. Whether or not you agree with the political side o
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