Planning & Prevention Category

How to Take Care of Parents: Closing Skill Gaps Family caregivers ask the question, “how to take care of parents?” Being a family caregiver is like being an innocent victim in a Stephen King horror film. You know something unexpected is about to happen, but you don’t know what it is or ho...

Managing geriatric health and using care management is beneficial to the care of aging parents, spouses, and loved ones. Care managers who specialize in caring for older adults are a specialty in the field of geriatric health. Care management expertise is priceless when the family is not availa...

Part of retirement is the goal of avoiding health declines. It is said that "when you slow down, you die,"  Avoiding health declines after retirement can be like having another job. The job is to remain physically and mentally active and to remain as independent as possible. Most older adults ...

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,...

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: ...

  Are baby boomers creating the next financial crisis for the healthcare system? Will they live too long and demand too much care? The news during the past decade has illustrated challenges not experienced in years: unemployment, the loss of health care benefits, bank failures, the mortgage cr...

Chronic pain results in psychological and emotional problems. Being proactive and investigating alternate therapies may offer benefit and hope. ...

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 fl...

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 expectation...