The high cost of caring for an aging relative
Almost 30 percent of Americans provide care for someone who is ill, disabled or aged according to the Family Caregiver Alliance.
Caregiver Support
Has technology prepared you for the role of caregiver?
Nearly forty percent of American adults provide care for sick or elderly relatives according to the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life project and those caregivers have become heavy technology users.
Caring for the caregiver
If you provide caregiving for a loved one, you probably have stress. It’s nothing to be ashamed of so those of you thinking right now that it doesn’t stress you out to care for Mom or Grandpa or your spouse don’t need to get your backs up. Ask any parent with a newborn kid. Do they love the kid? Absolutely. Are they getting enough sleep? Probably not.
When your parents outlive their savings
Usually wealth transfer goes down the generations, meaning that the older generations transfer wealth to younger generations. But the longer life the majority of our elders are living today means that a significant portion of them will outlive the resources they’ve set aside.
Planning for the cost of caring for parents
It costs a lot to have an uncovered medical expense but the expenses aren’t limited to only the individual that suffered the event.
Caregiver stress can add up to PTSD
Caregiver trauma can look like, talk like and act like PTSD even though it hasn’t received the same amount of notice.
Sibling rivalry makes caregiving even harder
If you thought sibling rivalry died when the kids left home talk to any senior care provider and whether you’re talking about medical, financial, housing or legal, they’ve got horror stories to set you straight. Some of it is just what each adult child thinks is the best possible care for their parent(s) but it … Read more
Dr. Emmanuel makes three proposals about caring for the dying
In an interview on Nov. 15, Dr. Ezekiel Emmanuel, oncologist and chair of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health spoke about the three key elements that must be included while caring for those near death. He called for: all doctors and nurses to be formally trained in end-of-life care and discussions, … Read more
Family care can reduce the risk of returning to the hospital
Informal caregivers can provide the kind of help necessary to prevent people from needing a return visit to the hospital according to a study in the October-December issue of Advances in Nursing Science. The study looked at factors that lead to repeated hospital admissions for 1,268 elderly patients receiving home healthcare and found that patients … Read more
November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness & Family Caregivers Month
What is dementia?
If there is a boogieman out there, his name is dementia and unlike the monsters under the bed when you were a child, this monster is real. However, as with most monsters, with proper preparation you can keep the monster from completely destroying your life. Here’s one person’s take on preparing for the disease.