Seniors For Living

Even if we’re not directly involved in caregiving, we all need time to recharge. All too often though, we pack our weekends with more activities than rest. We spend Saturdays and Sundays catching up on home improvement projects, errands, ...

Imagine if caregivers had a vacation bank in which they could accumulate days off and know they would have coverage while away? Though this may be a pipe dream (for now), that does not mean caregivers should not take time ...

Boomers and seniors are adding to their numbers every day. You don’t have to be a population scientist to know this; the facts about the “age wave” are all around us, surfacing in national, state and local news headlines ...

Some working Americans have the day off for the Easter/Passover holiday, but for the over 65 million who are caregivers, today is just “another day at the office.” Caring for someone with Alzheimer’s, COPD, or any other chronic illness ...

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I recently had the privilege of chatting with Diana Denholm, PhD, LMHC, an experienced psychotherapist, and author of The Caregiving Wife’s Handbook. I learned so much from ...

It all began with a man named Lloyd Drum.

“Michelle, he couldn’t sleep when we got him his first bed, because he had been sleeping on a recliner on his front porch for 30 years!” Dorothy Breininger tells me of ...

When I saw a tweet mentioning “elderschadenfreude” in relation to aging parents, I had to know more. I followed the link and found a new article from The Atlantic magazine, simply titled Daddy Issues.

The title’s simplicity stands in ...

Imagine if we could prepare for caregiving like we did for the first day of school. You would get a letter from the teacher, detailing what items were needed; the date, time and classroom location would be listed too.

Things ...

It’s the sixth leading cause of death and the only disease that cannot be prevented, cured or slowed. It afflicts approximately 5.4 million Americans, a number that grows by the second. Catch these and other startling stats in this video, ...

Unfortunately, the answer is no, at least in terms of what the candidates are saying (and not saying) in the debates and stump speeches, on the campaign trail and elsewhere.

Those who have been following the Republican debates have heard ...