Seniors For Living

This Wednesday, 43 participants at our live Twitter forum tackled a tough subject: the implications of some startling new statistics about substance abuse among seniors. We also explored the issue as it relates to caregivers of older adults.

Just how startling ...

This Wednesday, 52 participants at our live Twitter forum shared the ways they have managed difficult caregiving decisions, either on behalf of clients or for their own family members and friends. We also discussed the tough decisions facing the eldercare industry.

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This Wednesday, 57 participants at our live Twitter forum shared the ways they stay safe as caregivers, senior living professionals, and responsible individuals. We talked about everything from the dangers of driving alone, to protecting ourselves and family members online, to ...

This Wednesday, 52 participants at our live Twitter forum shared the ways they stay motivated and inspired to help others, whether as caregivers, as people in helping professions, or just as caring individuals. As usual, each attendee walked away with valuable ...

There has been so much news and social media buzz about the pope lately, but this angle explored by Paula Span of The New York Times’ New Old Age blog is an interesting one. Her article Is the Pope Frail? ...

Quality of life is not something that is easily put into words, but we certainly know when we don’t have the quality of life we want, or when someone else’s quality of life is not what it should ...

TEDMED is an extension of the well-known TED site, where you can listen to TED Talks and engage in a number of ways (via their conversations, initiatives, events and more) around “ideas worth spreading.” One of their national conferences, TEDMED2013, ...

Bugaboo.

This word, which had been mentioned in a previous chat by one of our regular participants, inspired the topic for this week’s #ElderCareChat.

Defined by Merriam-Webster as “an imaginary object of fear” or “something that causes fear or ...

Caring for an elder you love -- be it a grandparent, parent, friend, spouse, or sibling -- inevitably prompts the need for complex conversations you’d probably rather avoid...

Do you want extraordinary measures to be taken?
You need help ...

As parents you may have dreaded having the “birds and bees” discussion with your children, but that probably seems a lot better than having to tell Dad that he needs to consider assisted living care for Mom because the strain ...