But some, maybe more than we’d like to admit, have a less than admirable motive for their comments. Some don’t want Mom to have outside care, because outside care is expensive. And outside care will quickly eat up their parents’ hard-earned money – the money the family was to inherit....

Infection prevention and control resources and programming in Canadian long-term care facilities fall short of recommended standards, a new Queen's University study shows. Led by professor of Community Health and Epidemiology Dick Zoutman, the national survey of 488 facilities is the first comprehen...

Mom’s home sold this evening. Well, to be honest, anything can happen between now and the actual day that it literally gets sold. However, it was a rough day for her. Her voice was different, she didn’t even bother to go in the other room when the real estate agent called. I believe she ...

We are lucky to have another guest post by Barbara Friesner of AgeWise Living, a generational coach who works with families around issues of aging, care-giving and helping siblings maintain or improve their relationships while one or more of them is caring for an aging  parent. Barbara has gen...

There are findings in this study that are to me, quite frankly, rather hard to distinguish from an earlier study. Older studies, such as the one I wrote about in, "More Education Means A Lesser Chance of Getting Alzheimer's, Dementia," showed that people with more education took longer to show sympt...

©2008, A. Jeanroy This week will start off with another caregiving website that I found. It is called HerMentorCenter.com . This site is more than just a how-to for caregivers. It is more of a nurturing the Sandwich Generation of caregivers, by giving them tools to help themselves. From the site, y...

This is a long overdue post about the apparent contrast, to military types, about some of the necessary "mind-body medicine" concepts like "soft belly breathing" -- a useful, easy form of meditative calming. A few months ago I was privileged......

I’ve shared occasionally arts and crafts ideas from the Arts Bloggers.  We are a group who put together some of our favorite posts each week to share with others.  Often Alzheimer’s patients like to be involved in crafts.  Also, caregivers find them relaxing and inspirational. The Art...

Parent Filter: What can I do about this parent/child role reversal that is poisoning my mind and my life and how can I let this parent know that even though I love them dearly I will not continue to let them manipulate me and dump all of their responsibilities on to my plate??? Long story short, my ...

By Jack Halpern Bill Sanders, 57, has been taking care of his 90-year-old mother for the past 14 years, both at her home in Brooklyn, New York and the nursing home where she now resides. "When I took care of my mother at home," he explains, "I found that neighbors looked down on me. They thought I w...