How Do You Know When It’s Time to Move Your Aging Parents?
This is the one question I hear most frequently from baby boomers caring for their aging parents, and I wish there was a “one size fits all” answer for it. All of our aging parents (or Golden Oldies as I prefer to call them) decline in various ways and at different rates, but here are [...]
A Story About Finding Assisted Living — Part 4, Sally’s Decision
This is the final part in our story about how we found the best assisted living facility for 82-year-old Sally to live in. Please read the background info here, and the reports about our visits to Assisted Living Facilities “A” and “B.” Below is the outcome of our search . . . . When [...]
A Story About Finding Assisted Living — Part 3
This is the third article in a four-part series about finding an assisted living facility for 82-year-old Sally to live in. Please read the background info here, and about our visit to Assisted Living Facility “A” here. Her story continues below . . . Sally and I were running nearly two hours late for our [...]
A Story About Finding Assisted Living — Part 2
This is the second part in a four-part series. Please read Part 1 here for background about our story of finding an Assisted Living residence for Sally. Meeting Sally On a Saturday morning I met Sally at her friend’s home, where she was living temporarily, and off we went to visit the first of two [...]
A Story about Finding Assisted Living — Part 1
One eldercare question I’m asked often is, “How do I find the best assisted living facility for my aging parents?” I normally go through this process with adult children who are making the decision for their parents. Recently, I received a different request — please help Sally, an 82-year-young woman with no family living nearby, [...]
How to Remove Pets from an Aging Parent’s Home
A reader wrote this comment to a prior post here. Because her question is a challenge many families face while caring for their “Golden Oldies” (aka aging parents or relatives), I’ve gotten permission to publish it along with my answer below: . . . I need some advice. I fully believe that pets are beneficial [...]
When Aging Parents Can No Longer Care for their Pets
In a previous post I wrote about the many advantages senior citizens (or Golden Oldies as I prefer to call them) gain from pet ownership. My local paper published a story last week about two dogs currently up for adoption who were owned by an elderly gentleman. Reading it made me recognize another aspect of [...]
How a Bus Stop Helps Prevent Wandering in Alzheimer’s Patients
As a family caregiver, I find it encouraging to read creative solutions to common problems we face and this news story certainly contains one! If you have cared for someone with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, you know your Golden Oldie could possibly wander off and become lost. In Dusseldorf, Germany, the Benrath Senior Centre, came [...]
How Prepared Are You for the Future?
Six weeks ago I asked the TLeC community to participate in a survey by Ryan Malone, founder of Inside Assisted Living. The survey was initiated to better understand in which way and to what degree families are prepared for their loved ones’ transition to assisted living. The results have been tallied and the free Assisted [...]
Update on Sophie, the New Board & Care Resident
Last week I listed my concerns about Sophie the cat moving in with her owner, “P,” the new resident at my mom’s board & care facility. I’m pleased to report it is not a CATastrophe at all! Here are the results of the Action Steps I took: The Residency, Service and Admission Agreement we signed [...]
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