What to Do After You’ve Lost Your Cool with your Aging Parents

Written by on February 17, 2010 - 5 Comments
Categories: Caregiver Stress, Communication

We’re all human.   We’ve probably all felt the guilt and remorse after losing our cool with our aging parents, relatives or care recipients. Aside from feeling badly, what can we actively do to make amends after we’ve blown up at them?  How do we begin to repair the relationship after a hurtful incident? Making up [...]

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Family Caregivers Communication Class — The Language of Dementia, Part 2

Written by on March 23, 2009 - 5 Comments
Categories: Caregiver Stress, Communication

This is Part 2 in a series. Please click here to read Part 1 which contains the background ideas these lessons are built on. It isn’t easy to change our way of communicating with our memory-impaired aging parents, but in order to make their lives (and ours) easier, it is helpful to follow some basic [...]

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Family Caregivers Communication Class — The Language of Dementia, Part 1

Written by on March 16, 2009 - 13 Comments
Categories: Caregiver Stress, Communication

Many of our aging parents (or Golden Oldies as I prefer to call them) will eventually develop some type of memory loss. It usually starts as the forgetfulness we have come to expect with normal aging, but then it may progress to dementia or Alzheimer’s disease (AD for short, which is the most common type [...]

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