The Tender Loving Eldercare Blog

How to Find an Assisted Living Community — Part 4

In this final part in our series on how to find an assisted living community, we share how we found the best senior residence facility for 82-year-old Sally to live in. Part 1 is the back story, and Part 2 and Part 3 tell about our visits to the Assisted Living communities under consideration.  Below is […]

Visiting Aging Parents: Don’t Miss These Warning Signs

If you’re a long distance family caregiver, you may have a few extended visits with your aging parents throughout the year. These visits provide an excellent opportunity to watch for signs of possible decline in their physical and/or cognitive abilities. Sometimes a long distance caregiver notices things that a spouse or an adult child who […]

Taking Photos of Your Aging Parents

Sometimes the realization comes almost too late — you sense that your loved ones may soon be gone, and it dawns on you that you don’t have any recent photos of your aging parents to remember them by . . .   When I snapped this photograph of my father, it was to show him […]