Caregiving Articles with Tips and Recommendations

Voting is a right and a duty that can be difficult to exercise if you’re a senior. Here are ways loved ones can help on election day.

One of the most important relationships for seniors is the one they have with grandchildren. GrandCamp Adventures helps families nurture the grandparent and grandchild relationship.

Many older adults are capable of driving safely, even into their 70s and 80s. But people age differently. Several factors place seniors at much greater risk for road accidents and affect seniors’ driving ability.

It is undeniable that drugs do save lives, but few prescription medications are completely free of risks or side effects. Naturally, the more drugs that are taken at the same time, the greater the risk of adverse interactions and potentially devastating side effects. This problem of “overmedication” is increasing to almost epidemic proportions among the elderly. Take for example a recent Washington Post article that described an 83-year-old grandmother who wished to remain anonymous.

Traditionally, people bring flowers to sick people. But this type of patient care may do more than just cheer them up. According to a study in the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, the physical environment has important implications for the disease process.

It makes us uncomfortable to talk about, so any discussion of end-of-life care needs gets pushed under the rug for as long as possible, sometimes for so long that it’s too late to take meaningful steps to ease the transition.

A recent study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found that despite all the attention to better end-of-life-care and death with dignity, a majority of people who receive life-extending care in the last week of their life had previously expressed their desire to receive only symptom relief and comfort care.