If you were to list the top 5 emotions you experience in meeting the care needs of your elderly parents, what would they be? Maybe you’d first think of feelings like love, compassion, and in some cases, even stress or frustration. Would anger make the list? In many cases, though family care providers wouldn’t wish […]
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Life, especially, although not just, during the course of the pandemic, can be filled with uncertainties. For older adults who are feeling less in control of particular aspects of life, such as losing cognitive or physical functioning, concentrating on what can be controlled is empowering.
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Watch what happens at your next family gathering when a new mother places her baby in someone’s arms. The person will likely shift automatically into baby mode: a sing-song, high-pitched voice, overly-simplified speech, and exaggerated facial expressions. Of course, this is perfectly normal and actually advantageous to an infant’s developing brain.
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Anxiety. Fear. Embarrassment. The thoughts and feelings associated with a potential dementia diagnosis can cause older adults to keep their suspicions to themselves. A recently available AARP survey peeled away a few of the layers of emotion to get to the root cause – namely, worry over losing independence and becoming a problem to others.
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While we are finally working our way towards the end of the pandemic, we’re figuring out more about how it has impacted the elderly – both emotionally and physically with greater muscle weakness in seniors. We realize older adults have been at an increased danger of serious complications and death due to the COVID-19 virus,
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Recent research sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Association is revealing some unexpected results in how dementia symptoms may show differently in Hispanic people. While more investigation is necessary to fully understand whether these differences are the result of social/cultural nuances or even the dementia itself, it is important information for Latino families to understand.
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As our parents age, it is not necessarily easy to know what our role as adult children should be. We’d like whatever is best for them, however if we’re not very careful, we can overstep our boundaries and discover ourselves attempting to parent our elderly parents. This is especially true when safety is an issue.
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For decades, researchers have been exploring the advancement of Alzheimer’s through a single basic model, even though not all Alzheimer’s diagnoses present with the same symptoms and progression.
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Consider the various tools you make use of each day – your phone, hairbrush, toothbrush – simple items, but ones you cannot envision living without. For scores of seniors, there are basic adaptive devices available that may mean the difference between living at home and facing a move to assisted living. Yet nearly 50% of
When you need to work together to ascertain if the needs of one’s aging parents are being met, even the closest of siblings may find themselves in conflict. Stress levels and emotions are, of course, running high. Add to this your past history and family dynamics, which have a tendency to resurface during stressful times,
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