Can You Protect Your Parent from Parkinson’s Disease?
Parkinson’s disease is a progressive disease that impacts cognitive and physical functioning. This disease dramatically diminishes health, functioning, and quality of life over time, and there is currently no cure. As a family caregiver, you want to do everything that you can to protect your aging parent from health conditions and issues that can be […]
Why Might a Senior with Alzheimer’s Disease Be More Susceptible to Dehydration?
As a family caregiver for an elderly adult who is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, you likely think about how this disease affects your parent’s health every day. You consider how the cognitive functioning effect will impact your parent’s daily functioning, if they can make your parent more vulnerable to health problems, and if they can […]
It’s National Humor Month – 5 Great Comedies to Watch with Seniors
April is National Humor Month, a month that people of any age can celebrate together. In fact, when caregivers and older adults laugh together, they can both gain some important health benefits. Experts at the Mayo Clinic say that laughter can help alleviate stress, such as the kind of stress caregiver duties can cause, or […]
Four Ways to Help Your Senior Bathe Regularly
Bathing is just one of many personal care tasks that may suddenly start to become too difficult for your aging family member to handle on her own. If you’re not sure how to step in and help, though, you might feel at a loss as to whether you can even help her at all. Talk […]