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• Holiday Visits Give Opportunities For Senior Care Check-up

  
  Elder Care ABC — Authority: 471
  Do your parents live in another city, state or country from you? Do you only enjoy a lengthy visit with them at the year-end holidays? If this is the case, remember to take a complete assessment of their current care needs while you are visiting. This will allow you to prevent emergency senior care planning later ...
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• Eldercare and Quieting the Storm of Anger

  
  Elder Care ABC — Authority: 471
  by Joy Loverde Let’s say your elderly Mom fell on the steps and kept it a secret for three months because she “didn’t want to bother you.” Or conversations with Dad escalate into shouting matches on a regular basis. By now you’re so angry that you’re beginning to suffer from physical symptoms like ...
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• Executive Function and Other Losses

  
  Dementia Nights — Authority: 126
  Remember my inspiration last month? The one about getting him through the move by telling him that he was going to live near me with some people who work for me, and that thered be work for him, too? File...
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• First Visit: Not Bad

  
  Dementia Nights — Authority: 126
  Just got back from the first visit. It went well. On the way there, thoughts, speculations, questions - is it going to be a betrayal? An entombment? The answer to his problems? The answer to mine? Some of the above?...
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• Here if you need me

  
  Elder Care ABC — Authority: 471
  by Mary Beth Sammons Always looking for “the meaning” of what life presents, I found a great book I would like to recommend to caregivers: Here If You Need Me: A True Story (Little, Brown and Company, 2007) by Kate Braestrup. The theme that I found most useful for caregivers is the idea of “the ministry ...
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• Tomorrows Adventure: The First Visit

  
  Dementia Nights — Authority: 126
  A call yesterday with S, the social worker. They still have some trepidation about how hell react, but theyve decided its OK for me to visit. Ill go up to see him tomorrow afternoon. I have some trepidation, too. But...
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• November 18th ElderecareABC Blog Carnival

  
  Elder Care ABC — Authority: 471
  This week’s carnvial is taking a different turn as our listing that requests submissions got lost in cyberspace.  Instead of submissions, this week we are going to become a traveling carnival and visit some great eldercare blogs around the Internet. Next week, we hope you will join us with your eldercare blogs and ...
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• Activities/tasks/distractions for my grandmother?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 656
  Id like ideas for activities/tasks/distractions for my demented grandmother. My grandmother is in her late 80s and presently lives with other members of my immediate family. She has some form of slowly progressive dementia. Symptoms vary widely from day to day; shes often lucid and cheerful and at other times becomes ...
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• No COLA for 2010 Part D Premiums Rising

  
  Elder Care ABC — Authority: 471
  by Mary Jane Stern It has been reported there will be no COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment) for 2010 and you would hope there would no increases in other areas of Medicare premiums for your healthcare.  But, in a press release from CMS, August 14, 2009, premiums for Part D will rise in 2010. What ...
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• Announcing a TLeC Contest for National Family Caregivers Month 2009

  
  Tender Loving Eldercare — Authority: 112
  “Music is part of being human.” ~ Oliver W. Sacks To continue our celebration of and gratitude for all caregivers during National Family Caregivers Month 2009, TLeC is holding it’s very first contest! It is open to all caregivers, families employing caregivers, and/or eldercare professionals in the U.S.A. ...
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• Has Your Home Caregiver Been Trained?

  
  Elder Care ABC — Authority: 471
  Most people are astonished to hear that many homecare workers do not have any formal education in caring for an elderly adult. Certified nurse aids and nurses must hold a license or a certification in all 50 states. Homemakers, sitters and companions, on the other hand, do not have to be certified or licensed. A ...
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• Closing It Out

  
  Dementia Nights — Authority: 126
  I went up to New York on Tuesday and spent all day Wednesday, til about midnight, packing the apartment. I think Im done. Thursday morning I hired a closeout specialist - a woman referred to me by M who shuts...
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• Elder Care: The Biggest Problem

  
  Aging Parents Authority — Authority: 118
  Elder care is an issue many of us are grappling with all over the world. If you think you’re alone, you’re not. Here is one of the best articles on the prickly eldercare issues we have ever read.  It is from Rumana Rashid, writing for Bangladesh’s New Nation. She hits on the most difficult problem of all- ...
  2 weeks ago

• Weekly Round-Up: News and Analysis on Women and Poverty (Week ending October November 6, 2009)

  
  Washington Area Women's Foundation — Authority: 119
  The latest news, analysis and opinion on the state of low-income women and their families from Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity , a national foundation-led initiative, is excited to collaborate with The Women’s Foundation to bring you the latest news and analysis on ...
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• November 11th Eldercare Blog Carnival

  
  Elder Care ABC — Authority: 471
  Welcome to the November 11, 2009 – Veteran’s Day  Edition of the EldercareABC Carnival “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than onesel f” ~Joseph Campbell Derrick Grant presents Twenty Safe Driving Tips for Senior Citizens posted at ElderGuru.com . Edie Dykeman ...
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• Does Your Elder Parent Wander? Caregiving Concerns Explored

  
  Mothering Mother and More — Authority: 110
  Just today, I was driving home when I saw an elder-woman walking on the side of a rather busy road. Cars go at least 40 and sometimes 60 mph. on this road. She had no business walking there alone. My husband and I turned around and I got out to greet her. “Hello, I’m Carol and I live nearby–are you lost?” I ...
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• Twitter Tuesday: Dementia Care, Aricept, Homeschooling Programs…

  
  SandwichINK.com — Authority: 130
  Senior Home Care Giving: Caregiver Tips: Activities for aging parents with Alzheimer’s Disease . @carebuzz Strategies for the Sandwich Generation Senior Home Care Giver at BusinessWeek. Alzheimers Update: Insurance Company Requires Proof for Every Aricept Prescription . RT @alzheimersdotfm Interesting ...
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• Cost of Elderly Health Care

  
  Elder Care ABC — Authority: 471
  On average, the cost of elderly health care is $5,531 annually. Family members not only provide hands-on care but often dig into their own pockets to pay other expenses which include groceries, drugs and medicines, medical equipments such as wheelchairs, toilet seat risers and transportation. Many times family ...
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• Hes Transitioning

  
  Dementia Nights — Authority: 126
  The first official treatment conference wasnt as big or as formal as Id expected, but it was useful nevertheless. Only a few departments were represented - behavioral assessment, medicine, social work and (on speakerphone) physical therapy. But those are the...
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• Questions and Insights

  
  Elder Care ABC — Authority: 471
  by Joy Loverde As the author of The Complete Eldercare Planner and online elder care columnist geared toward people who are caring for aging parents, I’ve been asked some interesting questions. The depth of where our caregiving journeys will lead us never ceases to amaze me. This blog offers insights into ...
  3 weeks ago

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