Making Personal Care Easier for Those with Alzheimer’s disease – and their Caregivers For most of us, personal care is a very personal and private activity. For those with Alzheimer’s disease, it is an activity they eventually will not be able to manage on their own. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, bathing and grooming are often the most difficult personal care activity caregivers will face. Because it is [...] Senior Retirement Communities Do Offer Visiting Doctors In addition to your search for the best retirement living community for your parents – whether it be independent or assisted living – you may need to source new physicians for them. When we moved my folks from Florida to Illinois, we were met with a real financial challenge. Their supplemental care insurance wasn’t available [...] The Right Time to Consider an Assisted Living Facility The decision to place an aging parent in a care home has got to be one of the most difficult decisions a person has to make. No one wants to leave the home they have lived in and made their own for so many years. But in some cases it is necessary for safety and quality [...] Dementia and DrivingThere is no question that a person who gets lost when taking a walk should not be behind the wheel of a car and thus there is no question that a person with full blown dementia should not be driving. However it is tricky to say exactly when a person’s dementia has gotten to a [...] keep looking »Follow Us
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