Your aging loved one has been able to always take care of themselves. From personal hygiene to yardwork, they have always been self-sufficient. However, lately it seems, your loved one has started to slide on some of those things and rely on you or your siblings to help out with more duties. You might find their house is cluttered or they’ve not been keeping up with regular showers unless prompted to do so by you. [Read more…]

If your loved one was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or another type of memory loss disease, it can be a heart-breaking diagnosis. You have likely already started to notice some of the early signs of forgetfulness or frustration when their thoughts begin to escape them. [Read more…]

The first thing as a caregiver that you should know about senior day care is: do not feel guilty. It is important to take breaks from your caregiver duties and not everybody has multiple siblings to help aid them in caring for an aging loved one. That is where senior or aging day care can help and is becoming a more common trend in 2022. [Read more…]

The call you receive when a loved one has fallen and injured themselves can be one of the most difficult to hear. Your mind begins to race. How badly were they injured? Were they able to receive assistance right away or did they have to wait for somebody to find them? What will be the road to recovery and how will they handle it? [Read more…]

When you have a parent that has moved into a care facility, you will likely realize that there are some responsibilities as a caretaker you no longer have to worry about. The care facility will likely be handling things like daily hygiene and prescription distribution which can be taxing on you, the caregiver. However, that doesn’t mean that the caregiver responsibilities have ended but rather changed (depending on the level of care at the facility). [Read more…]