Paying for an Older Person's Health Care
The cost of a serious illness, surgery, or a lengthy stay in the hospital can easily wipe out your elder's nest egg. The more you know about health-care insurance plans [more…]
Helping Your Elder with Grooming and Hygiene
Seeing that doctors' appointments are kept, meals are cooked, and bills are paid is only part of your job description as a caregiver. Your main job — and most important work — is helping your older person [more…]
Recognizing an Elder's Efforts to Hide Distressful Emotions
People frequently protect themselves from the pain of their own emotions (including anxiety, resentment, frustration, and depression) by hiding these feelings — from themselves and from others. They often [more…]
Recognizing the Pitfalls of Providing Eldercare
Understanding the dollar value of what you're providing — for free — is important to your sense of accomplishment. For example, care provided to Alzheimer disease sufferers by their family members would [more…]
Eldercare: Dealing with Clinical Depression
It's estimated that 15 to 20 percent of elders suffer from some kind of depression — everything from the passing mood to the kind that requires medical attention, clinical depression. [more…]
