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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…]
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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…]
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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…]
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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…]
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Ground Rules for a Family Meeting about Eldercare
If your family is faced with getting or continuing care for an elderly loved one, a family meeting can be productive in airing issues and concerns and brainstorming solutions. Tips on running a fruitful [more…]
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How to Help an Elder Get the Most out of Doctor Appointments
Often, part of caring for an elder includes accompanying them to medical appointments. To make the most of these healthcare sessions, encourage your elder to use the following tips to promote a healthcare [more…]
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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…]
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How to Get Your Elder to Accept Help
Getting an elderly person to accept that they need help when the abilities they've relied on throughout a long life are diminishing can be difficult for you and the elder you're caring for. The tips in [more…]
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How to Reduce the Stress of Caring for an Elder
Caring for an elder can be rewarding and personally enriching, but it is also stressful. Using the tips in the following list can help you relieve your stress and improve quality of life for both you and [more…]
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Eldercare For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Caring for an elderly family member or loved one brings its own stresses and rewards. Your first step may be to convince your elder to accept help. A family meeting can help clarify issues and solutions [more…]
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