Holidays indeed pose another set of challenges for us caregivers! It’s hard enough to get our seniors moving everyday, what more when there’s unusual cheer in the air? The biggest challenge of all is to actually make holidays fun for both the senior and the caregiver. If you are planning to take your senior to a holiday vacation, you might want to read these handy tips so you’ll have more [...]

If I know how to make a caregiver’s life easier, then I would definitely share it to the world – and without reservations. However, caregiving is never an easy task. It requires your all and honestly, there’s too much emotion at play in caregiving especially if the senior you are taking care of is someone close to you – that is, a family member or a partner. However, there are [...]

There are several reasons why many caregivers decided to just move their aging parent into their own homes instead of looking for other housing options. One of the most common factors is money. A caregiver/provider who doesn’t have much resource to go around might opt to just move a senior into their own homes and personally take care of their needs from there instead of having the senior admitted to [...]

Safety issues are surely not the ones you would like to discuss in Sunday dinners with your aging parents. You just don’t go straight on asking your parent if he or she has already decided on which assistive community to move into or if they have already installed the grab bars in their bathrooms. Understand that while it is important for you – as their concerned kid – to know, [...]

Just to familiarize our senior readers about psoriatic arthritis and how it is different from your ordinary arthritis, I am giving a short background description of psoriatic arthritis. Psoriatic arthritis is an inflammatory arthritis which means aside from your usual arthritic joint aches, there would also be swelling, pitting of nails (i.e nails separating from its bed), pain in heels and soles of the feet which makes it near impossible [...]

Being in an institution can be hard for both the elderly and their visitors. Some family members openly admit that the experience can be traumatic and would prefer not to do it again if not for their beloved seniors. Moving into an assisted facility means “change” and for most seniors, it is unwelcome since most of them – if not all – are not really ready for it yet and [...]

Sure there are pains, physical and emotional. Sure, there WILL BE pain, and suffering and whatnot but if you ask seniors – those who are past midlife crisis, mind you – will tell you, growing old and gray isn’t so bad, certainly not as bad as we imagined it to be. In fact, when you reach a certain age, when you feel you’ve already done your part and just awaiting [...]

Do you still remember the time when your kids were in their teens and you fret about their dating too early? Or perhaps getting scared when it was already past their curfew and they were still nowhere to be found? Or maybe, raised hell when you found out that they were smoking cigarettes already – and, gasp! YOUR pack of cigarettes! Well, let’s just say that you and your kid [...]

Caregiver’s life is no joke. There are lots and lots of things to do and there seems to be no time to do it all in one day. Actually, there seems to be no end to it at all! If you have been caring for your loved-one for quite some time now, you must be familiar with common caregiver angst. Oftentimes, it gets so overwhelming that it is not impossible [...]

If there’s one thing we, seniors, avoid the most, it would be falls and slips as we all know the health implications that come with it. However, as we age, it gets a little harder to avoid falls and slips considering those several factors which might lead to a fall or a slip are the exact same things we can’t do without. I, personally, am conscious of my surroundings and [...]