Helping Your Senior

How to Protect Your Senior from Financial Abuse

Is your senior safe from financial abuse? You might be surprised.

Why Educating Your Caregiver is a Win-Win

It’s common for your loved one’s needs to change over time. If you’re lucky, you have a trusted caregiver who really connects with your senior, understands his or her needs, and is responsive to your input and concerns.

How to Make Your Senior's Home Safe After a Hospital Visit

Many families don’t realize how much a loved one’s health has deteriorated until a fall lands them in the hospital.

Alternatives to Driving: Creative Ways to Help Your Senior Get Around

At some point, a drive out with your aging mother or father becomes a bit more complicated than hopping into the passenger seat.

Struggling to Help Aging Parents On Your Own? A Geriatric Care Manager May Be Your Answer

Geriatric Care Managers are specialists who help older adults and their families navigate the physical, emotional, and social challenges that are difficult to manage alone.

How to Help Your Senior Avoid Loneliness While Aging in Place

Aging in place

With nearly 8 out of 10 seniors preferring to stay in their home as long as possible according to AARP, chances are...

The Top 3 Benefits of Aging in Place

It’s not hard to see why so many seniors prefer to stay at home as they grow older rather than relocate to a nursing home or assisted living facility.

How to Set Boundaries With Aging Parents

When you have agreed to care for your mother or father as they age, the job you started doing can sometimes become too much.

Downsizing Your Parents’ Home: Resources and Benefits

Many experts would agree that once you hit your 40s and your parents hit their 70s, it’s time to have “the talk.”

Is Home Safe for Your Senior? Find Out with These 3 Questions and Checklist

For seniors and their adult children, the family home may be a source of comfort, safety, and happy memories, so it’s easy to understand the appeal of aging in place.

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