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Best Chocolate Mousse Cake

Best Chocolate Mousse Cake

When I was married in 1983 traditional wedding cakes were still in style – too much icing, overly decorated and fairly dry.  I wanted something different so I decided to make my own. I chose chocolate mousse cake and made 14 of them to be served at our...

November is National Family Caregiver’s Month

There are over 65 million people in America alone, who are caring for loved ones. Some of them don’t consider themselves caregivers because they don’t feel they fall under the definition.  Just this week, a woman told me “oh, I wasn’t a...

5 Benefits of In Home Dental Care for Seniors

This is something I just learned about and am very excited to see.  Home dental care for seniors is not available widely yet but hopefully, as more and more caregivers and dentists see the benefit of it, it will become widespread.  The following article is a guest...

4 Ways Music Can Improve Dementia Care

Symptoms and behaviors associated with dementia can be difficult to adjust to for any family caregiver. Forgetfulness and repetitive discussion might be irritating, sudden aggressive behavior is hard to tackle and wandering and depression require additional safety and...

Heart Attack or Atrial Fibrillation: What You Need to Know

Today is my father’s birthday.  He would have been 92 and although he always said he wanted to live to be 100, it was not to be.  My father suffered from vascular dementia brought on by atrial fibrillation which ultimately led to congestive heart failure. So...