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Tips on Making Care Giving Easier

Recently I asked members of  Twitter and Facebook to tell me what was the best thing that they had done to make their care giving role easier, better or more rewarding. While I wasn’t that surprised by their answers, it was reinforcing to know that many of the...

9 Reasons I’m Glad to be a Care Giver

In honor of today’s date: 9-9-09, I’m offering a list of 9 reasons why I am thankful to be a care giver. One of the reasons that I felt compelled to make this list is because I was having “one of those days”.  I laundered my father’s...

The Return of Country Doctors ?

Today on Twitter, Dale Carter ( @daccarte) , mentioned an article Doctors seeing elderly patients at home saves money, improves care in the Kennebec Journal Morning Sentinel by Gillian Johnston, MD discussing his practice of making home medical visits to his elder...

If Today Was Your Last Day….

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe-Eosmk6oE[/youtube]Today got off to a FAST start at 6:30 a.m. when my father walked out the front door yelling “where are you guys??!”.  He wanted “to give the boys some money” . Thankfully, we have an...

LONG TERM CARE – WHO WILL PAY?

While my father continues to live with me, I have still begun the process of looking into assisted living facilities and nursing care homes so that I’ll be prepared if or when the time comes that I’ll no longer be able to care for him at home.  Here in...

Keeping Seniors Warm During Cold Weather

Although spring is just around the corner, the sighting of his shadow by Punxsutawney Phil on Groundhog Day (February 2nd) tells us that there will be at least 6 more weeks of winter weather. For those of us in colder climates, this means MORE COLD weather. And for...