Jazzing It Up: Easy Ways to Personalize a Care Home Room Edited: October 16, 2019 Sadly for all of us, my mother recently moved into a nursing home facility after having broken her hip by a fall. Moving to an assisted living care facility or nursing home brings many...
Having worked in the health care industry for almost 30 years, I can tell you that there is a definate hierarchy in the way that medical titles are perceived within the health care community. For instance, RNs are perceived better than LPNs (or LVNs); 4 year RN grads...
We have talked about the benefits of puzzles to our aging parents and loved ones before. Today, I’ve asked Karen Miller to share with you the story of Mary who has benefitted from working with puzzles especially created for aging adults. Silently… I gathered...
Well, I just returned from court where I needed to appear in order to end the conservatorship that I had obtained for my father. I was both a guardian and conservator for him and whereas a guardianship automatically ends at death, a conservatorship does not. There...
If you are un the middle of caregiving and finding it too tough to continue; if you are just beginning caregiving and wondering what you have gotten yourself into or if you are just considering the option to become a caregiver, you need to know that caregiving is not...