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Category 'Planning for Eldercare'
What Is Palliative Care?
Many people associate palliative care with end-of-life hospice care, but palliative care is offered at any stage of disease and can supplement curative treatment.
U.S. Faces the Growing Challenges of an Aging Population
During the next 30 years, the number of Americans over the age of 65 and the proportion of those individuals over 85 are expected to double, impacting the economy, employment, healthcare and social services.
Sandwich Generation Survival Tips
Are you a member of the sandwich generation? If you are raising children while caring for your elderly parents, you definitely are. Read the suggestions on how to protect yourself and your family.
Caregiving Back-Up Help
Arrange qualified in-home care assistance as back-up to the primary caregiver for a Veteran who has Memory Loss. The goal is to be ready to call for a professional in-home caregiver when the circumstances arise.
Protect Seniors From the Grandparent Scam
Con artists target the elderly because they can be easily fooled. Diminished capacities, such as hearing, vision or memory loss, and large bank accounts make seniors vulnerable to fraud. One type of fraud that targets seniors is the “grandparent scam.”
Having "The Talk": Planning for elder care in Walnut Creek, CA
Starting 'the talk'
Ready to begin "the talk" with your parents? Experts offer these tips:
Start discussions early, while faculties are still strong.
Be patient. Forcing help is counterproductive.
Be sensitive to concerns, possible anger and frustration.
Avoid "shoulds" and judgmental comments.
If immediate intervention is necessary, it's often best received from a trusted family friend, clergy member or health professional
Realize you may be in your parents' shoes one day.
Managing Finances in Walnut Creek CA
Are bills piling up in your loved one’s home in Walnut Creek, CA? Did he miss a mortgage payment? Overwithdraw his checking account? With age, many seniors start to experience changes that make it harder for them to manage their finances on their own. Uncharacteristic incidents of mismanaged...
Transitional Care in Walnut Creek CA May Cut Hospital Readmission Rates
In an editorial accompanying the study, Dr. Mitchell H. Katz, of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, concluded, "Decreasing hospital readmissions offers the hope of improving care while simultaneously reducing health-care costs."
Caregivers in Contra Costa County CA: Daily Life with Alzheimer's
“Redefining your relationship – finding a place where a spouse can be a partner, too – all that gets very difficult... I’m a caretaker now – whatever I can do to help her.”
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