Aug 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
Do you realize that 70 percent of the human food supply depends on a bunch of women dancing? This is my interpretation of what my beekeeper friend, Nicole, taught me about how honey bees do their job. It inspired the most important advice I’ll ever give about...
Jul 23, 2022 | Common Challenges, Feeling Overwhelmed, Resources, Uncategorized
(Article Reposted with permission from Memorywell.com) Think of it as a mom’s group for a different and less joyful chapter of life. One woman struggles to understand why her mom won’t leave her room. Another woman, whose mother now lives with her, wonders on...
Jul 2, 2022 | Common Challenges, Medicare, Paying for Care, Resources, Uncategorized
“My dad doesn’t have Medicare!” A friend said to me recently. “What?” I responded. This seemed unlikely. Pretty much everyone over age 65 has some form of Medicare and my friend’s dad is at least 90 years old. Then he explained, “Dad has something called ‘Blue Cross...
Jun 21, 2022 | Assisted Living, Common Challenges, End-of-Life, Feeling Overwhelmed, Uncategorized
This summer at a caregiving event, a man wanted to know if it would be better for his mother, who has Alzheimer’s, to live at home with family or to live in a facility. He asked me, “What’s the right thing to do?” More recently, a woman worn out from caring for her...
Jun 3, 2022 | Home Care, Medicaid, Medicare, Paying for Care, Resources, Uncategorized
If you’re caring for someone over the age of 65, chances are that you know something about Medicare, the health insurance program that covers nearly all older Americans. But there’s another really important program that you need to know about: MediCAID. Medicaid is...
May 29, 2022 | Assisted Living, Common Challenges, Feeling Overwhelmed, Paying for Care, Uncategorized, Your Parent's Hospitalization
Americans have a love affair with hospitals. We tend to think of doctors and nurses as the people who were working hard to make good grades while the rest of us were skipping class. I am pretty sure my brilliant, doctor friend Heather was walking around with a...
