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Join Our NewsletterThe Support I Wish I Had When Caring for My Mom with Dementia is Finally Available and Here’s How to Get it
Looking back on my 12 year dementia caregiving journey, I often wonder how it could have been different had I had support. The memories of being awake at 2 a.m. with no idea of what to do next, still shake me to my core. Sure, there are hotlines to call for support,...
The 5 Most Unexpected Challenges of Caregiving
The 5 Most Unexpected Challenges of Caregiving Every single one of us – because we are alive and we are human – runs the risk that at some point in our lives something will happen to us, making it impossible for us to take care of ourselves. This something can be any...
6 Features of Long-Term Care Insurance You’d Never Guess But Need to Know
It feels a little silly to be writing about long-term care insurance because only about 10% of the older adult population has purchased it. But, it comes up a lot in conversations I have with friends and family… either they’re thinking of buying it or they or their...
4 Essential Tips for Finding the Best Home Care for Your Parents
The vast majority of frail older adults live at home -- not in independent or assisted living and not in nursing homes. So, If you’re managing your parents’ care, sooner or later you’ll come up against the question of whether you should get them more help at home and...
The Top 3 Myths Most Women Believe About Paying for Long-Term Care
If you haven’t stopped to think about whether you’ll need to be taken care of when you are very old or how you’d pay for it, believe me, you are not alone. But, if you are a woman, this is a question you cannot afford to avoid. As Dr. Atul Gawande explains in his...
5 Safety-First Strategies for Your Parents’ Hospital Discharge
You’ve navigated your frail parent’s hospital stay and now it’s time to go home. You probably can’t wait to leave but ...what’s coming next is extremely uncertain. Leaving a hospital with a frail older adult in tow is like stepping off a cliff blindfolded. This blog...
3 Start-Up Business Strategies That Work for Daughterhood
I’ve always had a hard time with planning. I find the process of "thinking things through" boring and tedious. Occasionally this impulsiveness gets me in over my head. Like the time I ordered 20 zillion ivy seedlings for the shady part of my backyard without realizing...
4 Must-Know Tips for Your Parent’s Hospital Stay
It always comes as a shock to me that being likeable doesn't solve all my problems. In my mind, being accommodating is the key to being likable. Of course, the problem with this thinking is that occasionally all that pent up accommodation and desire to be likeable...
4 Common Traps To Avoid in Making the Move to Assisted Living
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself Maya Angelou About two months after my husband moved out, I noticed an awful smell coming from somewhere in the kitchen. I spent a whole week trying to locate the source. My kitchen cabinets have...
How Softball and Starbucks Taught Me a Valuable Lesson About Being a Good Parent and a Good Daughter
I’ve been noticing that when I get caught in the undertow of feeling like a failure at parenting, it makes me really angst-y and hyper-controlling with my kids, especially my 15-year-old daughter, Grace. This happened last week when, mid-stream in spring softball...
