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Written by zaj on 07/04/2007
One thing that helped my siblings and me when things started to happen to my parents was for my brother, sister, and me to define roles f...

Topics: caregivers, roles, siblings
Written by zaj on 07/13/2007
We had to face the prospect of transporting my dad (who's wheelchair-bound) across the country when we moved him from the East Coast to t...

Topics: paralysis, transit, wheelchair
Written by suedavy on 07/15/2007
Someone recommended this book to me: "Caring for Yourself While Caring for Your Aging Parents: How to Help, How to Survive", by Claire...

Topics: aging-parents, caregivers, caregivers-need-care
Written by zaj on 07/17/2007
A friend just sent a link to the following article that may be of interest to those who have a loved one with Alzheimers: http://finda...

Topics: alzheimer's, dementia, family-activities, memory-loss, scrapbooking
Written by zaj on 07/17/2007
This was a good article about how when our parents answer the phone, the people on the other end chatting them up may be looking to scam ...

Topics: finances, loneliness, scam
Written by carolo on 07/19/2007
For the first few months following my father's diagnosis of ALS, the idea of hospice care seemed not only unnecessary, but even a bit ind...

Topics: als, hospice
Written by zaj on 08/07/2007
This series ran back in June 07. There are a number of articles that should be useful to most of us dealing with the issues of aging pare...

Topics: eldercare, finances, living-arrangements, parents
Written by zaj on 08/18/2007
If a loved one (or you) are having a hard time using telephones and such due to deafness, vision problems, or anything else... and Califo...

Topics: blindness, communications, deafness, speaking-problems, telephone
Written by zaj on 08/27/2007
The NY Times had an article on 8/26/07 about various software programs that are designed to keep an aging persons mind "fit". From the ar...

Topics: alzheimer's, brain-fitness, daily-living, dementia, memory, software
Written by lisa on 09/08/2007
My Dad's hearing is far from stellar, and talking on the phone has become really challenging (for me--not him! It doesn't seem to bother ...

Topics: communications, deafness, telephone

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