How Can You Make Visits with Your Senior Productive as a Long-Distance Caregiver? When you’re a long-distance family caregiver, visits with your senior may feel way too short. Depending on how often you’re able to visit, you may need to do everything that you can in order to make the most of those visits. Keep…
How Do You Shop for a Parent Who Hates to Cook? Your mom’s tired of cooking. She hates preparing meals now that she’s retired. Since then, she’s taken to ready-to-heat meals, takeout, and packaged foods like yogurt. You’re helping her with finances and household planning, but you’re stuck. How do you shop for a parent…
Fire Prevention Checklist: The Kitchen One of the most important things that you do for your aging loved one as their family caregiver is help to keep them safe. While you might think of this in terms of their challenges and limitations, it is vital that you also keep in mind other risks that they…
How Do You Ask for Help and Could You Improve Your Method? Sometimes the reason that you’re not getting the help that you need as a caregiver is that your approach is slightly off. Try these ideas to tweak your methods. Guilt Doesn’t Work. Think about your own response when someone tries to use guilt…