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Elder Care: I don’t want to think about it.
Planning makes elder care easier. Not planning, for any reason, just makes things worse.
Elder Care: Toileting
One of the more difficult things to adjust to in home care for the elderly is taking care of an incontinent adult, especially if it your parent. Jill had to do it three times when I was not available, and it is a memory she tries to suppress.
Elder Care: Bathroom Safety Continued
There are a few more things that you can do to make the bathroom safer when you start to provide elder care.
Home Care: Bathroom Safety
For the elderly who are still mobile the bathroom is the most interactive room and the room with the most potential for falls and/or injury. What I mean by interactive is that there are activities that involve balance, slippery conditions, hot water, hard surfaces, and all in a confined space. My father-in-law would spend many [...]
Elder Care: Showering
When we started providing elder care for my father-in-law he could still do the five activities of daily living; toileting, bathing, dressing, grooming, and eating. He read the newspaper every day and was able to go for walks unassisted. As time went on those activities became harder and harder to do. Bathing was one of [...]
Elder care: Eating
There is one sure correlation in elder care and it is this: The chances that a senior citizen will wind up in a nursing home will be dramatically reduced if the loved one has a daughter. A daughter will fight to keep her parent at home.
My Father-in-law
One of the hardest things about elder care is watching someone you love literally and figuratively shrink away from you.
Elder Care: Don’t Let This Happen To You
The following is a true story. I wish it weren’t.