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FCC Launces New Site for Caregivers and Seniors

The site promises to help you "find links to agencies and organizations that provide reliable information about generic drugs, hormone therapy, caregiving, surgery to improve vision, alternative medicine, hearing aids, Medicare fraud, and medical ID theft

Posted to Minding Our Elders (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-05-2008
Home for the Holidays: Be Prepared

Adult children carry with them memoires of holidays past. The sights and smells of the familiar home with Mom and Dad there to present a warm family gathering. So, when we go back to visit, even if we consciously know our parents are aging, we subconsciously expect things to stay the same. This expectation...

Posted to Minding Our Elders (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-26-2008
Alzheimer’s Diagnosis Should Be Made After Considering Other Causes for Memory Problems

Later, after a visit with a different doctor and more tests, she called to tell me her dad didn't have Alzheimer's. He had vascular dementia.

Posted to Minding Our Elders (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-25-2008
Engage With Grace Provides Valuable Tool for End-Of-Life Discussions

During this time, we as a family also had many talks about quality of life over quantity of life. I never had a doubt about what my parents wanted done, or not done, as their own lives slowly drifted to an end.

Posted to Minding Our Elders (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-23-2008
Canadian Researchers Find Psychotropic Drugs Can Affect Driving

A media release on marketwire.com caught my eye, because elders and driving is a tough issue for many of us, let alone elders who are in the early stages of dementia. Also, many people without dementia take some of the drugs listed, namely antidepressants.

Posted to Minding Our Elders (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-30-2008
Insurance: Are Seniors Being Duped into Buying Policies They Don’t Need?

For example, the pitch may offer a very low-cost first month premium, but the small type grants the insurer the right to charge your parent’s credit card at a greatly inflated rate every month."

Posted to Minding Our Elders (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-26-2008
Loneliness In Elders Cause for Concern

Humans are social creatures and we all need a certain amount of social interaction. What I find frustrating, when I try to explain my need for solitude to people, is that most people seem to equate solitude with loneliness. They are not the same thing.

Posted to Minding Our Elders (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-20-2008
Yoga for People with Alzheimer’s is Showing Quality of Life Benefits

I suffered from severe migraines. As a person who'd been born limber, I hadn't considered it necessary to do much to stay that way, but I did think some poses in a book I received from a book club could possibly help my migraines. The moves were effortless for my young body, but I felt good when...

Posted to Minding Our Elders (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-18-2008
Medication and Lactose Intolerance: Are You Aware?

Lactose, described in the dictionary as, "A white crystalline substance obtained from whey and used in infant foods, bakery products, confections, and pharmaceuticals ... also called milk sugar," is in dairy products. Milk, cream and ice cream seem to bother people the most. Lactose intolerance...

Posted to Minding Our Elders (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-16-2008
Should Aging Parents With Dementia Lose the Right to Vote?

In those days, we’d have a garage full of modest-sized, plain white signs that said in large black letters, VOTE. Mom and her colleagues spent hours hauling these signs around town, asking people to please put them in their yards, then going back and collecting them prior to Election Day.

Posted to Minding Our Elders (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-14-2008

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