Should You Consider Hospice Care for Your Loved One? The term “hospice,” with its Latin root shared with “hospitality” raises mental images of caring…
Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) in the Elderly When the elderly suffer a loss, caregivers need to recognize the signs of grief and…
4 Reasons Men Have a Shorter Life Expectancy Many families’ older generations are made up of matriarchs without mates. Why is this so?…
Where Do I Go from Here? When a Family Caregiver Loses a Parent or Elderly Relative Caregiving is a labor of love, especially if you are a family caregiver. You make…
Why and How We Are Doing the Final Days Wrong Although as a society we work hard to adopt aging-in-place more widely and implement enlightened…
What to do When a Loved One Dies at Home If you are acting as the caregiver for an ailing elderly loved one, the prospect…
“As I Lay Dying”: Midwifing a Person’s Passage As we age and as we witness others age, our thoughts inevitably move into the…