How Can You Work Together with Other Family Members in Caregiving?
When you and other family members are able to come together as a team, this gives you a different caregiving situation than a lot of family caregivers face. You may still have some gaps in what you’re all able to do together, and this is where...
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Four Tips for Feeding a Picky Eater
It’s frustrating to watch your senior family member refuse to eat, meal after meal. Instead of getting into a fight with her about it, you might find that some of these tips help you to come to a compromise with her. [caption id="attachment_1447"...
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What Kinds of Notes Should You Keep about Your Senior’s Dementia?
Keeping a log book or journal about your senior’s dementia can help you to meet her needs more readily. It’s much easier to keep track of symptoms that she’s had for a while as well as new ones as soon as they show up. Your dementia log...
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What Qualifies as Self-care?
Self-care is one of the more important things you can take care of as a caregiver. You have to make sure that you’re doing what you need to do for yourself so that you can do anything at all for the other people in your life. [caption...
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What Can Your Senior Eat if She Needs to Stick with...
If your elderly family member is in need of soft food ideas, you both might have gotten a little bit frustrated trying to think of different ideas that are also interesting. These options might help a bit. [caption id="attachment_1435"...
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Four Tips for Reducing COPD Exacerbations
When your elderly family member is experiencing worse symptoms than usual with her COPD, that’s called an exacerbation. An exacerbation can be the warning right before a lung infection takes hold. If your senior is prone to flare-ups, you can take...
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