Which Nutrients Tend to Be Missing From Older People’s Diets?
It's estimated that as many as 62 percent of hospitalized senior citizens suffer from malnutrition. Those who are 75 or older, are low income, or live in rural areas have the highest risk. There is a misconception that malnutrition leads to...
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Why Do Cognitive Screenings Make Alzheimer’s Patients so Agitated?
As a family caregiver, one experience that can be stressful is a cognitive screening. It's a common occurrence when your parent has Alzheimer's. It's also one thing many Alzheimer's patients absolutely despise. On these appointment days, stress...
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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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