Cognitive Therapy for Seniors with Dementia
Memory loss, or dementia, can leave both the senior and family members suffering form loneliness, sadness and the challenges of daily living knowing forgetting will be part of each day. New therapies are being researched, but integrating art as one therpy has proven to be positive. Bob Tell, author of Dementia-Diary, A Caregiver’s Journal, shares this […]
CLASS Act: Long-term Care Insurance on Hold Now
Senior care can cost from $80 to $300 per day, when full service hands-on care is needed. You can check out the daily costs of nursing homes nationwide and also learn about senior home care services in your area to understand the rates and services offered. In an effort to help pay for senior caregiving services, former Senator Ted […]
Long-term Care Insurance for All: Included in Healthcare Law CLASS Act pays for senior and disability care
The CLASS Act (CLASS = Community Living Assistance Services), was established as a part of the new healthcare law. As senior caregiving services are currently not paid for by Medicare, the health insurance program for all U.S. seniors beginning at age 65, the CLASS Act would be a way to pay for senior caregiving services. The CLASS Act specifics have a […]
Elderly Driving Tests: AARP Defensive Driving Safety Courses for Seniors
Senior driving always comes under the spotlight after a major accident happens involving a senior. However, just as some younger drivers are better than others, many older drivers are also perfectly capable of driving safely. Aging does present some challenges, as eyesight may diminish if Macular Degeneration has developed or there is hearing loss or […]
Elder Abuse Lawyer Awarded MacArthur Genius Grant
Marie-Therese Connolly, a Washington DC-based elder-abuse activist is one of the 22 new MacArthur Fellows for 2011. Ms. Connolly was pivotal in the drafting and passage of the Elder Justice Act, enacted in 2010. It was the first piece of federal legislation to address the issue specifically. In awarding the grant, the foundation stated that […]
Respite Caregiving Services for Families Expands
The lifespan Respite Care Program, administered by the Administration on Aging, has delivered grants to 29 states and the District of Columbia since 2009. Assistant Secretary for Aging Kathy Greenlee announced this week that more than $1.1 million in additional funding has been awarded to Delaware, Nevada, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas […]
Senior Communities Emerge on University Campuses
Not content with the retirement lifestyle of their parents’ generation, aging baby boomers are finding a viable alternative lifestyle on a variety of college campuses. Seniors are taking college courses, attending campus cultural and sports events, making use of college fitness facilities and university health services and enjoying inter-generational social interaction by going back to […]
Senior Caregiver Training: 10-Hour Certification
Caregivers for seniors must be able to demonstrate many skills in order to deliver quality care, from understanding how to manage and assist the senior with daily activities of living to managing other health care professionals and family members. Technology now allows quality training skills to be shared with everyone online. Caregiverlist’s 10-hour online caregiver […]
Give Forward: Paying for Senior Care
Paying for senior care can be a challenge for seniors and their family members. When seniors turn age 65 in the USA, they go onto the government health insurance program called Medicare. Very low income seniors who have less than $2,000 in assets may qualify for Medicaid instead of Medicare, which provides a few more […]
Siblings Caring for Aging Parents
When my mother brought my brother home from the hospital for the first time, she joked that she had had another child so I wouldn’t be alone in taking care of her in her “old age”. Now that she needs the assistance, I am grateful for a sibling who shares the responsibility of caring for […]
Chicago Memory Walk: Remembering President Reagan
Chicago hosts the Alzheimer’s Memory Walk today, raising money and awareness for the disease. The Alzheimer’s Association’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s began in 1989 and is the nation’s largest event to bring attention to Alzheimer’s care, support and research initiatives. The nation’s 6th leading cause of death, Alzheimer’s disease also can take a financial toll […]
Viral Video: Sweet Elderly Couple Using WebCam for First Time
Caregivers for seniors know the challenges when introducing new schedules, routines and medical equipment. Enjoy this video, which has become the most viewed YouTube video of the day, of an elderly couple trying to use a Webcam for the first time. http://mashable.com/2011/09/17/elderly-couple-viral-video/
