Being a caregiver to someone with dementia can be very challenging, especially if it’s hard to make conversation or to just feel like you’ve connected with the one you are …
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The Comfort of Our Own Things
There just might come a time when you have to move mom or dad into your own home or into an assisted living facility. This scenario must rank among the …
Continue ReadingA Meditation on Walking Your Way to Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Health
“Go take a walk.” That can be good advice instead of a dismissal. A simple walk once a day is an easy, cost-free, effective, safe — and enjoyable — physical …
Continue ReadingHow to Call A Halt To Your Digital Legacy—If You Can
Even though your digital assets are pretty much immortal — even material you think you deleted — a few websites have tackled the issue of how to handle your digital …
Continue ReadingWill Your Digital Legacy Be Immortal?
As mortals we all recognize we will eventually pass on and be survived by family and friends. We also all recognize that shortly after our passing, our home, our physical …
Continue ReadingBuilding a New Old Age: Elderhood
The Transforming Aging Summit, a three-day virtual event held recently, made the heady promise of delivering teachings and practices to inspire listeners to “age with grace and positivity and create …
Continue ReadingSpring Cleaning – Making it Easier to Keep House
Years ago, our grannies and mamas knew that spring and summertime were a busy time of the year, so they got ready for gardening and animal caring by doing a …
Continue ReadingPaying for a Funeral—and Common Pitfalls to Avoid
If you’ve ever been involved in creating final arrangements for another person—making decisions about transporting and burying or disposing of the body, choosing a container or casket, planning a service …
Continue ReadingAsk or You Won’t Receive – Getting Help with Caregiving
Tunnel vision is common among caregivers. We often think we have to carry the whole job alone even when we’re feeling tired and overwhelmed. We don’t consider the risks of …
Continue ReadingThe Happiest Time of Life
Who are the happiest people you know? If you think about it very long, you might conclude that an older person in your life is perhaps the happiest. Research has …
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