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What to look for when visiting aging parents — and how to talk about it
You will see her properly for the first time in months, and so will your brother. What to observe on a holiday visit, and the conversations to have before you arrive.
Will it be the same caregiver every time? Why the answer matters
Most agencies send whoever is available. Continuity is harder to schedule and it changes what care can do. What to ask any agency before you commit. Pairs with: the 19 October social post — same day
Caregiver burnout: the signs families miss in themselves
Ask a family caregiver how she is and she will tell you how her mother is. What burnout actually looks like before it has a name, and why rest is not a reward you earn.
Home safety for aging parents: five small changes that prevent falls
Most falls happen because a house was designed for a younger version of the person living in it. Five changes you can make this weekend, no builder required.
"He can do it when he wants to" — why dementia looks like stubbornness
Your father tells a twenty-minute story about 1962, then can't work the microwave. It looks like choosing. It almost never is — and what you do next matters.
Memory care at home: what the Montessori Method changes
Most memory care starts with what a person has lost. The Montessori Method starts at the other end. What that changes, and why home is often the better setting for it.
Equitable doesn't mean equal: dividing care between siblings
One of you lives twelve minutes away and one of you lives in another state. Splitting the care down the middle was never going to work — here's what does.
Crisis is the worst time to decide — and it's when most families do
Most families make their biggest care decisions in the 48 hours after a fall or a hospital stay, exhausted and on somebody else's timetable. There's a better window, and it's earlier.
The first days home from the hospital
Discharge day feels like the end of something. For most families it is the start of the hardest week. Here is what to have ready before she comes home
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