Caregiving

You don’t usually need the tissue box at your side when you watch a commercial, but Gillette has now done the unlikely- bring you to tears while watching a man get his face shaved.  More specifically, the new Gillette Treo razor is billed as the first razor specifically made for…

Keeping in touch with friends often requires effort and attention, especially if distance or divergent interests threaten to separate you. What happens, then, when a friend is diagnosed with dementia? Is it possible, and preferable, to continue the friendship, especially as your friend’s cognitive abilities decline? According to new research…

You may not realize it but China faces a greater crisis of an aging population than nearly any other nation on earth. The one-child policy of China has meant that as seniors age out of the workforce, there are fewer younger people to enter fill in the gaps, or help care…

For years, working women have struggled to juggle the demands of work with their role as mothers. And now, there’s a newer ball thrown in the mix of that balancing act- the tension of being a caregiving daughter for aging parents while also working (and many working women deal with the…

Maybe you’ve finally convinced your older loved one that it’s time to hire some help. And maybe you’ve even figured out how to pay for that. Now it’s on to the hiring process. But how do you know what questions to ask and what information to elicit, especially if you’ve…

Does this sound familiar? Your elderly mom, who lives alone, has not picked up the phone for several hours. You begin to wonder: Is something wrong? Should I call the police? Well, it could be that your mom lives in a place where the police can call her. It turns…