Tuesday Tips ~ Enabling Good Communication: A Caregiving Approach
Enabling Good Communication: A Caregiving Approach One primary task of family caregiving is ensuring your loved one’s needs are met. To do so, family caregivers must practice good communication strategies to listen to their love one’s wants, desires, and health needs....
Tuesday Tips for Caregivers – How to Recognize Eating Disorders in the Elderly
We often think of eating disorders only affecting younger people. Because of this misconception, eating disorders in the elderly are often missed or misdiagnosed. Stress is the most common cause of an eating disorder. Our elderly loved ones may be dealing with...
Tuesday Tips for Caregivers ~ Family Caregiving and Financial Planning
Family Caregiving and Financial Planning In many aspects of life, financial planning can save a lot of headaches and stress. When a loved one has been diagnosed with an illness or if you are beginning to care for an aging loved one, then financial planning may get...
Tuesday Tips for Caregivers ~ Alzheimer’s vs. Dementia: What’s the Difference?
Alzheimer’s vs. Dementia: What’s the Difference? On ElderCare’s blog, we talk a lot about dementia and Alzheimer’s without really going into the differences between these two terms. In this post, we will provide definitions for Alzheimer’s and dementia, what the...
Tuesday Tips for Caregivers ~ Unpaid Caregiving and Seeking Help
Unpaid Caregiving and Seeking Help In Florida, around 2.9 million people provided informal care to a family member, totaling to an estimated 2.4 billion hours of care per year.[1] According to the AARP, these unpaid hours amounts to around $31 billion. Family members...Best Alzheimer’s Blog 2020
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