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May 26, 2020
Dementia and COVID-19
Essential Caregiver Skills

Caring for someone who is living with Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia can be challenging, and even more so during significant changes to their structure and routines during a pandemic. First, the Alzheimer’s Association points out that ...
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May 26, 2020
Read All About It: Caregiving for Dads
Essential Caregiver Skills

Maybe since women tend to statistically live longer than men, people often think of caring for Mom when the time comes. However, Dads need care too as life changes and their adult children have stories to tell about the experiences. Sometimes it can be ...
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May 26, 2020
New to Caregiving for a Loved One?
Senior Care & Aging

Becoming a family caregiver can happen suddenly, without planning or preparation by either party. The need will vary depending on the individual and their health status, which will in turn affect the impact on their loved ones. Here are a few tips to help ...
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Apr 27, 2020
Physical Distancing vs. Social Distancing
Senior Care & Aging

One headline read, “Just What Older People Didn’t Need: More Isolation” in reference to stay-at-home orders, closures to visitors at many assisted living and other types of group living facilities, and “social distancing” guidelines given in response to ...
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Apr 27, 2020
Ageism and Illness
Family Caregiver

Since the earliest warning signs about the novel coronavirus it became clear that, for reasons that are still not completely understood, elderly people were the most likely to become seriously ill. As the new disease quickly spread and countries began ...
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Apr 27, 2020
Beware Scams in the Time of Coronavirus
In-Home Safety

Tragedy doesn’t just bring out the best in people and scammers are hard at work trying to take advantage of others during the global pandemic. A scammer is a modern-day thief, whose one goal is to separate a person from their money by either selling a ...
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Mar 26, 2020
Safety Precautions: What It Means
Essential Caregiver Skills

Professional caregivers have always been given training and protocols on how to keep themselves and their clients safe from illness. After all, it is the job of a caregiver to keep people safe and to encourage a healthy lifestyle, whether that means ...
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Mar 19, 2020
COVID-19: How One Family Caregiver Copes with the Changes
Senior Care & Aging

Lisa Shultz, author and family caregiver, is a family caregiver to her mother. In March, she was suddenly informed that her weekly visits were suspended to see her mom in an assisted living facility in response to the COVID-19 virus and efforts to reduce ...
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Mar 17, 2020
Social Distancing and Elder Care
In-Home Safety

To the majority of people, the term “social distancing” is a new one, but to many older people it is all too familiar. Now is a time to look at safe ways to interact while also building new understanding. “Let’s remember this: the whole of American society ...
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