Spotlighting Elder Care
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Carol B.
I'm am continually amazed, these days, at the enormous visibility of elder care. I shouldn't be. The numbers are there. But during the two decades I struggled through child/eldercare issues, I was nearly invisible. "Sandwich Generation" was a term co ...
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Advocating for elder care
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jodigirl
... y or a particular physician. I guess that judgment necessarily means that I consider the problems to be systemic to both the delivery of medical care and medical care to the elderly. Ouch.In April 2007, the hospital administered general anesthesia to my dad as he went through bowel resection. Dad experienced an adverse event as he came out of th ...
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Ethnic Elder Care a Growing Movement
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Carol B.
... lture than another to make a decision to "put them in a home." For most of us, it's wretching, confusing and anxiety provoking to make a decision that we need outside help to care for our elders. However, with people living longer, often with disabling conditions from strokes or dementia, we often have no choice but to get help. I address the progr ...
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MSUM Students Promote Elder Care
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Carol B.
Minnesota State University Moorhead Public Relations students have been given the assignment to promote elder care options in our metro area (Fargo, ND and Moorhead, MN). I think the professor who thought of this is a genius. The whole project is making students more aware of the prob ...
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Elder Care Experts Gather for Teleseminar
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Carol B.
... en a long time in coming. I believe it is worth the wait. Cindi Dawson produced the product. I was honored to be asked to participate. Cindi interviewed 12 top names in elder care and put together this product. She hopes it will help anyone wanting to plan for the inevitable day when elder care becomes part of his or her life, or help someone alrea ...
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Need Caregivers for Elder Care Article
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Carol B.
Hey friends -A writer is looking for "subjects" for a project headed for a major magazine. She needs caregivers who are willing to share their story and have his or her picture published as well as that of the person they are caring for. If you are interested, email Winnie at ...
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Elder Care: Humanizing the Approach
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Carol B.
... oday. Science Daily presents an article about some research done by Central Michigan University professor of anthropology Athena McLean. The article, titled "Humanizing Elder Care May Extend Patients' Lives" presents an important concept.
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Elder Care, Caregiving and Medication Control
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Carol B.
My 82-year-old mother lives alone. She takes a lot of medications and I am worried that she might not take the proper pills at the proper times.The a doctor's answer: "Elderly people are most definitely at an increased risk for problems related to the use of prescription drugs, nonprescription (or over-the-counter) medicines, and herbal or o ...
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Refusing to Visit an Elder in a Care Center
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Carol B.
... ote about some issues that can accompany these visits, such as the shock of seeing a parent in worse shape than expected, and the flip side of that, problems for the hands-on caregiver to handle in the aftermath of the visit.Read more about reluctant visitor at nursing homes:
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Elder Care and Family Meetings: The Ideal
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Carol B.
... et along. When our parents start to show their age, we'd all meet, including them, and make decisions regarding their future. We, the adult children, would equally divide all caregiving that needs to be done - and then we lived happily ever after. Sorry, I couldn't avoid the last few words.
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