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No Place Like Home for Aging Parents? Maybe, Maybe Not (Follow Up) by David S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alzheimer's & Dementia Leslie Peters was my guest on a recent blogtalk radio show I host ( http://www.blogtalkradio.com/solie/2009/11/07/no-place-like-home-for-aging-paren ). I asked her to prov ... Read on »

A Blog Worth Repeating by David S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alzheimer's & Dementia Dr. Patrick Roden has a wonderful blog entitled “Aging in Place.” Below is the link to his latest post on September 14, 2009. It will do your heart good… Successful Agi ... Read on »

Sibling Infighting: How Do You Recover? by David S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alzheimer's & Dementia The real work of families is recovery. In the volatile landscape of family systems, everything is exaggerated, both good and bad. One of the predictable “bad” events in th ... Read on »

The Talk of Life: Organic Legacy, Out Loud by David S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alzheimer's & Dementia “What’s so important about saying it out load?” I was asked a few months ago during a Q&A session at the end of one of my presentations that talked about “creating an organi ... Read on »

End of Life Convesations: From A Doctor’s Perspective by David S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alzheimer's & Dementia My wife Janet shared with me a very moving article about end of life conversations from a doctor’s perspective entitled: Talking Frankly at the End of Life. Here is the link ... Read on »

Artificial Aging: The Developmental Implications of Dying Too Soon by David S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alzheimer's & Dementia A woman in her early sixties was dying of a terminal illness. Her parents were gone, which left a younger sister as her only means of family support. But there was long st ... Read on »

Too Close For Comfort: Navigating the increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease by David S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alzheimer's & Dementia Alzheimer’s disease extracts a toll across generations. Its diagnosis in an aging parent creates an immediate crisis for the offspring who must come to terms with their inc ... Read on »

When The Bottom Falls Out Mind Map ™ by David S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alzheimer's & Dementia Here is a When The Bottom Falls Out Mind Map ™ that I created for a family where the aging parents told their adult children they were going to wait until they “needed to pl ... Read on »

Magical Thinking and Aging Parents by David S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alzheimer's & Dementia Aging creates complexity and emotional burden. Aging parents find themselves facing situations and decisions that are hard to figure out and even more challenging to manage ... Read on »

Caregiver Brain Changes by David S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alzheimer's & Dementia Much has been written about the brain issues of aging parents. Less has been written about the brain issues that impact middle age adults. Given that the majority of careg ... Read on »

What I Know Now: Lessons From Looking Back by David S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alzheimer's & Dementia Last June I was interviewed by Nell Bernstein, Senior Editor at Caring.com about what “I would have done differently” in caring for my mother based on what I know now. Belo ... Read on »

Bitter Endings by David S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alzheimer's & Dementia We wished things had turned out different. They didn’t. History and personalities brought the drama of our aging parents to its only logical and painful conclusion. But a ... Read on »

Working with Low Income Seniors by David S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alzheimer's & Dementia I was recently asked by a large medicare provider how my work on the developmental tasks of seniors could be used by their patient advocates with a predominately low income ... Read on »

Aging Parents: No Plan For Paying The Bills by David S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alzheimer's & Dementia A recent survey conducted by AgingCare.com only reinforced was most of us boomers know about the reality of paying for the care of aging parents. It found that 63% of careg ... Read on »

Helping Our Aging Parents Regain Their Balance in Times of Transition by David S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alzheimer's & Dementia Our aging parents are negotiating a dense web of personal transitions in the last phase of life. As Nancy Gordon points out in her article, Spiritual Care in Times of Trans ... Read on »

Emotional Habits: Managing the Stress of Caring for Aging Parents by David S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alzheimer's & Dementia The drama of our aging parents takes place in an emotional landscape, an environment that can overwhelm us without warning or apparent logic. We seem to be bobbing corks on ... Read on »

My Mom Hates Me by David S. Patient Expert

1 Comment Posted in: Blog Posts in Alzheimer's & Dementia I receive a steady stream of emails from adult children who are trying to work with angry older parents. In most cases, these caregivers are trying to find the best solutio ... Read on »

Staying Afloat–New Book Review by David S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alzheimer's & Dementia I just finished reading a new book by Sheryl Karas, MA entitledThe Spiritual Journey of Family Caregiving. It is a compendium of newsletters she wrote from 2000 to 2005 whi ... Read on »

How Do We Get Them To Move? by David S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Questions & Answers in Alzheimer's & Dementia We don’t. Older adults see where they live as the Alamo and will make their last stand defending it. We advance with logic, manipulations, and threats and they use any mea ... Read on »

Second Thoughts by David S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alzheimer's & Dementia When a parent passes away, we take on a new kind of work. I am not referring to the necessary “estate chores” of filing papers or clearing out the house. I am referring to ... Read on »

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