Around the year 2000, my father, in his mid-80s, lost his eyesight. The remaining 3 years of his life were a lesson in watching and learning about the ravages of depression and loss on the elderly. Following his death, I scrambled up that steep learning curve of understanding and managing the care of my equally aged mother who has increasing dementia.
My blog perspective is this:...
ParentYourParents.com is an eldercare information website.
Ideally you will start having health care, legal, and financial conversations with your parents when you are in your 40’s and they are in their 70’s. The information on this site is provided to help you navigate through difficult discussions and make tough decisions, and to encourage you to plan for challenges you and...
Over the span of two decades, author, columnist, consultant and speaker Carol Bradley Bursack cared for a neighbor and six elderly family members. As a result of this experience, Bradley Bursack wrote "Minding Our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories," a portable support group for caregivers.
"Minding Our Elders" is used as a college text for gerontology...
After working with seniors and their families in Indianapolis area assisted living and nursing homes I decided it was time to empower families with knowledge to make informed choices. I developed www.agingavenues.com as a portal of elder care information, community resources and a complete provider directory. Aging Avenues also helps families one on one when it's time to make a difficult...
Mark Willaman is founder and president of Fisher Vista, LLC, the owners of HRmarketer.com, HRmarketer Services Group, SeniorCareMarketer.com, SeniorCareMarketer Services Group and ShirleyBOARD.com. Mark has over fifteen years of proven success in the human resource and healthcare industries. In addition to being a pioneer in the use of web-based technologies for the delivery of employee...
I am a registered nurse, geriatric case manager, and national expert in senior care with over 30 years caring and advocating for seniors. I own Visiting Angels senior homecare agency in Ann Arbor, Michigan since 2002. www.visitingangels.com/annarbor
It is my privilege and honor to be able to help seniors and their families with education, information and resources related to...
I specialize in Family Medicine & Geriatrics. While the latter focuses on care of the elderly, the former encompasses the life cycle from cradle-to-grave and womb-to-tomb, regardless of sex or age.
But I practice medicine with a twist - I don't settle for good enough. How often do you hear that from your physician - "it's good enough". But good enough for what?
Sure, a...
