In this video, certified senior advisor Mary Alexander from Home Instead Senior Care will provide tips on how to take action and where to find help if you feel your aging parent needs assistance.
There are 2 types of vitamins. People who are water soluble and those who aren\'t, that\'s, are fat soluble. Examples are Vitamin C and therefore the B complicated vitamins. The fat soluble ones dissolve in fat and they\'re stored within the liver .You would like not take these everyday. These are Vitamin A, D, K and E. These can be stored within the fat tissues for some days to 6 months. If these are taken in excess they will accumulate, they\'ll be dangerous. Vitamin C is a powerful ......
There comes a time in all of our lives when the roles reverse. Suddenly, we are no longer the child and the parenting skills we\'ve so carefully honed with our own kids now need to be turned toward our aging parents. These tips will help you focus on the important issues of organizing an aging parent....
Depression may be a disorder that affects approximately 18.8 million American adults in some form. It\'s therefore very seemingly that everybody will at some point in their life be laid low with depression, whether it be their own or someone else\'s. Of all the people with depression, only one-third of them ask for the necessary medical treatment....
Traveling with the elderly can be fun, but also potentially dangerous for their health. This article explains precautions which should be taken to ensure that they remain safe, healthy, and comfortable during your trip....
We all wished not only we could stay young forever but we feel the same thing about our parents. It\'s hard for us to watch them grow older and eventually having to rely upon us to give them the help and support that they once gave us....
On 9/11 two families I knew from my swim club lost their husband/father. There aren't enough adjectives to describe the emotions we all felt not only for those poor, young families. There was, however, also a sense that many of us (the members) dodged a bullet, for it could have been any one of us who lost a family member. I remember telling my wife, shortly after 9/11, that I was just sitting in a seminar in the towers two weeks before. My friend had a 9 a.m. business meeting in the towers the week before. Another friend had to cancel a meeting on 9/11 for personal reasons. Any one of us could have been "them". So where are these struggling families now? Every summer I still see them at the swim club. The kids are getting bigger. They run around with my kids and my friends' kids, smiling and laughing and living. I see the mothers at various little parties at the Tikki Bar, drinking and laughing and living. Their lives are certainly different. Their Dads are missing from the picture. But there they are living the same lifestyle they had before 9/11....
Addiction to drugs and alcohol among our children covers the entire social and economic spectrum in our society. Many ascribe addiction to poor parenting, however while poor parenting can contribute to the addiction problem, good parenting does not prevent it. Some families have one addicted child while their other children, living in the same environment, do not become addicts....
It's common knowledge that everyone ages. And unfortunately part of aging is watching your parents get older also. I've had a front row seat to my mother's aging process. Sometimes it's even a audience participation event. I have to take her to her doctor visits now because driving out of our small town has started to make her nervous....
Millions of Americans are now caring for their parents as we live longer with advances in modern medicine. When doing so, a new trend is emerging in the area of elder law planning, the "sister" of estate planning. Some Americans are now entering into legal agreements, sometimes referred to as "caregiver agreements", in order to compensate children who are providing care giving services....
To have the correct positive self-image, a youth requires self satisfaction. To have a good chance at life, your child must have self-confidence. A child who feels good about himself will seize opportunities and enjoy life. Studies have proven that a child with self confidence is likely to succeed in all areas of life. The majority of kids are more socially involved too, and they are skilled at interacting and making friends....