I just finished reading A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents — and Ourselves, by Jane Gross, founder of the New York Times’ New Old Age blog. A chronicle of her mother’s last years, the book is part love story, part cautionary tale. Jane Gross bravely shares intimate details of her family’s journey down … Read more
I once heard a family member complain at the nursing station about a parent being on antidepressants. “She can’t remember a thing. How can she be depressed?” The nurse replied, “I know.” To clear up this common misunderstanding, Marc E. Agronin, MD, author of How We Age: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Growing … Read more
Guest Post by Kitty Holman: Nursing home staff are a tireless group of professionals and medical personnel striving to care and advocate for Americans elderly. From administrators and nurses to social workers and therapists, the number of people needed to keep nursing homes running smoothly is great. To help these professionals stay abreast of relevant … Read more
Dale Carter, founder of TransitionAgingParents and author of “Transitioning Your Aging Parent: A 5 Step Guide Through Crisis & Change,” contributed today’s post. With many families scattered around the country, it is a challenge to visit our aging parents as often as we would like. And, once our parents need nursing home care and move … Read more
I saw an article yesterday in the Health section of the New York Times describing the difficulty of younger people to imagine what life might be like in later years, particularly in nursing homes. I thought readers would appreciate it. The old woman had drawn down the shade in her room — hoping, I imagined, … Read more
Listen to me and David Solie, MS, PA, author of How To Say It To Seniors: Closing the Communication Gap with Our Elders, in the program, What Do Nursing Home Residents Discuss with their Shrinks? You can hear the free half-hour BlogTalkRadio show, recorded on February 27, 2010, by clicking HERE.
Today’s guest post is from Denise Tyler, PhD, of Brown University’s Center for Gerontology & Health Care Research. The LTCfocUS website she writes about contains an invaluable tool that allows the user to input variables such as resident demographics and facility staffing, and creates maps and tables of nursing homes in the US based on … Read more