Two Parents With Dementia: How Do Caregivers Cope? Carol Bradley Bursack My mom and dad both have dementia. I am all alone taking care of them since my sister passed away I have no one to help me. I get sad and frustrated with them both. How do I deal with my feelings? These are powerful words from one Agingcare.com forum participant. It’s a “cry from the wild” which will touch the heart of most caregivers. Many of us feel alone when we are trying to care for our aging parents and there are no siblings to help, or if there are siblings, they can’t or won’t help. When we have one parent who has dementia, it is hard. When we have two, it is often nearly unbearable. My dad…
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4 Tips for Caring for Mom and Dad by: MP Dunleavey (MONEY Magazine) — Caring for an ailing or aging parent is never easy, but the challenges only multiply when Mom and Dad live far away. Nearly 7 million Americans care for an elderly relative from a distance, reports the National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC). If you’re among them, you know full well the guilt and anxiety of not being able to be there at a moment’s notice. That’s to say nothing of the financial stresses involved: Long-distance caregivers spend an average of $8,700 a year providing support to their loved ones, the NAC survey found — nearly twice as much as those who live closer. Travel accounts for most of the extra burden, but there are also expenses involved…
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If Spouse Has Dementia, Your Risk Rises, Too By Linda Carroll Stress of caregiving may be to blame for 6-fold increase, researchers say Being married to someone with dementia may sharply increase your own risk of developing the condition, a new study shows. Utah researchers found that seniors had six times the risk of developing dementia if they lived with a spouse who had been diagnosed with the condition, according to the study, which was published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. And the increased risk was substantially higher for husbands than for wives. “The good news is that most of the spouses did not develop dementia,” said the study’s lead author, Maria Norton, an associate professor in the department of Family, Consumer and Human Development at Utah…
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Here is an article I found that is very helpful for caregivers who are struggling with the loved one they are caring for. It offers different ways to look at the behavior and understand what they are trying to communicate to us. If you are a caregiver Wilkes Barre, and need help with elder care, visit us at www.comfortkeepers.com. When Your Loved One Resists Care “How many times has your mother refused to change her clothes? Has your father resisted getting out of bed? Has your wife pushed you away when you tried to brush her teeth? Many times a caregiver will be particularly frustrated by her loved one’s refusal to help himself. At times she can’t help but think that the person she cares for "36 hours a day"…
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Illness in the Family? How To Reduce Caregiver Stress (ARA) – Who would ever imagine a healthy college senior might suffer a stroke? But that’s exactly what happened to Nancy Worthen’s daughter, Maggie, at the end of her senior year at Smith College in Massachusetts. When Maggie fell into a coma after experiencing a brain stem stroke, one of the many stressful challenges Worthen faced was keeping family and friends from around the world updated on her daughter’s condition. "You just have so many people who want information and are trying to reach you," she says. "We wanted to make it simple for people to find out what was happening." Worthen turned to a resource that’s becoming increasingly popular among families and caregivers of patients who’ve experienced a serious…
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September is Healthy Aging Month and I wanted to share this great article from ageangel.com about how attitude can play an important role in how we feel as we get older. Celebrate a loved one and make their day! Random acts of kindness throughout the month can put a smile on the face of any senior! Visit www.comfortkeepers.com for the best in home care and assistance in the Hazleton PA area. What’s Age Got To Do With It? By Kelly Ferrin Stay Positive There are few greater feelings than being inspired and motivated. Regardless of what or who it is, or what we do that makes us tick — it’s important to feel positive and enthusiastic about life. So as summer comes to an end and we venture once again…
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A Guide For Making The Most Of Old Age Exercise, both physical and mental, has beneficial effects on people as they grow older. Adopting healthful habits can significantly alter the course of aging, even if you don’t start until you are middle-aged or older, growing research suggests. As more people live into their 80s, 90s and beyond, researchers are increasingly asking what it takes not just to survive but also to thrive in later years. Here is Consumer Reports’ guide to successful aging. Exercise your brain. Your brain needs a workout just as much as your arms and legs. Education and an active work life when you are younger can help ward off dementia later, perhaps by building a cognitive reserve so that small losses in function are not as…
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Comfort Keepers Franchises Take Action During Hunger Action Month Dayton, OH (PRWEB) September 7, 2010 Comfort Keepers® franchises across the nation are taking action during September – Hunger Action Month – to raise awareness of issues around senior nutrition through Comfort Keepers® STOP Senior Hunger food drives and educational events. “Seniors go hungry every day in our country, and our caregivers see first-hand how inadequate nutrition can diminish independence in seniors,” said Jim Booth, CEO of CK Franchising, Inc., the franchisor of Comfort Keepers in-home caregiving services, which is known for its unique Interactive Caregiving™ philosophy. “We want to take this opportunity to help raise awareness of seniors at risk for hunger and malnutrition in the communities we serve.” STOP Senior Hunger addresses a growing problem for older Americans. Today,…
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On the Road With, or Without, Elderly Parents By: DALE RUSSAKOFF It’s time for a vacation from everything stressful — work, commuting, heat, congestion. But what about care giving? Do adult children of elderly parents deserve a break from them, too? Plenty of New Old Age readers no doubt identify with a woman who, describing herself and her husband as “empty-nesters in our 50s,” recently raised this question in Slate’s provocative advice column, “Dear Prudence.” Bringing her husband’s 80-plus-year-old-parents along on vacations, the woman wrote, “is more stressful than going to work.” The older couple “cannot travel as they used to,” making it difficult for the 50-somethings to relax together, which their punishing jobs rarely allow them to do. Yet her mother-in-law calls almost nightly, she wrote, “begging us to…
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Stress and the Elderly Contrary to what we’ve been led to believe, senior living isn’t always the way it’s portrayed in glossy sales brochures and magazine advertisements. Rather than being a carefree period of life spent on the golf course and traveling around the world, for many of today’s seniors those “golden years” are incredibly stressful times. What causes seniors so much stress? Change is a huge trigger for stress and seniors definitely experience plenty of change. It can be in the form of declining health, death of friends and loved ones, moving, a bad financial investment, and the list goes on. Here are some other reasons why senior living is stressful. Continue reading HERE For information about how Comfort Keepers can help you and your family with the care…
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