Your sister thinks your mom should go to assisted living and your brother thinks she’s fine at home. It’s common for family members to have different opinions on the best care plan for your parents. These decisions are life changing and emotional. [Read more…]
Change in management of an assisted living can bring a tidal wave of uncertainty for both the residents and their families. Will the local management team change? Will my loved one’s rent change? [Read more…]
When moving your loved one into an assisted living facility, you experience a loss of control over care. Power outages are an example of an event that can exacerbate this feeling. [Read more…]
Nocturnal leg cramps are common in aging adults as well as competitive athletes and can be a source of a great deal of pain. It is estimated that one third of adults over the age of 60, and half of the adults over 80 suffer from nighttime muscle cramps with 40% reporting pain several times per week. [Read more…]
Never in American history has a vaccine been developed, tested, and distributed to the public with the speed in which Covid has. For those older Americans, and people with compromised immune systems there seems to be little question as to whether to receive the vaccine or not, but what about the healthy population? [Read more…]