Over the last several years, we have posted a series of pieces to help caregivers care for an aging loved one. You can find most of the key posts in this roundup:
Planning ahead
- Why you and your loved ones should create advance directives
- Caring for your loved ones: Ten key pieces of information you need
- Financial scams: Beware of strangers offering help
Caring for an older friend or relative
If you do not live in the same city:
- How to be a good long distance caregiver
- Sensors offer peace of mind for caregivers
- How to prepare for a visit
If you live nearby:
- Keeping parents healthy–walking, water, watch out for delirium
- How to help someone you love decide when to stop driving
- Caring for someone with a serious mental illness
- Caring for a loved one with mild dementia
No matter where you live:
- Five ways to ensure the people you love are safe and healthy
- Your rights to make medical decisions for the people you love
Caring for a loved one with dementia or other serious condition
- How to communicate with a person with dementia
- Understanding the emotional impact of dementia
- How to support a loved one diagnosed with a serious condition
Resources for caregivers
Resources to benefit your loved ones:
- Important resources for older adults
- Free transportation improves health for isolated older adults
- Care Act assists family caregivers
Resources to help yourself:
- Five tips to relieve caregiver strain
- Help for caregivers who leave their jobs
- To help relieve stress, understand caregiver strain
- Tech innovations to help caregivers
Housing that comes with caregiving
- Grandfamily housing: A means to support multigenerational caregiving
- PACE helps older adults stay in their community
- Medicare covers limited home health care
When the caregiving ends
- Freedom’s just another word for no one left to lose
- Coping and grieving after the loss of a loved one
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