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Moving Is a Monumental Task for Many Older Americans. These Organizers Can Help.

Moving Is a Monumental Task for Many Older Americans. These Organizers Can Help.

by External Article | May 20, 2023 | Housing | 0 comments

“It’s not just packing and unpacking,” Ms. Buysse said. “It’s working with the clients and the family for weeks or months, going through a lifetime of possessions. You need to be a good listener.” … My sister and I hired a senior move manager for our father, who...
Moving Is a Monumental Task for Many Older Americans. These Organizers Can Help.

Who Will Care for ‘Kinless’ Seniors?

by External Article | Dec 3, 2022 | Caring for a Friend, Caring for a Neighbor, For Friends & Family, Planning | 0 comments

When her sister died three years ago, Ms. Ingersoll joined the ranks of older Americans considered “kinless”: without partners or spouses, children or siblings. Covid-19 has largely suspended her occasional get-togethers with friends, too. Now, she said, “my social...
Sizing Up the Decisions of Older Adults

Sizing Up the Decisions of Older Adults

by External Article | May 9, 2022 | Finances, For Friends & Family, Long Term Caregiving | 0 comments

Adult Protective Services agencies in every state receive reports of possible neglect, self-neglect, abuse or exploitation of older people and other vulnerable adults. But agency workers consistently face a bedeviling question: Does the adult in question have the...
Moving Is a Monumental Task for Many Older Americans. These Organizers Can Help.

In Difficult Cases, ‘Families Cannot Manage Death at Home’

by External Article | Mar 26, 2022 | Death & Dying | 0 comments

Where do people most want to be when they die? At home, they tell researchers — in familiar surroundings, in comfort, with the people they love. an article this month in The New England Journal of Medicine that pointedly asks, “Is There Really ‘No Place Like Home’?”...
Moving Is a Monumental Task for Many Older Americans. These Organizers Can Help.

Meet the Underdog of Senior Care

by External Article | Mar 12, 2022 | Finances, Housing, Long Term Caregiving | 0 comments

Ms. Biteranta now receives all of her health care through PACE, which monitors her, along with 120 other seniors, meticulously. PACE supplies much of her social life, too. “Here, they schedule you for appointments,” said Ms. Biteranta, 74, a retired nurse. “They send...
Having Dementia Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Vote

Having Dementia Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Vote

by External Article | Oct 14, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Silent generation | 1 comment

“In my family, voting was the highest honor of citizenship,” his daughter, Judith Kozlowski, said. “You owed it to your country to vote; that was always the message.” It remains important to Mr. Kozlowski, now a resident of an independent living facility in Chevy...
For Older Patients, an ‘Afterworld’ of Hospital Care

For Older Patients, an ‘Afterworld’ of Hospital Care

by External Article | Sep 17, 2019 | Care Work Library, Death & Dying, Long Term Caregiving | 0 comments

The facility is called an L.T.C.H., a long-term care hospital (also known as a long-term acute care hospital). It’s where patients often land when an ordinary hospital is ready to discharge them, often after a stay in intensive care. But these patients are still too...
Think Your Aging Parents Are Stubborn? Blame ‘Mismatched Goals’

Think Your Aging Parents Are Stubborn? Blame ‘Mismatched Goals’

by External Article | Aug 30, 2019 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Long Term Caregiving | 0 comments

To what extent, the researchers asked middle-aged adults, do your parents ignore suggestions or advice that would make their lives easier or safer? Ignore instructions from their doctors? Insist on doing things their own way, even if that makes their own or others’...
A risk in caring for abusive parents

A risk in caring for abusive parents

by External Article | Jan 20, 2014 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent | 0 comments

Who could condemn someone for staying far away from a parent, even an ailing or dying parent, who mistreated him or her as a child? We know relatively little about how many adults become caregivers for abusive or neglectful parents, or about why they choose to — or...
Moving Is a Monumental Task for Many Older Americans. These Organizers Can Help.

When Aggression Follows Dementia

by External Article | Jul 12, 2013 | Care Work Library, Housing | 0 comments

Let’s be clear: physically aggressive behavior arises in a sizable minority of dementia patients — a German study of nursing home patients published last year put the proportion at nearly 29 percent — but those most endangered are the people with dementia themselves...
The Undeserving Parent

The Undeserving Parent

by External Article | Oct 20, 2011 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent | 0 comments

[Her mother] hit Wendy when she was a teenager who stumbled at night and awakened her. She hit Wendy when she was a bride-to-be trying on wedding gowns. “To this day, when she hears something she doesn’t like, she still says, ‘I’ll smack you,’” Wendy told me in an...
They can’t go home again

They can’t go home again

by External Article | Dec 1, 2010 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent | 0 comments

Few subjects generate as much contention and heartache hereabouts as siblings and the role they play, or don’t play, in caring for aging parents. Which led me to wonder: What about those absent children? What’s the view from their side of the divide? In Ms. Barnes’s...
Caregiving without siblings

Caregiving without siblings

by External Article | Oct 19, 2010 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent | 0 comments

Research shows that even when there are several adult children, just one (a daughter, usually) emerges as the so-called primary caregiver and handles the bulk of her parents’ care. But Ms. Milgram-Bossong finds that minor consolation. “Even if I had a sibling in...

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