Keeping Older Adults Independent

Family Caregiver Fatigue is on the Rise What Can I Do To Help a Parent Caring for Another Parent I recently wrote about the negative impact caregiving can have on family caregivers, particularly in minority populations.  Caring for someone else takes an emotional and physical toll on your body , much of this is overlooked for the 1 in 3 adults in the United States that provide informal care.  Healthcare workers, caregivers and informal family caregivers all share the love for providing that much needed care that can be very rewarding but also trigger a variety of emotions at times.  It is normal to feel sad, angry, frustrated and sometimes demoralized in this line of work.  There are couple simple ways you can help a family member that is going through this as a family caregiver.     Make Yourself Available  When a parent is caring for another parent (they are called the family caregiver), it is often hard to get involved as you hear b...

  Daily Check-ins on Seniors Help Improve Their Health Adult children are balancing three main pillars of their life constantly, where each one by itself can consume the majority of a day.  Career, family and social life are the ever-shifting pillars that require attention each day. However, each of these pillars of our lives has subcategories within them that are difficult to manage routinely.  For example, raising a new family with children consumes a majority of the adult child's life now, often sacrificing social life to make up for the insufficient amount of time in a day to get kids to sports activities.  Within the family pillar also lies our parents or older adult family members that increasingly need our help with time.  We as adult children often let this portion slip from our priorities, forgetting to check-in on seniors, not because we are bad people but because often times with young children in our new family, we prioritize the young members over...