Posts from 2017 December 26, 2017 Six Signs of Senior Isolation and Depression and Six Ways to Help I have a friend in Tampa whose Mom, a 78 year-old woman in small town Kentucky, was diagnosed with alcohol-related dementia. Her Mom has not accepted this diagnosis and does not recognize the symptoms she displays to everyone around her every day. I’ve seen it. Her children ... Read More December 18, 2017 Socializing with Seniors Suffering from Dementia or Alzheimer’s As a professional caregiver, I am acutely aware of the challenges involved with socializing with seniors suffering from dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease . When families are together during the holidays, and a beloved family member with this dreadful condition are present, ... Read More November 21, 2017 Keeping Seniors Safe this Holiday Season In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I want to start by saying how grateful I am to be in a profession where I can help people! No matter what the story…and everyone has a story…it is an enormous blessing and tremendously satisfying to assist someone in order to promote and ... Read More October 12, 2017 Breast Cancer Self-Exam Important to Senior Women When I was in my late teens in the early eighties, my paternal grandmother was admitted to a nursing home with Parkinson’s disease and quite possibly, Alzheimer’s. I had never heard of Alzheimer’s before that time, but soon realized Grandma presented many of the symptoms and ... Read More August 24, 2017 Senior Scams: The Crime of the 21st Century It only took moments in the beginning of an incoming call from an unknown number to wreck the elderly woman’s bank account. It only took her simple acknowledgment of “yes,” that set the entire fraud in motion to drain her bank account. I heard about this on the news and ... Read More Page 1 of 4
