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Should Seniors Make New Year’s Resolutions?
Should Seniors Make New Year’s Resolutions? The Case For and Against Setting Goals Later in Life Consider the scene: you're 80+ years old and the post-Christmas excitement has finally dwindled down. Decorations are coming down, guests and family have all...
Elderly Care During Holidays: A Guide for Dallas Families
Elderly Care During Holidays: A Guide for Dallas Families As if the holidays aren’t busy (and sometimes stressful if we’re being honest!) enough, when you add in the logistics and the emotional energy that comes into play when helping to care for an elderly parent,...
How to Help Elderly Parents Enjoy the Holidays: A Family Guide
December 2, 2025 As much as the holidays call to mind images reminiscent of a Hallmark movie, for many senior adults, these days of increased activities, additional expectations and expenses, and all-but-forced family get-togethers can bring with them concern and...
How to Plan Care for Aging Parents: A Complete Guide
September 1, 2025 We’ve said it before, but it is undeniably true: Making caregiving arrangements for aging parents can be a little like setting off into uncharted waters. After all, no two journeys are exactly the same; there’s definitely not a one-size-fits-all...
Changing How We Care for Senior Adults… In the Best Possible Way
Changing How We Care for Senior Adults… In the Best Possible Way Remember when people got to ‘a certain age’ and it was just assumed they’d move to ‘a home?’ An old folks home…a nursing home…a senior care facility...an institution? For many of previous generations, if...
How to Know When to Get In-Home Help
How to Know When to Get In-Home Help It happens slowly—almost imperceptibly at first. Maybe Mom has a couple of fender-benders in the grocery store parking lot or Dad tries to tackle an in-home repair that used to be a simple fix but is now considerably more...
Signs to Look for When Deciding if it’s Time for In-home Caregiving
Signs to Look for When Deciding if it’s Time for In-home Caregiving Hiring in-home care for your aging parents can benefit you and them in obvious and aging significant ways, but there are also some surprising benefits that can have a lasting impact down the road. For...
Understanding the Importance of Instrumental Activities of Daily Living – A Primer of Specifics for Determining Care
Understanding the Importance of Instrumental Activities of Daily Living – A Primer of Specifics for Determining Care Most of us go about our regular daily activities without so much as a second thought. We make the kids’ lunches, toss a load in the washing machine,...
Early Signs of Dementia – What to Look For, When to Take Action
Early Signs of Dementia – What to Look For, When to Take Action Aging may just be the trickiest challenge any of us will ever face. Possibly the only thing more difficult than suffering our own indignities of aging is walking through the ever-so-gradual decline of and...