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Mental Illness and Disorganization

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month this May, I would like to share some information about the link between mental illness and...

5 Geriatric Care Management Tips for the Sandwich Generation

The Sandwich Generation refers to a generation of people who are caring for their aging parents while supporting their own children. If...

Knowing When to Say When: Dementia Care Placement

One of the most difficult, emotionally trying and even guilt-inducing decisions any geriatric caregiver of a dementia sufferer has to...

How to Cover the Cost of Long-term Care

The cost of long-term care just keeps going up and most Americans keep believing — incorrectly — that the government will cover most or...

The tides are changing

Some 7 or 8 years ago my brother had a psychotic breakdown. He had to be hospitalized and then subsequently put in a long-term care...

Letting Go of Guilt

What is guilt? Unwarranted response to an imagined offense Unless you actually killed someone (which I’m assuming 99.9% of my readers...

Safety First

Most people think that usage of essential oils (EO) are safe because they are natural. For the most part they are very safe but I have...

Lightening Up: A Mental Health Initiative

I remember years ago, before my son became a husband and a dad. A time when, for him life was more carefree. He told me “you gotta...

NOVEMBER is National Family Caregivers Month.

According to a study by the National Alliance for Caregiving in 2015, an estimated 43.5 million adults in the United States, provide...

Ten things to do when a loved one passes away

Whether a millionaire (or hundredaire), after the death of a loved one, caregivers must tend to their estate. The following is a list of...

Mental Health Directives vs Power of Attorney

There is something that most of us do not think about when creating our advanced directives. It is also something that many people who...

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