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Beat It: Post-Stroke Speech Recovery through Music

When it comes to stroke recovery, the healing power of music may have its roots in rhythm and long-term memory, [...]

How to Communicate When Your Elderly Parent Can No Longer Speak

Many of us are coping with elders who can no longer communicate. Whether from a stroke, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s or for [...]

Nutrition Tips for Aging Adults

As people age, their diets may need to change, especially if their diets are not well-balanced. Generally, doctors will recommend [...]

An Appetite for Nutrition

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Proper nutrition is vital to your parent for maintaining health, retaining and building bone mass and, importantly, to enable medications [...]

Secrets of a Well-Balanced Caregiver

While there is some small comfort in knowing that the pressures you feel are shared by many others, the bottom [...]

Medicare: What Case Managers and Discharge Planners Need to Know about Private Duty Home Care Services

In order to be appropriate for home health or hospice services paid for by any payor, including the Medicare Program, [...]

A Helping Hand in Stroke Recovery

A stroke can happen to anyone and at any age, but, according to the American Stroke Association, 75 percent of [...]

Don’t Let A “Brain Attack” Blindside You

Each year in the United States, there are more than 700,000 new strokes. Stroke is the third leading cause of [...]

Rehab Makes Life Easier for Stroke Survivors

Due to advances in modern medicine, a stroke may not always be a life-threatening episode. The large majority of people [...]

Making Life Easier for a Person With Parkinson’s Disease

Parkinson’s Disease is progressive and symptoms may come on in stages. Difficulties increase as the disease progresses. Learning how to [...]

A Caregiver’s Intro to Parkinson’s Psychosis

Shaky hands, an unsteady walk, limbs that unexpectedly freeze in place; these symptoms are practically synonymous with Parkinson’s disease (PD). [...]

Why It’s Best to Occasionally Review Your Medicines With Your Doctor

Every person will probably take medicine at some point. As people accumulate medical problems, the number of medicines they take [...]

Long-Distance Caregiving: Geriatric Care Managers Can Help

It is a concern many caregivers have: “Should I encourage my parents to get more help? The last time I [...]

Early Warning Signs of Cardiac Arrest May Help Reduce Heart-Related Deaths

Sudden cardiac arrest may not be as sudden as doctors have thought, researchers report. Roughly half of cardiac arrest patients [...]

Heart Medications and Adherence

Medication doesn’t do much good when it never leaves the bottle. And yet the American Heart Association estimates that 12 [...]

When Answers Aren’t Easy

A geriatric care manager can alleviate stress and worry for family members while considering care options and managing responsibilities for [...]

Ask for Help. You’re Not in This Alone.

Michelle Booth of Foster City, California, moved in with her parents 10 years ago, her three-year-old daughter in tow. Her [...]

Learning On-The-Job: Critical Steps That Every New Caregiver Should Take

If you’re caring for a chronically ill or disabled friend or relative, you’ve joined one of the biggest — and [...]

When Aging Parents Resist Help

As Americans get ready to visit family and friends over the upcoming holidays, a survey reveals experts’ top tips for [...]

Are you up to date?

Childhood vaccinations are one of the greatest medical success stories of the 20th century, but as you age, you become [...]

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