How to care for an older adult during the summer months

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Summer is a special time for caution if you or someone in your family is an older adult. I

Affordable housing communities: Pros and cons of elderly housing

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There are two primary ways HUD has of subsidizing rents – tenant-based and project-based vouchers. One subsidy follows the person and the other subsidy follows an apartment. Project-based vouchers were more common historically, but an over-reliance on the project-based vouchers created communities of poverty, often in inner cities.
“I truly believe that I’m a better person, happier and more content because of my caregiving years,” says Sarahbeth Persiani, the author of “Run, Walk, Crawl: A Caregiver Caught Between Generations.” Photo/Submitted

Author says caregiver experience made her happier and more content

By Nance Ebert, Contributing Writer MILLBURY – When Sarahbeth Persiani began writing about her experiences as a caregiver, she had no idea it would eventually...

Aging America: Caregivers who kill

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The couple had been married 45 years and Wise told his friend that they had agreed long ago they didn’t want to live out their years bedridden and disabled. 
So a week after Barbara Wise’s stroke, investigators said, her husband fired a single round into her head.

Tripping seniors on purpose to stop future falls

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Falls in the elderly cost $30 billion yearly to treat and can send them spiraling into poor health and disability.

Memoir highlights caregiver’s long-term health care challenges

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Decades after screen star Bette Davis famously declared that “growing old is not for sissies,” Estelle Gross expanded on the woes of the ailing aged with her lament that people live too long and die too slowly.

Think outside the box when it comes to parent care

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By Angela Rocheleau Families plan for vacations and life events, but somehow they postpone the most important plan, care for an elderly loved one during...

Radio frequency technology helps locate missing elderly

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The rescue is one of many similar stories shared by the company, already well known for tracking stolen vehicles, construction equipment and more recently, computer laptops.
Marianne Delorey of Colony Retirement Homes writes about "the otherness" of aging.

Why worry?

  By Marianne Delorey, Ph.D., Executive Director, Colony Retirement Homes “When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man...

Dusk to dawn adult care, is first in state

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Most evenings, participants in the ElderServe on the Palisades at Night program listen to music that for many, spark memories of years ago.