Caregiver

By Marianne Delorey, Ph.D. “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”  - Abraham Maslow  I...

When it came time to live closer to his in-laws, Siegle had trouble finding something that he could adapt or expand to fit his needs. Instead, he found a suitable subdivision close to Traverse City, designed a house, had it built and moved in last summer.

By Sharon Oliver, Contributing Writer REGION - Baby Boomers, Gen X, Gen Z and so on and so forth are all defined by age groups....

By Marianne Delorey I’ve never been much for reality TV, but there is one show that hits home in my profession. The show is Design...

About 10 million seniors currently rely on others for daily care, such as help getting dressed, preparing meals or taking medication. That number will only increase as more of the nation’s 78 million baby boomers enter old age.

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.

By R.R. Fletcher, Contributing Writer BOSTON - Family caregivers are a vital but largely unrecognized component of long-term health care. However, that may be changing. Currently,...

Welcome to the virtual house call. It’s increasingly getting attention in the United States as a way to conveniently diagnose simple maladies, such as whether that runny nose and cough is a cold or the flu.

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Too often, older Americans wind up in a nursing home not because they’re super-sick, but because they can’t get through their days safely at home.