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FAQs About Chapped Lips in Elderly Adults

A lot of different elements and conditions combine to create chapped lips. Dry, flaky and painful, chapped lips can disrupt daily life and lead to pain in eating, talking, kissing and even sleeping. When seniors and family caregivers learn how to take better care of this delicate skin, the days of chapped lips will be...

Can You Reduce Your Senior's Risk for COPD?

COPD is a common health problem among adults in the United States. There are more than 15 million people in the US who have already received a diagnosis of this condition, and approximately 12 million more who are living with the condition but have not yet been diagnosed. As a family caregiver, it is important...

Helping Your Parent Cope with Fatigue During Cancer Treatment

Of the many potential side effects related to cancer and cancer treatments, one of the most common is fatigue. People that all stages of cancer report experiencing fatigue, which is a sense of tiredness or lack of energy that impacts functioning or quality of life. If your aging parent is suffering from fatigue, they may...

Four Tips to Get Your Senior Exercising

You and your senior’s doctor may have wanted to help her learn to incorporate more exercise into her life and that can be tough to do. These ideas can help her to make exercise a priority that she enjoys. Even if exercise hasn’t been a big part of her life before, she can benefit now....

How to Stop Being the Exhausted Caregiver

It doesn’t take long as a caregiver to find yourself consistently exhausted. There’s a lot to keep up with and a lot to manage. You also might find that you’re just not sleeping well. Whether that’s due to health issues of your own or because you’re worrying too much, there are some things that you...

Does Your Senior Have Some of These Eye Symptoms?

National Eye Exam Month occurs every August and it’s a great reminder to be on the lookout for these symptoms of potential eye difficulties in your elderly family member. Blurry Vision, Even with Corrective Lenses If your elderly family member’s vision changes, she’s likely to experience blurry or altered vision. If she already wears corrective...

Understanding the Stress of Being a Distance Caregiver for Your Aging Parent

If you have noticed your parent is experiencing challenges or difficulties that keep them from staying safe, comfortable, or healthy in their own home, you may be considering becoming their family caregiver. If you live at a distance from your aging parent, stepping into this role may require even more preparation and awareness then if...

Tools to Help Keep Your Parent's Hair Clean When They Cannot Bathe Regularly

If you are like many people, washing your hair is something that you do not think about very often. It is such a simple and routine part of your daily life, you likely take it for granted. If you are a family caregiver for an aging parent, however, you may have found that the challenges...

What Is Respite Care and Why Is it Important?

You may have seen the term “respite care,” but what exactly is it? It sounds like it might be a complicated concept, but it really isn’t. Respite Care Gives You a Break Respite care doesn’t have to be complicated or formal at all. At its simplest, respite care is care coverage that offers you the...