Getting into the habit of taking a daily medicine.

Doing something unusual, like knocking on wood or patting yourself on the head, while taking a daily dose of medicine may be an effective strategy to help seniors remember whether they’ve already taken their daily medications, suggests new research from Washington University in St. Louis.

With Proper Planning People Remain in Their Homes for the Rest of Their Lives

We are seeing a trend towards working conditions like those in urban America in the early 1900’s where both partner and wife are working and putting in longer hours. We are also seeing a return of the trend in the early part of the 20 th century where outside visitor carers are becoming available to replace working caregiver’s and permit the elderly to receive long-term care in their homes. In addition there’s a heavy trend in the past few years for Medicaid and Medicare to pay for long term care in the home rather than in nursing houses.

Home care evolution

In the first century of our’s history there wasn’t any such thing as nursing houses or controlled living. Society was mostly rural and people lived in their own houses. Families cared for their loved ones at home till death took them.

Caring for family means caring for yourself.

Whether you have elected to be a family caregiver or the job is thrust upon you by circumstances, your most important responsibility beyond caring for your ill or disabled relative is caring for yourself.

Moving in with parents

In numerous cultures, it’s common for aging fogeys to move in with their children to be taken care of , in a kind of cyclical way that allows children to return the favor by providing a life for their parents, just as their oldsters did for them during childhood. But until recently, many cultures did not embrace this trend, and all of a sudden this is a trend that is growing. Today, approximately 43% of adult carers in Denver and across the united states live with an older parent or relative , and in the past two years, this is a trend which has increased by approximately 60%.

An e-mail from a friend of mine.

Yesterday I got an e-mail from a friend of mine from whom I didn’t hear long time already:

To leave or not to leave your own house?

Getting older one of the main thing that you face – to leave or not to leave your own house. Especially when you live alone.

Eldercare is what most of us will face

There is one issue that most of us will face – the necessity or desire to take care for an aging parent or relative or close friend. Those are happy who can combine life, work and care.

At what age Old age starts?

New national survey on aging from the Pew Research Center reports explores the public’s views on age and aging.

Most adults over age 50 feel at least 10 years younger than their actual age, the survey found. 30% of those between 65 and 74 said they felt 10 to 19 years younger, and 13% of people 75 and older said they felt 20 years younger.

And at what age does old age begin? Most people in the survey said old age starts at age 68. Not surprisingly, most people over 65 have a different idea about old age. Among those getting the senior citizen discount, most say old age begins at 75.

The same time most people under 30 think you’re old by the time you hit 60.

Currently, about 40 million Americans, or one in eight, are 65 and older. By 2050, one in five American will be in that age group.

Fair Pay for Caregiving

Change is too slow coming for the nation’s 1,000,000 home care helpers.
In 2007, the high court unanimously upheld a 1975 federal labor regulation that defines home care aides as companions.