I have a good friend who embodies the familiar phrase “I call ‘em as I see ’em.” Not curmudgeon exactly, and not to the point of being an “Eeyore,” she is…
Adult Children of Aging Parents: Your Job Is To Talk
How Adult Children of Aging Parents can turn thought into action – Begin the talk. You know the feeling. The one you get when you hear or read something that simply…
Abate: Anxiety in Caregiving
Ab-ATE Caregiving for our aging parents carries with it a certain low level anxiety. That same ever-present anxiety can be felt while caring for minor children or performing a job…
Caring For Elderly Parents Requires Strategy
There is no doubt that caring for elderly parents requires strategy. I hear it and see it daily: the need for strategy. Being in the industry I read All Things…
Aggravate: Emotions of Caregiving
Emotions of Caregiving -An Adult Child of Senior Parents Shares Aggravation From the “Well, that just beats all” department: The headline read “Baby pictures hanging at doctor’s office? Cute, sure,…
Caregiver Fatigue
Our –ATE word this week is CAPITULATE. Giving in, and the costs of doing so. If I have learned one thing lately it is to pay attention to the…
How Seniors CONGREGATE
Today’s -ATE word is CONGREGATE. Congregate means to come together, usually for a purpose. How do seniors congregate? Does North Carolina in particular accommodate seniors’ need to socialize? Can you think…
ILLUMINATE : Helping Seniors Avoid Scams in NC
“It happened to me.” Normally, Navigate NC is helping seniors to avoid scams in the Triangle area cities in N.C. Here’s a new twist: the scammers are not only calling senior…
DISCOMBOBULATE: Finding Caregivers from State to State
Well, he just was. Discombobulated. It is where so many long distance caregivers find themselves. Taking care of aging parents or seniors from a distance certainly causes caregiver stress which…