By CK Wilde for 3GenFamily Blog
It is one of the smallest things that I do time-wise, yet I learn so much from doing it. As a Health Maven for the Caregiving community on Wellsphere.com, I answer questions from others about a wide range of issues in providing care for loved ones. I don’t get paid [...]
Posts Tagged ‘aging parents’
7 Reasons Why Parents Won’t Take Medication
November 2009 Is National Family Caregivers Month
By CK Wilde for 3GenFamily Blog
Baby boomers didn’t invent it.
Family caregiving has been going on for a long time.
My earliest memories include long drives in our shiny, black Plymouth to visit my grandfather’s older sister wherever she was assigned. Ciocia (aunt in Polish) Pelagia was a nun. She didn’t speak a word of English.
Until her arthritis made cooking and cleaning [...]
Update on Digital TV Conversion
By CK Wilde for 3GenFamily Blog
What happened here?
On December 27, 2008, we mentioned JimG’s report about the digital TV conversion and how many seniors, who rely on TV with rabbit ears, were not ready for the transition. Now, we hear that the Obama transition team is recommending that Congress delay the conversion because many TV [...]
DTV Converter Not Working? What JimG Did.
By CK Wilde for 3GenFamily Blog
Have you noticed the TV commercials talking about the Digital TV Conversion?
It’s happening on February 17, 2009. The broadcast stations in your area have been preparing for the big switch to digital for quite a while now. On that date, stations will officially begin broadcasting using a digital signal [...]
Local Seminars To Help 44 Million US Caregivers Reduce Stress
By CK Wilde for 3GenFamily Blog
Stress
No one knows more about it than a caregiver of an adult family member or friend. Unlike the nine month long joyful, if apprehensive, anticipation of the birth of a baby, adult caregiving too often starts abruptly.
Sudden events, like a medical emergency, yank us out of our normal lives and [...]
Time To Check Medicare Prescription Drug Plan for 2009
By CK Wilde for 3GenFamily Blog
Has your parent’s monthly premium for the Medicare drug plan increased?
The 2008 Medicare Open Enrollment is November 15 to December 31, 2008. This is your opportunity to move to a plan that better suits current needs.
I went to the Medicare website to research 2009 prescription drug plans in our area. [...]
Where Are The Stories That Affirm Caring for Aging Parents?
By JimG for 3GenFamily Blog
Aging parents often say “I don’t want to burden my children”. But, the truth is that many sons and daughters will need to bear some burden if their parents are to maintain a dignified life as they weaken with age. For some families, the burden will be relatively light and manageable, [...]
Five Star Book: Mothering Mother by Carol D. O’Dell
By CK Wilde for 3GenFamily Blog
Mothering Mother: A Daughter’s Humorous and Heartbreaking Memoir
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“Are you coming to bed, hon?” whispered my sleepy husband.
“In a minute . . . this is such a good book!” I said as I glanced up.
From the first paragraph, Carol O’Dell’s book, Mothering Mother, had me spellbound. I [...]
Caring For Your Parents: Compelling PBS Documentary Glued Me To My Chair
By CK Wilde for 3GenFamily Blog
http://www.pbs.org/caringforyourparents
I received an email from my cousin about the PBS documentary, Caring for Your Parents, a few days after it aired on April 2, 2008. He wanted to know if I was going to talk about it here. He thought it was a dynamite show.
I missed it the first [...]
Can Gardening and Salads Prevent Lung Cancer?
By CK Wilde for 3GenFamily Blog.
Ripe, juicy tomatoes were my father’s obsession. Every year, Dad would plant enough tomato plants to keep our family of four and my grandparents, my aunt and her husband and my uncle and his family with huge beefsteak and oval plum tomatoes all summer long. At summer’s end, [...]
