By CK Wilde for 3GenFamily Blog
This is Part Two in a two part series about recognizing the signs of dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease so that aging family members can get the help they need.
In Part One, Your Mother’s Day Visit – Seeing Signs of Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease, I described how Theresa Robaldo recognized [...]
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Your Mother’s Day Visit – Being The Caregiver
Your Mother’s Day Visit – Seeing Signs of Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease
By CK Wilde for 3GenFamily Blog
This is Part One in a two part series about recognizing the signs of dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease so that aging family members can get the help they need.
By the time Lita Baker came to see Dr. Susan Steen,
Lita, a frail woman in her 80s, was already on Aricept and [...]
Does Your Parent Want To Sell Her Life Insurance To Speculators?
My father only had a couple thousand dollars of life insurance in force by the time he turned 83. He outlived the term of one policy, so the insurance company paid him the cash value and terminated the policy.
As someone who was deeply affected by the Depression, Dad would probably have jumped at the [...]
Thanksgiving With Dad — How Do You Convince Someone to Accept Help?
The mood was relaxed and happy on the five hour flight from California to New Jersey. It was Thanksgiving Day. The sun was just beginning to set on what must have been an unseasonably warm day on the East Coast. I smiled to myself. The plane had arrived ahead of schedule. I would be at my father’s home in [...]
How To Help Your Aging Parents – Medical Billing
It wasn’t until Dad mailed me the collection notice that I realized he was losing his ability to track and pay his medical bills. He had complained during our phone chats on several occasions that the hospital had messed up his billing. They kept phoning him to get him to pay his bill.
He insisted that he [...]
