Month: December 2017

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How to Get Your Senior Loved One Involved During the Holidays

Senior family members usually look for holidays and celebrations, because that means they can see family members and special friends they don’t see so often for the rest of the year. However, if their expectations fall short, such as when a family member can’t come visit, a senior loved one can find the holidays sad …

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Tips for Traveling with Senior Parents

Traveling with senior parents can be wrought with challenges and anxiety. By following these tips, you can be sure to have a great time making great memories with your whole family. The holidays are here, and this means vacations and meeting families and relatives. This can also mean traveling with senior parents to your province …

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Does Your Elderly Parent Use Profanity? Here’s What You Should Do

Your elderly parent may seem kind and mild-mannered before, but now that age has caught up with them and they are in their senior years, they start to use profanity. While profanity are sometimes used by people as an interjection or an expression, many elderly people can sometimes go overboard. Profanity can punctuate their every …

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14 Difficult Elderly Behaviors and How to Deal with Them

Does your parent or loved one exhibit difficult elderly behaviors? Do they behave in ways that you don’t expect them to? Perhaps they used to be easy-going and mild-mannered and suddenly they act up. Have these difficult elderly behavior left you flustered, frustrated, embarrassed, hurt, exhausted, or helpless?

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What to Do if Your Elderly Parent Won’t Take a Bath

Your elderly parent may be reasonably clean and well-groomed in the past. You may remember your childhood years and still know the cologne or perfume they use. Or you may have spent a few hours in their bedroom watching your mother put on makeup or your father fix his hair. However, things take quite a different …

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