How to handle an elderly parent’s bad behavior
“My mother is driving me crazy!” This phrase is uttered (or screamed) by caregivers everywhere who are caring for elderly parents.
As if they didn’t have enough to do, caregivers often have to deal with bad behavior by their elderly parents. The AgingCare.com message boards are filled with stories [...]
Sandwich Generation Feeling the Squeeze of Supporting Elderly Parents, Boomerang Kids
More than 40 percent of baby boomers who have a living parent are helping with their care.* Whether health or financial problems, or literally “giving back,” millions of adults are assisting their parents with monetary support. Many also are raising children or supporting their Generation [...]
Tampa, Florida – Looking more like a grandpa than a wanted bank robber, 73-year-old James Bruce toddled front and center at Orient Road Jail.
Bruce was arrested on Thursday after detectives said he was robbing banks to pay his mortgage.
According to a criminal report, Bruce walked into three different banks in south Tampa. Each time, investigators [...]
Seabridge Bathing proudly supports the Active Living Coalition for Older Adults.
Seabridge Bathing Canada is proud to be a corporate member of ALCOA, the Active Living Coalition for Older Adults.
ALCOA members subscribe to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) definition of active living as:
A way of life in which physical, social, mental, emotional and spiritual activities [...]
A form of artificial intelligence has been designed to help make life easier for people with dementia.
Researchers have developed a computer system that reminds patients about their daily appointments.
The computer-generated face known as MANA can talk, recognise faces and turn itself on when someone enters a room.
MANA, or Memory Appointment and Navigation Agent, is designed [...]
The “Big Idea” is finally making its way through Medicare in Florida.
Instead of putting seniors in nursing homes because they need care, the care is being brought to them, at home.
They don’t need doctors or nurses, but they do need assistance with meal preparation, medication, cleaning, and so on.
And Medicare is paying for it.
And saving [...]
Someday soon, older adults may not need to move into nursing homes because they’ll have a household of technological wonders to keep an eye on them when they become frail.
UTA professor Fillia Makedon displays some of the equipment as Kevin Xu wears an Motion Capture suit that digitally captures human motion as they do research [...]
Seniors like to remain in their own home for many reasons: the familiarity of neighborhood and belongings, the ability to keep their pets, socializing with neighbors, gardening, local markets, and more. The big intangible reason: the ability to keep one’s own independence.
The alternative is an assisted living facility or nursing home. An assisted living facility [...]