Body, Mind, Soul: Build a Caregiver Wellness Plan
Today, 1 in 6 employees is juggling work and personal responsibilities while also caring for an older loved one. Recent...
Articles by Carecom Care Planning
Sharing the caregiving: Managing sibling disagreements
Facilitated by Jill McNamara Siblings can be our best friends and partners in crime growing up. But as adults, siblings...
Choosing Quality Senior Care Providers
Facilitated by Sheri LaBree and Erin Winsor If you’re a family caregiver, you may be making decisions without enough information...
Managing Caregiving in the Era of COVID-19
Facilitated by Jody Gastfriend & Chandi Deitmer. The unique circumstances of COVID-19 add an extra layer to the already complex...
Planning for the financial and legal aspects of long-term care
Facilitated by Jody Gastfriend and Harry Margolis Our population is aging at an unprecedented pace. While many older adults will...
April “Senior Sense”: Caregiving Through a Crisis
By Liz O’Donnell Caregiving on a good day, can be stressful. Caregiving during a crisis can feel completely overwhelming and...
March Senior Sense: 4 Game-Changers for Dementia Caregivers
By Liz O’Donnell In my father’s final months of his life, I visited him every day. He was living in...
December “Senior Sense”: The Top 5 Steps to Take for Long-Term Care Planning
By Harry Margolis Unfortunately, with longevity comes the increasing likelihood of needing care, whether due to cognitive decline, short-term injury...
Maximizing Quality of Life as You Age
Whether retirement seems far away or just around the corner, it’s important to maximize quality of life as we age....
Aging Well
We are living in unprecedented times. Life expectancy is on the rise and centenarians will no longer be a rarity....
Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia: Caregiving Challenges and Strategies
There are more than 5 million Americans currently living with Alzheimer’s disease and more than 15 million family caregivers who...
Important Resources for Family Caregivers
As family caregivers, we are often confronted with a confusing array of choices. How can you sort out the various...
Advocacy in Healthcare Settings
While you hope to never receive the dreaded call that mom has fallen or dad had a stroke, many families...
Managing Stress in the Workplace
We all encounter some form of stress every day–commuting to work, difficult bosses, caring for our children and parents and...
November “Senior Sense”: 6 Simple Ways to Make a Home Safe for Seniors to Age In
By Marisa Cohen Enjoying post-retirement in the home you raised your children in — or in the comfy condo you...
September “Senior Sense”: How to Balance Senior Care and Your Job
By Liz O’Donnell “I should just quit,” I thought to myself. I was exhausted. I had woken up at 5...
The Care Maze
by Jody Gastfriend Back in the mid-1990s, when I ran a home health care agency, it was the visiting nurse...
Making Work Work
By Jody Gastfriend Sometimes when it comes to work/life balance I feel like I missed the boat. Yes, I somehow...
How to Care for Ourselves Too
By Jody Gastfriend As caregivers, we may ignore advice to take care of ourselves, but we do so at our...
The Art of Connection: Caring for a Loved One with Dementia
By Jody Gastfriend In the fall of 2015, I had the opportunity to participate in an event sponsored by UsAgainstAlzheimer’s,...
Good, Bad and Nonexistent Siblings
When you’re overwhelmed and overburdened, it’s easy to feel that your siblings are standing on the sideline taking potshots. Those...
How to Care for Ourselves Too
Excerpt from Jody Gastfriend’s “My Parent’s Keeper: The Guilt, Grief, Guesswork and Unexpected Gifts of Caregiving” As caregivers, we may...
August “Senior Sense”: How to be a Strong Advocate for Your Elder Parents
By Liz O’Donnell It was close to midnight. I was worried, tired and cold. Why are emergency rooms always so...
June “Senior Sense”: I Spent 30 Years Advising Families On Senior Care And I Still Wasn’t Ready To Care For My Mom
By Jody Gastfriend, LICSW, VP Senior Care | Recently published on Yale University Press “I’m sorry for keeping my phone...
May “Senior Sense”: 5 Unexpected Ways Life Changes when you Become a Caregiver to your Parent
By Liz O’Donnell I heard about parenting all the time: “Your life completely changes when you become a parent,” my...
April “Senior Sense”: What To Expect When You’re Expecting An Inheritance
By Jody Gastfriend, LICSW, VP Senior Care Several months ago my sister made a surprising suggestion: Let’s sit down with...
March “Senior Sense”: How to Talk to Parents About Needing Care
By Jody Gastfriend, LICSW, VP Senior Care Clara always had a contentious relationship with her fiercely-independent mother, and things didn’t...
February “Senior Sense”: We Are Not Our Parents’ Parents
By Jody Gastfriend, LICSW, VP Senior Care | Recently published on Yale University Press I often refer to my 89-year-old...
January “Senior Sense”: Want To Enjoy Old Age? This 90-Year-Old Has One Simple Trick, And Science Backs Her Up
By Jody Gastfriend, LICSW, VP Senior Care | Recently published on Forbes.com As Bette Davis famously quipped, “Old age ain’t no place for sissies.” My...
December “Senior Sense”: The Hidden Costs of Alzheimer’s Disease
By Jody Gastfriend, LICSW, VP Senior Care | Recently published on Forbes.com When Rick could not remember where he kept...
Paying for Senior Care Legal Fees
My mother’s (second) husband is ill. All of their assets — home and stocks/bonds/annuities — are in his name only. ...
March “Senior Sense”: Avoiding Caregiver Burnout
By Angelina Portuense, Senior Care Provider Specialist Many of us may find ourselves in the role of caregiver one day....
Dementia and Guardianship
My client came to see me at her wits end about what to do about her father. He was suffering...