How to Avoid Contentious Conversations with Aging Parents During the Observance of Holidays
Discover 10 practical tips to avoid contentious conversations with aging parents during holiday gatherings. From focusing on shared interests to setting boundaries and redirecting sensitive topics, these strategies help maintain harmony, foster connection, and ensure a joyful holiday season for the whole family. Perfect for adult children navigating family dynamics with senior loved ones!
Traveling with Aging Parents: Tips for the Sandwich Generation Caregiver
Discover how sandwich generation adults can turn their travel dreams into reality while balancing the needs of their aging parents and children, making the journey unforgettable for all.
Understand How Historical Events Impact Behaviors Across the Lifespan
It may come as no surprise that our experiences, both positive and negative, leave a permanent mark on our personality. For the aging population, these life experiences play a pivotal role in shaping their present perspectives and behaviors.
Guilt About Elderly Parents and Their Needs
The guilt that accompanies interactions or lack of interactions with our aging parents is powerful! The versions of guilt associated with adult children and their aging parents is varied but persistent, invasive, and grueling. While guilt may seem like a huge burden, it's important to recognize that overcoming it is not only possible but also vital for your well-being as an adult child caring for aging parents.
Tactile Transitions in Your Aging Parents: Understanding and Addressing Changes in Touch and Proprioception
Caring for aging parents requires a thoughtful and considerate approach, especially when it comes to changes in their sense of touch. Discover practical and sensitive ways to support parents who are developing issues with proprioception as they age.
Sandwich Generation Stress: Achieving Work-Life Balance as Adults Navigating the Tightrope Between Careers, Kids and Aging Parents
Navigating the Tightrope: Achieving Work-Life Balance as Adults Sandwiched Between Careers, Kids and Aging Parents. The major causes of stress as a caretaker for those in the sandwich generation are time constraints, financial strain, and emotional toll. Listed here are 5 strategies for achieving work/life balance.
Elderly Scam Prevention: Arm Yourself and Your Aging Parents with Knowledge and Solutions
Scam Awareness: Arm Yourself and Your Aging Parents with Knowledge and Solutions. Scammers have affected all of us but your aging parents are more susceptible for many reasons! Maybe they are isolated or lonely and when someone calls they are excited and desperate to talk to anyone. You’ve probably shared with your parents about some of the common scams and told them “Don’t fall for it”, ”This is what they will say, “Just hang up” and our elderly parents assure us they will but then they don’t.
Navigating Generational Tension: The Impact on Children and Grandchildren
it is important for caretakers and adult children of aging parents to foster the relationships between their children and their grandparents. Sometimes there is conflicct between the parents and the granparents as it relates to the children. This blog offer strategies to mitigate the gnerational stress between parents, grandparents and grandchildren.
Declining Vision and Hearing: Behavioral Changes in Older Adults and 5 Strategies to Support Them
it is important for caretakers and adult children of aging parents to the vision and hearing changes that occur in their elderly loved ones. Understanding behavior changes as we age will help caretakers support their aging parents with a better quality of life.
Communicating with Elderly Parents: Why is it More Difficult?
it is important for caretakers and adult children of aging parents to cutlivate connections with their elderly loved ones. Connections lead to better relationships, better quality of life and better cooperation.
Aging Parents and Loss of or Change in Appetite
Do your aging parents carve sweet and salty food? As their caretaker are you concerned about their poor diet? Changes in smell and taste of the elderly population is common.
Graceful Parenting Transitions: 7 Essential Tips for Nurturing and Supporting Your Aging Parents
Seven tips for adult children and caregivers on how to parent your aging parents.
Caretaker Roles and Responsibilities
What are the different types of caretaker roles? What is the best caretaking role for you?
Responsibility for Aging Parents
Sandwiched Between Your Life and Your Aging Parents?
Help for Adult Children of Aging Parents is Here!