MRSA spreads easily and antibiotics like penicillin are ineffective against it. Elders in nursing home settings are vulnerable because MRSA infection is acquired more easily by elderly people and it is carried and spread quickly by skin contact. Read more →

The financial toll is often insidious. You shop and include their groceries, pay for repairs and the gas for trips to the doctor, you lose time at work and pretty soon we’re talking big money. Read more →

When teenagers see a beloved grandparent change personalities, forget their name, not recognize them - it's devastating. Read more →

I'll never forget my children's faces as they stared at their grandfather, Read more →

HealthCentral has created a website where you can "plot" yourself on a graph next to the presidential candidates to see how your views compare to their views on different healthcare issues. Read more →

With healthcare ranking as one of this election year's top issues, we're bound to see many stories of interest for those of us caring for elders (or with health issues of our own). Here's one of the latest. Read more →

The National Center on Caregiving at Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA) has added new and updated data to its terrific resource “Caregiving Across the States.” Read more →

A woman with whom I work is questioning whether the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease is correct for her father. I agreed that, from different things she's mentioned to me about her dad, I've wondered, too, if he actually had AD, or if it was vascular or another type of dementia (he'd had a stroke). Read more →

Many people are not looking for total retirement, after they "retire" from their current work. Many people are working in jobs for which they no longer feel suited and would like to find something that feels more "right" to them. Read more →

We discussed the fact that Dad still had choices. He needed to move. And even though his choices would surely get him hurt, that was a smaller price to pay than the mental anguish he experienced at the slight hint of restraining him. Read more →