Recommended Reading
Team Mom: Boomers Will Have to Work Together to Care for Their Parents
In 1957, the average woman had 3.77 children, the first one born at age 24. Let's assume that it took her seven years to have her 3.77 children, so by 32 she had a full house, one whose daily minutia she was likely managing almost singlehandedly as her husband stayed steely focused on his career. She cooked and cleaned, looked lovely in her dress at the local supermarket, and transported her children to countless activities...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/liddy-manson/boomers-aging-parents_b_846034.html
Perspectives for Caregivers
Admit to yourself that the role of caregiver can be tedious, tiring and time-consuming. It can be highly unrewarding when the people we care for are in a state of decline.
http://www.boomertoboomeronline.ca/2010/12/perspectives-for-caregivers/
Communicating With Your Aging Parent's Physician
If you are your parent's primary caregiver, you are an integral part of a team. As part of a team, you must share information to ensure that your parent receives the best possible care. For example, if your elder is becoming confused or forgetful, it can be related to the onset of dementia, or it can be the effects of dehydration, over-medication, depression or nothing special...
http://www.boomertoboomeronline.ca/2011/01/communicating-with-your-aging-parents-physician/
Video Caregiving
Welcome to Videocaregiving.org, a new website from Terra Nova Films dedicated to "streaming" visual educational material to family caregivers. There are many informative caregiving websites: what makes this site unique is its almost exclusive use of video in focusing on the challenges faced by the caregiver.
http://www.videocaregiving.org/index.php
Rheumatoid Arthritis: 11 Alternative Therapies To Ease Your Pain
If you've got rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the single best way to fight the disease is with medication. Still, as effective as RA drugs are, they can't do everything. Several non-drug treatments out there can help you where medication can't. And exercise is at the top of the list, according to Sharon L. Kolasinski, M.D., a professor of clinical medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. Even though the prospect...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/29/rheumatoid-arthritis-11-a_n_789233.html#s193361
Seven Reasons to Stay Home
I think that, as a group, seniors are some of the most surveyed folks out there. Being in the senior home care business I am more acutely aware of the surveys then the normal person and like to see how the results of those surveys match up...
http://www.boomertoboomeronline.ca/2010/08/seven-reasons-to-stay-home/
Who Cares for the Caregivers?
The population in America is shifting as baby boomers age and the "sandwich" generation is feeling more and more pressure to take care of aging parents while raising children...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/april-rudin/who-cares-for-the-caregiv_b_775362.html
Demystifying CCAC
Community Care Access Centres*, or CCACs as they are commonly referred to, are the 'front door' to community-based and in-home health care services in Ontario. Funded by the Ontario government and paid for by your OHIP dollars, CCACs are also the coordinator of placement into long-term care facilities such as retirement and nursing homes...
http://www.boomertoboomeronline.ca/2009/12/demystifying-ccacs/
