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2025
- Balancing caregiving and work
- Caring for feet
- Sage advice from elders
- Dementia and long-distance caregiving: Building a team
- Anemia in older adults
- What is hospice?
- Digital assistants and older adults
- Time to switch Part D plans?
- Honoring a veteran's story with an audio memoir
- Finding time to grandparent
- Packing a "go bag"
- Reducing the risk of falls
- The long goodbye of anticipatory grief
- What is shingles?
- The powers and limits of HIPAA
- What is an enrichment program?
- Medicare help at home
- Living with essential tremor
- Helping a parent navigate widowhood
- Preparing for cataract surgery
- What is a prepaid debit card?
- Planning a celebration of life
- What is "prediabetes"?
- Choosing a nursing home
- Stress relief: only a breath away
- What is the Platinum Rule?
- Essential tremor: the basics
- Who covers you in an emergency?
- Navigating frustration as a caregiver
- Could it be a misdiagnosis?
- Heart attack warning signs
- Engaging activities for dementia
- Fire escape planning for older adults
- Creating a dementia-friendly home
- Grief about pet loss
- Minimizing the financial impact of caregiving
2024
- Does standing up cause dizziness?
- Five strategies for emotional health
- Creating a safe mail system
- Touch as a lifeline for elders
- Holiday dementia visits
- Age-friendly car features
- Simplifying the holidays
- What is "observation status"?
- Handy gadgets for arthritis
- Reducing and resolving chronic inflammation
- Is assisted living a good fit?
- Suicide and older adults
- How to choose a rollator
- Hope: It's not what you think
- Money tips for low vision
- Listening when a loved one is sad
- "Going home tomorrow?!"
- Signs of chronic inflammation
- Is it hearing loss or dementia?
- Negotiating skills
- "Tech support" scam
- Ride hailing for older adults
- What is "vascular dementia"?
- Sadness isn't all bad
- Home visits are in!
- What is "inflammaging"?
- Adaptive clothing
- Choosing a support group
- Serving as a special needs trustee
- Chronic kidney disease
- Tech support for your relative(s)
- Maybe it's not Alzheimer's
- Dealing with disgust
- Acting as a "human guide"
- Early-onset dementia: Money issues
- Making the most of regret
2023
- Dementia: Navigating the airport
- Choosing a "senior tablet"
- Positive connections with staff
- Information and support
- Financial/legal aspects of caregiving
- Pacing yourself
- Physical therapy and pain relief
- Curbing your perfectionism
- Affordable funerals
- Caring as a stepfamily
- Senior move managers
- Frontotemporal dementia (FTD)
- How is your relative's "social health"?
- Low-vision bathroom
- Adjusting to memory care
- Bringing the hospital home
- What is "healthy selfishness"?
- Dementia: Packing for a trip
- Dementia: Is travel realistic?
- Senior bullying and exclusion
- Meaningful end of life conversations
- Cancer screenings covered by Medicare
- Moving to memory care
- Tinnitus: Ringing in the ears
- Do you strive for perfection?
- Pillbox 2.0
- The care plan and meeting
- Calling a family meeting
- Early-onset Alzheimer's
- Choosing a meal service
- Home modifications for vision loss
- Is it time for memory care?
- If you are not the primary caregiver
- Are you the primary caregiver?
- The yearly "Wellness Visit"
- Where are the paid caregivers?
2022
- Healing torn relations
- Dementia and small children
- Dry eye syndrome
- Honoring family caregivers
- Suppose they don't get better ...
- Not taking meds as directed?
- October is National Crime Prevention Month
- Putting anticipation to work for you
- What is Lewy body dementia?
- Caring with a stepparent
- Could medicines be the culprit?
- Who is who in skilled nursing facilities?
- When grandpa has dementia: Teens and tweens
- The doctor interview
- Noncancer screening tests
- Senior centers: Worth a fresh look
- Combatting dehydration
- Dementia and finances
- Text message scamming: "Smishing"
- Does brain training work?
- Swollen legs and feet
- Living with cancer as a chronic condition
- When you envy others
- Primary care providers
- Cooking tips for the visually impaired
- Organ donation
- Poetry and dementia
- Psychological first aid
- Caregiving apps
- "Chemobrain"
- Signs of an online "sweetheart scam"
- Protecting the house from Medicaid
- Reducing the nausea of chemo
- Friends? Who has time?
- Need a new doctor?
- When your relative is actively dying
2021
- Private pay services for care at home
- Hearing the TV better
- Writing the last chapter
- The special needs of Vietnam-era vets
- Help at home: Community programs
- Holidays without your loved one
- Is Medicare Advantage the best choice?
- Depression after a scary diagnosis
- Too many pills: When less is more
- Not all socks are created equal
- Dealing with anxiety
- Services at home: Medicare
- Learning to forgive yourself
- What is a daily money manager?
- The decision to stop dialysis
- What’s involved in giving care?
- What is a Medicaid spend down?
- Bladder issues
- Signs of financial abuse
- Giving "awesome" new meaning
- Medical management without dialysis
- Transitioning from curative care
- Managing arthritis pain
- How to get durable power of attorney
- Coping with vision loss
- What is "cremation authorization"?
- Time for smart monitoring?
- Maximizing your resources
- When kidneys fail: Dialysis?
- How to read an Explanation of Benefits
- "For better or for worse …"
- Dementia communication: Speaking
- Age-related macular degeneration
- A robo-pet for companionship?
- Slowing the progression of glaucoma
- Problems with hygiene
2020
- "Should we delay that procedure?"
- Leaving a legacy with StoryCorps
- Montessori for people with dementia
- Dementia and communication: Listening
- Video chatting for the "tech challenged"
- "Should we bring Dad home?"