Caregiver Blog

This month's article excerpts include deciding when to die, predicting dementia risk, chatbots' vs doctors' empathy, and dental care for people with dementia.[...]

Revisiting the need for Long-Term Care Insurance—will you need it? Should you get it? How many years on average do people need to pay for care? The details.[...]

Suzanne Marriott reflects on caregiving for her father and husband in this guest post based on her memoir, Watching for Dragonflies to be released next month.[...]

PhD candidate, Cynthia Chafin needs your help to complete a Caregiver Self-Care study by mid-June. Also read her self-care tips in this article.[...]

An NZ architect finds inspiration in the Dutch designs for dementia care, blood test for Alzheimer's, preventing falls, ASA's "Dementia and Living Well" [...]

If something doesn't seem right, ask questions, seek expert advice, and then act. Waiting will often be too late to fix potential wrongs.[...]

I asked Microsoft Bing's version of OpenAI's ChatGPT to write about "Humor and caregiving for people with dementia" and then revised my request. [...]

Loved ones who have passed live on for as long as we remember. April 1 marks the 30th anniversary of my mother's passing and I reminisce.[...]

Vitamin D and Dementia, Cognitively Accessible Public Transportation, Brain Aging across the Lifespan, Online Scams, Caregivers Say “No,” Doctors and Caregivers[...]

Paola Barbarino, CEO of ADI and Alireza Atri, MD, of Banner Sun Health Institute, discuss six areas of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia including treatments.[...]

After moving my father from his Wisconsin home of 45 years into my California home, we held an estate sale; that's when the childhood bully returned.[...]

To paraphrase Chaucer—Time waits for no one. We value moments of time greatly when our time may be limited, redirected, or near its end.[...]