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Alzheimer’s Caregiver – Lessons Learned
Back before Covid was a thing, Cindy interviewed Alzheimer’s Caregiver Phil Smith who frequently attended her Alzheimer’s Support Group meetings. Phil served as a remote caregiver for his Mom and as a personal Family Caregiver for his wife. Times have changed, but the...
Preplanning for Mom | Reasons it’s Necessary
Nobody wants to think about the end, so preplanning is often bypassed. But, what do you do when you are caring for a parent who is beginning to decline? The first step is often to help them get the best quality of care that they need at this Journey Stop in their...
Emotions Surrounding the Nursing Home Decision
Hitting the Wall of Burnout! Most of us deal with our emotions on a daily basis. Some of them are good and some are bad. On a typical day, the good emotions may far outweigh the bad emotions. Sometimes we suppress our emotions - has someone ever said something to you...
Necessary Decisions for Mom | Discussions and Preparations
Discussions Make a Difference! What do you do when you see a parent declining in health? You truly feel they need help, but don’t really know where to start. Today we’re going to talk about working together as a family to make a decision. In situations where the...
Direction | Cardinal Knowledge Shows Us the Way
Up Front Discussions Make a Difference! Something happens to Momma and we react immediately! We are confused but feel called into action so we just start running. We don’t know where, but it’s an emergency, so we start running with no direction. If we stop to ask for...
Pulse Check | Health Examination
Rate vs. Rhythm! Every time I go to the doctor, one of the first things they do is to take my pulse. Guess they still want to know whether I’m alive before they start! Obviously I’m not a medical person, but from my understanding, the act of taking a pulse helps the...
Pivot Plan | When the Belt Breaks
Didn’t See That One Coming! Cindy & I live out of town a bit - just enough to get a taste of farm life. Recently, a man from out of town was baling hay on the neighboring property. He was trying to beat the rain and was a little less than half done when - the main...
“Helper Spouse” Care | Helping the Helper
Saving the Helper Spouse from hitting the wall - or worse! We see the struggling “Helper Spouse” situation almost every week. This is a sad real life situation where one of the spouses starts to decline in physical or cognitive health and the other one tries to take...
Help Mom | The Best Approach for You
Too Much or Too Little Help! Over the years we have seen two basic ways that families look at when providing help for a declining parent. Both ways work and neither are “better than the other”. What works is what’s best for each individual family. Here are the two...
Pride Lesson: Don’t Be Afraid to Ask for Help!
Doing it All Yourself Can Cost You! Recently our dishwasher died. Of course I thought I could fix it myself! After all, how hard could it be anyway? Weeks later, still no clean dishes - at least no clean dishes from the dishwasher! The simple situation was about to...
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Can You Trust Your Trustee?
This is a touchy subject! What happens if you are aging and see that you will soon need help so you give access to your bank accounts to one or more of your adult kids. OR you name them as your POA? OR Trustee of your trust? Then, you start to notice money slipping...
Mom is Worried | Helping Her Plan
Planning for the Worst when Mom is already Worried Susan's Mom is worried... What follows is a fictional (but very typical) situation that we see every week. Susan’s Mom told Susan that she was worried as to what would happen if she developed Alzheimer’s. Mom was very...
Autumn Garden | Out with the Old
Time to Pull Out The Old and Plant the New! The seasons are changing and now it’s time to focus on autumn. Last night, Cindy & I pulled up some of the last remaining recently deceased remnants of the garden that we planted earlier this year. Many of these plants...
Road Trip with Momma? Before You Go…
A few things to remember. Have you began traveling again? I’m just wondering if you have taken a recent road trip or will be... It seemed that, starting in May or June, many felt the bad stuff was over and started to venture out again. Then July and August hit and...
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