Embracing Life After Loss: A Journey of Healing and Rebuilding

As the sun rises and sets, life takes us on an unpredictable voyage filled with joy, love, and unexpected turns. For those who have experienced the loss of

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Finding Community and Belonging: My Daily Life in Assisted Living

As a widower in my 70s, I’ve found a new sense of community and belonging at the Assisted Living Community I now call home. After spending the past

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My Family Caregiver | Momma’s Perspective

As an elderly woman, I have lived a long and fulfilling life. I have experienced many joys and sorrows, and I have faced my fair share of challenges.

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Traveling Arkansas: Nursing Home Tour

Updated March 27, 2023 A few years ago, a local TV personality had a show where he traveled the state and closed out each segment with “This is

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Should I put my Parent into the Nursing Home?

Should I put my elderly parent into the Nursing Home? This is a question many people face as their loved ones age and require more care than they

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Coming Home to Find Your Elderly Parent in Decline

Coming home to find your elderly parent in decline can be a difficult and emotional experience. It can be a shock to see someone who has always been

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Can I Trust My Adult Child To Be My Trustee?

This is a touchy subject! Let’s say, for the sake of example, that you realize that you are aging. Yes, nobody wants to admit to getting older, but

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Facility vs. Faculty – Making Your Choice

You Get To Choose! Facility of faculty? Many of our readers caught my boo-boo in a recent edition of Caregiver Connection. Not that this was the first or

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COVID – Should We Avoid Visiting Mom?

The Unwelcomed Surprise We Didn’t See Coming Let me preface this discussion with a disclaimer. I’m not a doctor and have no medical training at all. I’m just

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Journal: The Caregiver’s Best Friend

How a journal can help those in the “In-Between Zone” One thing that I like about modern technology is email. Email is a sort of modern day journal.

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