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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Christmas Reflections

I remember many Christmas times as a young child with my parents and grandparents around the Christmas Tree at home. They were simple times when we would open

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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

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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

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