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Help With Aging Issues
For fifteen years, the Home Instead Senior Care® franchise network has been devoted to providing seniors with the highest quality care in their own homes, and to arming families with the information they need to make the best decisions about caring for aging loved ones. The Get Mom Moving campaign is part of that effort, designed to help seniors stay mentally and physically active, as well as emotionally engaged.
Recommendations and Resources: Caring for Elderly Parents (5 of 5)
The final part of this series covers ideas to help siblings cope with the demands of family caregiving for an aging parent. Including ways to avoid family feuds and offers tips for working together, as well as resources for dealing with sibling conflict that's already happening.
Checklist for Sibling Caregivers: Caring for Elderly Parents (4 of 5)
Part 4 of 5 in this series offers tips for developing a checklist that can help adult siblings better manage the care of their senior loved ones.
Siblings Hot Button Issues: Caring for Elderly Parents (3 of 5)
This video discusses the top issues that cause siblings to struggle when it comes to caring for elderly parents. These include illness of a parent, money matters, inheritance, and others.
Siblings Struggle with Senior Care: Caring for Elderly Parents (2 of 5)
This video discusses research that provides great insights into the issues that siblings face as they try to provide the best care for their aging parents. It also covers the 50-50 Rule—a program designed to help adult siblings improve communication skills.
Caring for Elderly Parents (1 of 5)
This video series introduces the 50-50 Rule® — practical support services to help adult siblings improve communication skills, develop teamwork, make decisions together and divide the workload in caring for aging parents.
De-stress from Caregiving: Caregiver Stress (6 of 6)
This video gives you ways to unwind and cope, because taking care of yourself will allow you to be there for your senior loved one.
Dealing with Alzheimer's: Caregiver Stress (5 of 6)
In this video, certified senior advisor Mary Alexander from Home Instead Senior Care explains Alzheimer's and other dementia and offers specific techniques for coping with a loved one who has dementia.
Caregiver Depression: Caregiver Stress (4 of 6)
In this video, certified senior advisor Mary Alexander from Home Instead Senior Care talks about symptoms of depression in family caregivers and offers six tips for coping -- such as setting reasonable goals and breaking large tasks into small ones.
Signs of Stress: Caregiver Stress (3 of 6)
In this video, certified senior advisor Mary Alexander from Home Instead Senior Care discusses some of the physical and emotional signs that you might be overstressed.
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