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How to Navigate Your Career While Caring for Aging Parents

Workplace best practices, communication, and support can make family caregiving a win-win for both employers and employees.

Protect your loved ones from senior scams

Use these tips and resources to encourage cyber safety.

Safe Driving Planner

Conversation starters and resources for 4 different stages of senior driving.

Understand Senior Driving Scenarios

Rx Risks Solutions Guide

To help start the conversation with older loved ones, learn about potential medication risks and solutions available.

Review Potential Risks

Bring Your Family Together Once a Month for Sunday Dinner

Sharing meals can help to improve a senior’s quality of life. Pledge to bring back Sunday dinner.

Take the Pledge

Hospitalization Risk Meter

Take a look at some areas that may present low risk, moderate risk or high risk for potential hospitalization.

Learn about Risks

Why you could be at risk for caregiver distress

Caregiving can impact you physically, mentally, and emotionally. How much is the stress affecting you?

Take the Assessment

If you’re over 40, or a parent is over 70…

It’s time to have the "talk" about issues many families want to avoid.

Get Planning Tools

Take a
Room-by-Room
Home Safety Tour

Explore the everyday items that could become hazards to seniors as they age at home.

Begin Home
Safety Tour

Prevent sibling conflict over caring for aging parents

Decisions around caring for a parent can cause sibling conflict—but you can learn to share the care.

How to be prepared for an emergency with your senior

It’s critical to have your loved one’s medical information easily and quickly accessible.

Get Your Senior Emergency Kit

It’s the video that has almost 10 million people laughing

Laughter is truly the best medicine.

Watch the Video

How to plan for a safe return home from the hospital

It can mean the difference between readmission and a full recovery.

Get the Guidelines

How to Prevent Senior Fraud

Help protect your loved one and their assets with the Senior Fraud Protection Kit.

Download Fraud Protection Kit

Caregiver Resources, Articles & Videos

5 Reasons Why a Senior May Not Eat Enough

4 COPD Management Tips for Caregivers (Canada)

Easy Ways to Pull Off Sunday Dinners as a Family (Canada)

New Grant Program Delivers Alzheimer’s Care to Families in Need

4 Fears Surrounding End of Life Care and How to Overcome Them

Intergenerational Activities to Help Reduce Summertime Stress

Caregiving Tips from the Pros: 8 Words of Advice

Aging In Place

Part 5 of 5

Helping Seniors Stay Strong: Caring of the Entire Senior-Mind, Body and Soul (5 of 5)

Unraveling the Home Care Myths

View a list of all caregiver resource topics

Experts & Blogs

Laughing with Mary Maxwell

My Grandfather is Behaving Strangely After the Death of his Wife

CaregiverStress Blog

The Opposite of Failure

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Caregiver Assistance

Through this site, Home Instead Senior Care strives to help you care for your senior loved one through helpful caregiver resources, while helping you spot signs of stress on your emotional and stressful caregiving journey. You’ll get help with family relationships and difficult conversations. You’ll find training and resources on managing conditions such as dementia & Alzheimer’s disease, arthritis, as well as helpful tips and advice on senior housing, safety, nutrition, financial issues, and end-of-life planning.

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