Caring for Your Senior/Elder (01)
Gerontology Research and More
Wayne State University’s Institute of Gerontology is very active in promoting successful, safe aging in Detroit, Michigan, and beyond. This site includes aging and health resources, such as information about the latest aging and health research, outreach programs, handbooks on caregiving and coping with loss as well as working with a senior citizen that needs nursing home or assisted living care. It also includes a section on making the most out of a nursing home visit with a resident that has dementia. Links to the National Institute on Aging and other organizations are included. Most valuable is the research section on aging and health disparities, aging and disabilities and lifespan cognitive neuroscience.
Senior Health: Conditions and Solutions
Regardless of what condition your senior citizen is dealing with, this site provides a variety of topics that lead to useful sites with tips, symptoms, diagnoses and treatment. Topics include senior citizen abuse, alcohol abuse and seniors, Alzheimer’s disease and senility, caring for aging parents, dementia, depression in seniors, drugs and seniors, emotional well-being for seniors, senior citizen fitness, aging and loneliness, foot health for the aging, shingles, sex and older adults, osteoporosis, glaucoma and an array of other conditions and helpful tips and information.
Caring for Elderly Parents: A Foreign Service Family Perspective
How to care for elderly parents is a major concern of many Foreign Service families. Our concerns mirror those of other American families, but how to ensure good health care, find the right living situation, and handle legal questions is often complicated for Foreign Service families by being posted abroad. The distance involved makes it harder to get information and help so contingency planning is essential, states this website. It gives useful tips for talking to elderly parents about their living situations and future care. Includes a useful list of danger signals that indicate a senior may be in trouble, such as increased car accidents, sudden weight loss or bizarre behavior.
Senior Driving: Staying Safe on the Road
Does someone you know have difficulty following instructions and directions, drift into other traffic lanes, stop abruptly without a cause or press on the brake and accelerator at the same time? You may know someone who shouldn’t be on the road. Such is the case for many caregivers or senior citizens. This site includes warning signs of unsafe driving, support and resources of help after the loss of a driver’s license, and tips on how to deal with a family member who shouldn’t drive insists on doing so. Though based in California, this website has valuable information that can be applied anywhere.
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