Caregiver Frustration: How to Manage It with Grace
Practical strategies to manage dementia caregiver frustration with calm, clarity, and connection - grounded in expert guidance and real-life scenarios.
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How to Talk to Someone With Dementia: A Caregiver's Guide
Expert-backed ways to talk with a loved one who has dementia, including Teepa Snow's VVT method, validation, and calm redirection.
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Could It Be Dementia? Cognitive, Behavioral, and Subtle Early Clues
Learn the subtle early signs of dementia across cognitive, behavioral, and physical changes. Catching symptoms early can lead to better care, planning, and support for your loved one.
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Meaningful Care Without Medication: Holistic Approaches to Dementia
Learn how therapies like music, movement, reminiscence, and cognitive stimulation can help manage dementia symptoms and improve daily life - no prescription required.
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Understanding Alzheimer's: Signs, Stages, and Care Options
A clear guide to Alzheimer's disease: what it is, how it progresses, treatment options, and how to support a loved one at every stage.
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Understanding Dementia: A Family Guide to Types & Care
A clear, compassionate guide to what dementia is, how it's diagnosed, and the most common types families encounter.
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Understanding the Difference Between Alzheimer’s and Dementia
At Aegis Living, we care for many residents with dementia, including those with Alzheimer’s disease. When referring to a person with memory loss, the terms “dementia” and “Alzheimer’s” are often used interchangeably. So, is there a difference? There is, let us help clarify…
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What Matters at the End of Life
Elder care today is not a simple equation of getting a diagnosis and scheduling treatment. It is more about having a quality of life discussion and how treatment might tip the balance - negatively or positively. Most of us are woefully unprepared to face end-of-life…
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Hearing Loss in Seniors: Causes, Signs, and Help
Learn the causes, warning signs, and treatments for age-related hearing loss, plus the proven link between untreated hearing loss and dementia.
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Gifts for Seniors Using Senses
When looking for a gift for your parent or older spouse, consider their five senses as inspiration - sight, smell, taste, touch, and sound.
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Meet Your Assisted Living Staff
Your loved one has moved to Aegis Living.
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What Is a POLST Form? End-of-Life Orders Explained
A POLST form converts a seriously ill patient's end-of-life wishes into binding medical orders. Here's how it works and who needs one.
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Value of Intergenerational Relationships
Did you know September is Intergeneration Month, a time to intentionally connect generations to communicate age-related gratitude and needs?
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Nursing Care in Assisted Living Communities
When your parent moves to an assisted living community, it is typically because you are concerned that they cannot live on their own due to illness […]
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Supporting Your Family Caregiver
Even in a large family, the role of caregiver often falls to one sibling.
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Answers You Need About Assisted Living
When your mom is no longer able to live on her own it may be time to ask for help.
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Summertime Fun with the Grandparents
Parents today are busy with jam-packed calendars and balancing the commitments of home, work, and children. We look forward to summer break to ease our hectic schedules. Make the most of your free time this summer by bringing your children to visit their grandparents. If your…
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Stop the family feud: Tips to better communicate
It’s a sad truth, but many families find themselves arguing about their aging parent and their care needs. It can be a complicated, stressful, and confusing time for many families. Growing concerns and questions can cause conflict if everyone is not on the same page. Should…
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How to be a medical advocate for your aging parent
As your parent ages, they may begin to slow down not only physically, but also cognitively. They may process things much slower and their comprehension can diminish. Tasks that may have been easy are now a source of frustration and can be confusing to them. This can be…
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Caregiver’s guide to dementia communication
If you are caring for someone with Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia, it is important to take the time to learn how to communicate effectively with them. Improving your communication skills can decrease the stress of caregiving. It can improve your relationship with your…
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5 Helpful Tips to Downsize for Assisted Living
Do your parents still live in the home where you grew up? Are there notches on the door frame that mark your growth as a child? Is there a spot in the backyard where you buried your first goldfish? Do you know where everyone sits at a holiday dinner? Does the kitchen smell of…
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The powerful impact of music on memory care
As you search for the best community for your loved one who requires senior living or Alzheimer’s care, be sure to seek out memory care. Memory care involves many techniques that can keep your loved one happier and healthier. Even when our cognitive faculties begin to go, we…
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Providing compassionate care to your parent with dementia
When a family is faced with a dementia or Alzheimer’s diagnosis, the news can become overwhelming and cause frustration
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Talking to your children about dementia
Dementia is a mental disease that is far-reaching and can affect the entire family, including children and grandchildren. For kids and teens, seeing their grandparents suffer from cognitive decline can be a confusing and upsetting experience. Although the senior affected by…
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Making new friends in senior living: The basics
Getting older can be tough, so it’s important for new assisted living residents to have good friends who can help them along the way. As you know, friendship is one of the most wonderful parts of life, but it can be hard to make new friends when you are in your 70s and 80s. If…
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5 ways to talk with your parent about financial planning
Although finances can be a touchy subject for some, discussing long-term goals and budgeting with your loved one is essential for his or her future. If you notice that your parent’s decision-making skills are slowing due to age or health-related issues, you may need to step in…
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3 easy ways to stay in touch with family
The Internet is a prevalent means of communication and there are many ways that we can stay in touch with family. With smartphones now the norm for many individuals, your parents don’t have to wait to chat with their children and grandchildren or to catch up with an old friend…
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