The Gift of Routine: How Structure Supports People Living with Dementia
A daily routine can offer stability, comfort, and confidence for people living with dementia. Learn how to build a supportive structure that reduces anxiety and enhances quality of life - for both your loved one and yourself.
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Understanding and Easing Sundowning in Dementia Care
Learn what sundowning is, why it happens, and how caregivers can respond with empathy and structure. Explore practical strategies and discover how Aegis Living supports residents through thoughtful approaches like light therapy.
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8 Conditions That Mimic Dementia (And Are Often Treatable)
Not all memory loss is dementia. Here are 8 treatable conditions that mimic dementia symptoms in older adults, and how to tell them apart.
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Beyond the Diagnosis: How Medications Can Help with Dementia Care
Learn how medications can support dementia care when non-drug therapies aren’t enough. Explore options, benefits, risks, and coordinated care approaches.
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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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How does springtime affect Alzheimer’s?
Seniors with Alzheimer’s disease are heavily affected by fluctuations in their regular routines, and they can experience issues when seasons change. This is a common concern during the onset of winter, which can greatly exacerbate sundowning, an increase in restlessness and…
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Sundowning in Dementia: 4 Ways to Calm Evening Agitation
Sundowning triggers late-day confusion in people with dementia. Use these 4 caregiver strategies to ease evening agitation and restore calm.
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Driving Danger: When to take away your parents keys
Whether your loved one should still be driving a car should be based on their physical and mental condition, not only on their age. Many people in good health can drive in their old age, but there are signs to look for and reasons why driving may not be safe. Understand that…
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Hydration for a Healthy Brain
You learn from a young age the importance of drinking enough water every day. Staying hydrated is essential for balancing bodily fluids, cleansing the body of toxins and maintaining bowel function, but for people with Alzheimer’s, water’s effects on the brain may be the most…
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Six Holiday Planning Tips for Caregivers
During the best of times, the holidays can be overwhelming.
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Signs of Depression in Your Parent
Do they mope around all day?
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What is Sundowning? And why does it occur?
Do you notice a significant change in your dad’s behavior close to dinnertime?
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10 Longevity Tips for Seniors: How to Live Better, Longer
Ten science-backed longevity habits for older adults, from daily movement and Blue Zones eating to sleep, purpose, and social connection.
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Solving Senior Sleep Problems
As you reach for your eyeglasses to read the morning newspaper or think twice about ordering a spicy meal, you may be aware of the physical changes happening to you as you age. Some changes are small and bothersome, while others can greatly affect your daily life. One of the…
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What Family Caregivers Need
Our lives are busy. Most Americans seem to be juggling a family, household chores, working out, eating healthy, full-time employment, and maybe, squeezing in some personal time. Our delicate spinning-plates act can come crashing down when mom suffers a stroke or dad has a bad…
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Seven Myths About Aging
As baby boomers gracefully age into retirement and their next phase of life, we want to dispel some of the common myths about aging. Myths that may keep you up at night worrying needlessly. Your age is a number, just candles on a cake. This number doesn’t take into…
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8 Science-Backed Ways to Reduce Your Alzheimer's Risk
Eight evidence-based habits, from the MIND diet to sleep, exercise, and social connection, that can help lower your Alzheimer's risk.
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Caffeine and its Effect on Seniors
56% of Americans are coffee drinkers and consume an average of 3.1 cups a day.
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Caregivers: Put Yourself First!
Caregivers. First thing’s first. Take a moment to be proud. You’ve taken on the most difficult job you’ve likely ever had, and you deserve recognition. Second, it’s time to talk about self-care. What are you doing for yourself? Are you taking time for self-care? According to a…
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Do’s and Don’ts for Visiting Your Loved One with Dementia
Visiting a loved one with dementia may present interesting challenges. Depending on what stage they are in their dementia diagnosis, a good day can be a joyful reminder of the loved one you’ve always known, while a bad day can be discouraging. It is important to visit a parent…
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Caregivers: Are you taking care of yourself?
A common piece of advice for caregivers is, to effectively take care of others you must first take care of yourself.
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5 Safe Exercises for Seniors: A Doctor-Backed Guide
Five low-impact exercises - walking, tai chi, yoga, swimming, and strength training - proven to boost balance, mood, and fall prevention.
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4 Basic Health Tips for Caregivers and Seniors
With our busy lives and packed schedules, we often forget the basics of good health.
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Follow Your Nose to a Comforting Scent
Out of the blue, it can hit you - a scent that jumps out of your surroundings and instantaneously evokes a memory or feeling.
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Aegis Living Brain Health Minute with Teepa Snow #3 of 3
Aegis Living is proud to present this three part series of Aegis Brain Health Minutes featuring one of the world’s leading dementia educators appearing at Aegis Living, Teepa Snow.
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Touring an Assisted Living Community at Different Times of the Day
Perhaps your mom has lost a significant amount of weight recently because she is no longer cooking and her cupboards are bare.
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Sundowning: Tips for Managing Difficult Behavior in the Evening
You may be wondering, What is Sundowning?
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Top Tips for Seniors During Allergy Season
The sun is shining, flowers are in bloom, trees are leafing out, and the bees are buzzing.
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Changes in Your Sleep Patterns
Daylight savings time means moving our clocks ahead and losing an hour of sleep.
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Stay Young at Heart Through Healthy Hobbies
What is the key to staying young at heart? Keep playing as you get older.
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Wear Red for Heart Health Awareness
Lay out your red dress, dust off your red heels, or press your red blouse, in February we recognize National Wear Red Day for heart health.
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A Holistic Approach for Dealing With Holiday Stress
No sooner have we placed the leftover turkey and stuffing in the refrigerator, then we are off searching for the perfect holiday presents, wrapping gifts, and baking treats.
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Oral Health for Seniors
As we pile our plates high with turkey, stuffing, and mashed potatoes this Thanksgiving, we wanted to remind you about an often-overlooked health issue for many seniors - oral health.
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The Benefits of a Daily Routine for People with Dementia
If you are a caregiver of someone with Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia, now may be a good time to create a daily routine for both you and your loved one. There are many benefits to creating a daily routine for both the caregiver and person with Alzheimer’s or…
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Caregiving: The Detrimental Health Effects of Chronic Stress
As a caregiver, do you take proper care of yourself? The chronic stress attributed to the caregiver of an elderly spouse or family member can have significant negative effects on your health and longevity. Your health and stress level should not be ignored. Striking a balance…
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The Discomfort of Aging Skin Issues
Your real age can be betrayed by your skin. Wrinkles, dry skin, age spots, and bruising can all be signs of the years written on the face, arms, hands, and legs of seniors. It is a natural part of the aging process for your skin to change as you age. But skins issues that cause…
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Four Common Myths About Pain and the Elderly
Many of our elderly quietly endure pain on a daily basis. They make excuses from their pain or deny they are in pain to their family members or caregivers. Pain should not disrupt your daily activities or diminish your quality of life. And caregivers need to be vigilant and…
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Reasons Behind Disrupted Sleep
As we age, we experience many physical changes from needing reading glasses for the morning newspaper to being less able to tolerate spicy food, but there is one significant change that can truly affect your personal well-being and happiness - sleep. It is normal that our sleep…
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Post-holiday assessment: Should your senior parent live alone?
You have made it through the holidays. The gift wrapping, shopping, family dinners, travel, and sleep deprivation.
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Dementia: 8 Tips for Celebrating the Holidays Together
The holidays can be stressful during the best of times, but layer on the responsibilities of caring for a loved with Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia and your holiday season can be quickly overwhelming. Don’t lose the magic of the holiday season, but take some steps to…
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Dr. Shirley Newell - Brain Health
Aegis Living Chief Medical Officer Dr. Shirley Newell, a national leader in the assisted-living industry, discusses what you can do to optimize brain health. In some cases, it can be as simple as getting a good night’s sleep. Dr. Newell: The positive things you can do for your…
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Is it time to think about assisted living?
Denial is the most common reason people wait until a fall, injury or illness before they start to seek information on assisted living. So what are the signs that your parent may need help before an emergency happens? Even when you know your parent could use some extra help…
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Are anxiety medications linked to Alzheimer’s?
As the medical community continues to delve further into the field of Alzheimer’s diagnosis and treatment, scientists and doctors have been proposing new potential causes. According to Harvard Health Publishing, reports link two common classes of drugs to dementia…
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Healthy eating for mental wellness
We all know the foods we eat have an effect on every part of the body. A balanced, nutritious diet provides you with energy for physical activity but also promotes cognitive function, a healthy sleep schedule and better control over your emotions. Poor eating habits can lead to…
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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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Foods that can disrupt your parent’s sleep schedule
Sleep is one of the most underrated aspects of our well-being, especially during our senior years. Having a restless night every once and a while is completely normal for most people. However, a prolonged period without a good night’s rest can have a major impact on overall…
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What to pack for a move to an assisted living community
When preparing to move your parent into an assisted living facility, you will need to make yet another decision: what to pack and what to discard. Moving can be a tough transition no matter your age, but especially for seniors who want to hang onto all of their belongings…
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