From Guilt to Grace on the Long-Term Care Journey
Learn how to move from guilt to grace as you navigate long-term care decisions for a loved one with dementia.
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7 Signs It's Time for Long-Term Memory Care
Seven concrete signs - from medication mix-ups to wandering - that show when a loved one with memory loss needs long-term care.
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Making the Move to Memory Care: Guidance for Families Facing the Next Step
Making the move to memory care is never easy. Learn how to handle resistance, understand transitional trauma, and ensure your loved one has the support they need.
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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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How to Talk to Your Parents About Long-Term Care
A compassionate guide to talking with aging parents about long-term care - what to say, when to start, and how to keep dignity at the center.
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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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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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The 7 Stages of Dementia: What to Expect at Each Step
A clear, stage-by-stage guide to how dementia progresses and how families can plan compassionate care at every step.
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Is It Just a Senior Moment - or Something More?
Not all memory loss is dementia. Learn how to tell the difference between normal age-related forgetfulness and when it may be time to speak with a doctor. Includes checklist and expert advice.
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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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PTSD in Elderly Veterans Years After Service
Is your dad having difficulty sleeping due to nightmares?
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Is it time for your parent to stop driving?
Some of the most difficult talks you can have with an aging parent are those that may make them feel like you are stepping too far into their independence. One of those is “the driving talk.” Although this conversation may be tough, it’s definitely one worth having, especially…
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How Seniors Can Avoid Tax Scams
There are three letters that can strike fear in our hearts - IRS, the Internal Revenue Service. If you were to pick up the phone and a professional voice is stating their official sounding “IRS badge number” to you, would you question it? Would you push your luck with the…
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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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Technology for Seniors
Although there remains a great divide between the older generation and younger Americans adopting technology, that divide is becoming narrower as baby boomers reach retirement age. In fact, with a boom in our aging population on the horizon, this next senior generation owns and…
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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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How to Take Away the Car Keys
Have you driven with your parent lately? Maybe you’ve noticed they’re having troubles with changing lanes, or their reaction time has slowed. Are there are scrapes and dents on the car that hadn’t been there before? Perhaps they’ve forgotten a route home they’ve driven for the…
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The Importance of Staying Hydrated
Pour yourself a tall glass of water to sip while you read this hot topic for seniors on dehydration. The definition of dehydration is that you lose more fluid than you take in. Many of us believe dehydration is prevented by our body’s natural sense of thirst to remind us to…
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9 Signs Your Spouse Needs More Care at Home
Nine warning signs your spouse needs more care at home, with expert guidance on when to bring in respite, assisted living, or memory care.
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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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Warning Signs of a Stroke
Did you know stroke is the leading cause of serious long-term disability and the fifth leading cause of death in the US? And while there’s a greater risk of stroke with age, they can occur at any time. Luckily, strokes are preventable and treatable, if you act F.A.S.T. Stroke…
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10 Early Signs of Dementia Families Notice First
The 10 early signs of dementia families notice first, plus expert guidance on when to see a doctor and plan next steps.
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When to Start Planning for Long-Term Care
The right time to plan for long-term care is your 50s or early 60s, before a health event forces rushed decisions. Here's how to start.
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Making Plans for Your Aging Parents
As children, your parents seem invincible.
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11 Common Aging Health Issues
As we age, we notice more outward signs of the passing years such as deepening wrinkles, pronounced laugh lines, grey hair, or we pick up our reading glasses more frequently.
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From Transitional Care to Memory Care
If your parent is showing mild or early signs of dementia, do they need to move into memory care?
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Early Signs of Dementia: 10 Symptoms Families Notice First
The earliest signs of dementia are subtle - repeated questions, missed bills, trouble following a recipe. Here's what to watch for and when to act.
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Does Alcohol Cause Dementia? What Families Should Know
Heavy drinking can trigger alcohol-related dementia in seniors. Learn the signs, diagnosis, and why early intervention often reverses symptoms.
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Dementia Whisperer: Family Caregivers and Guilt
If you are a caregiver or an adult child concerned about the health of your parent, you may have experienced a common emotion: guilt.
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Holiday Review: Did you notice changes in your parents?
The holidays are over.
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Signs your parent needs care?
It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
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Managing Repetitious Behaviors in a Parent with Dementia
Are you caring for your mom with Alzheimer’s and you’re exasperated by the repetitive questions that she asks over and over?
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Dehydration Concerns for your Parent
Pour yourself a glass of ice-cold water to sip while you read this hot topic on dehydration.
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Aegis Living Brain Health Minute: Teepa Snow #1 of 3
Do you have a loved one showing signs of Dementia?
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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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Vision Loss May Limit Independence
After the age of 40, many of us find we regularly need reading glasses.
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Sundowning: Tips for Managing Difficult Behavior in the Evening
You may be wondering, What is Sundowning?
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Is Your Parent Ready for Assisted Living?
How do you know if your elderly loved one needs to move into an assisted living community?
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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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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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7 Signs Your Mom Needs More Help at Home
Seven concrete signs your mom may need more help at home, with expert guidance on when to consider assisted living or memory care.
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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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Early Signs of Dementia
Has your Mom stopped baking for the holidays?
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Who is Susceptible to Shingles?
If you are the caregiver for your aging parent, it is important to know who is susceptible to shingles.
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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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Summer Safety in the Garden
With the sun shining and the flowers blooming, many seniors will spend their time enjoying one of their favorite outdoor hobbies this summer - gardening. But as you get older, there are precautions that you need to take to enjoy your time in the garden safely. Whether you are…
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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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Are You Concerned About Elderly Pneumonia?
During the winter months, the elderly population is more vulnerable to developing pneumonia from respiratory viruses, related to colds or influenza. Pneumonia is a common and potentially deadly illness, especially for this population. It is currently the eighth leading cause of…
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Flu Season is Around the Corner
It has long been recognized by the medical community that seniors are at a higher risk of serious complications and hospitalization from the flu. Because immune defenses become weaker with age, this elderly age group contains the majority of deaths attributed to influenza. As…
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Games for grandparents to play with grandkids
Helping your children understand why their grandparent is struggling with Alzheimer’s can be tough. There are times when they might feel confused or even frightened by this new phase in the family, but finding ways to make sure that your kids and your loved one spend quality…
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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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‘Still Alice’ draws awareness to Alzheimer’s
Capturing the devastation of Alzheimer’s disease on film has proven to be a difficult task, but a movie new to the screen Jan. 16 has managed to portray this struggle with compassion and tenderness: “Still Alice.” Based on the novel by Lisa Genova, the movie stars Julianne…
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Alzheimer's Tests: How Doctors Diagnose It in 2024
From cognitive screens to PET scans and new blood biomarkers, here's how doctors test for Alzheimer's and what families should expect.
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5 Signs of Dementia
Dementia is a condition that has become all too common for aging Americans.
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