When your senior years are approaching, one natural instinct is to get your affairs in order so if your time to leave this life comes along "before expected", your estate is ready to go. (…)

Have you ever heard the phrase, "The 200 pound gorilla in the room"? It's a phrase that refers to a topic that nobody talks about but it so dominates everybody's thoughts. (…)

How do you go about comforting a friend who has lost someone close? This is a question that haunts people of any age bracket. (…)

The job of becoming the primary caregiver for your aging parent is universally recognized as one of the most difficult transitions we will go through. (…)

Family is important. (…)

Sometimes when you and your elderly parent are partnering for their care, it seems like an "us against the world" situation. (…)

You may remember what it was like to raise teenagers. They seem to go into a funk at the age of 13 and stay that way until they have kids of their own. (…)

When you were growing up, your parents were your care givers. They made sure you were safe, well fed, clothed had medical care and that the money was there for the things you needed. (…)

There are a lot of things we look forward to when we prepare for a life of retirement and those "golden years" of being a senior citizen. (…)

"Old people need a lot of pills."
That was an observation the grandson of my adult parent observed about his Granddad. (…)

It's a dark side of being a senior citizen that you are going to face a higher incidence of people dying than you may have seen in other eras of your life. (…)

There is something very self absorbed about the caregiver to senior citizen relationship. (…)

Resentment and unforgiveness can be destructive things to let stay in your heart. (…)

Have you ever had that aggravation that you go over to your aging parents apartment or house to help with the housework and get some serious "care giving" done and the senior himself seems to be bent on stopping your progress? (…)

You may be able to remember that year when the last of your kids moved out. That first year that you are "empty nesters" had a lot of adjustments. (…)

Sometimes when you have a very consuming problem, it can so take over your life that you forget the rest of life's responsibilities and relationships. (…)

Back in the nineteen sixties when the rock and roll was just getting started, there was this little old rock and roll band out of England that got some attention. You may have heard of them. (…)

Sometimes a caregiver is a combination of maid, doctor, spiritual advisor and amateur detective. (…)

Life is full of transitions. And your transition from a busy adult life to the more relaxed lifestyle of retirement and senior citizen status has its fair share of adjustments too. (…)

If the job of being a caregiver only involved giving help to your aging parent such as doing the dishes and helping fill out the Medicare paperwork, your life would be considerably easier. (…)