Before you feel totally exhausted with no energy to care for your senior parents, maybe you’ve gotten a signal that you need a POParenting Break(POPbreak). Here are 5 tips to help you take that break and really use it well: 1. Decide how long of a break you need: If
Sometimes the symptoms of a UTI, especially with our aging Mom’s, look a lot like the signs of dementia or Alzheimer’s. She may display: Confusion Falling Hallucinations Dizziness Agitation If you think you or a loved one might be experiencing a UTI, take a look at these other common warning
Although POParenting may sound very altruistic, the irony is that caring for our aging loved ones teaches us many new things about ourselves along the way. Much like parenting children, those of us who’ve begun to POParent are discovering much about ourselves, such as: what skills and qualities do I
If you’re a senior or someone POParenting, you may be weighing the options of you or your parents moving into a retirement community. With so many different options out there, how do you know which is best for you? Here are the first factors to think about when making this
Do YOU take enough time for yourself — to rest and refresh you — when you’re the major (or even minor?) provider of care to your elderly parents? Many POParents find it particularly challenging to balance tending to our own needs when tending to the needs of our senior parents.
Helping your parents to organize — or re-organize — their finances may not be something that’s atop your bucket list. Nonetheless you, like many POParents, may be noticing you have to deal with these issues and see that you need some real specific guidance. First things first! That means either
View image | gettyimages.com Check out this incredible story of the World’s Oldest Woman who turned 117 years old yesterday. She is one of the five documented people who are still living and born in the 1800s. In case you are wondering what she has
Recently Jane Wolf Waterman, founder and CEO of www.ParentingOurParents.org, and author of “OH MY GOD! WE’RE PARENTING OUR PARENTS: How this Remarkable Challenge can be Transformed into a Journey of Love” was interviewed by Patricia Mitchell of Carers World Radio. In the interview, Jane shares how her coaching program is
Do you or your aging parents struggle with changes? Do you or they find change hard to accept, especially when that change might involve moving out of the familiarity of home and into a facility where they might even get better care than they’re getting in their home from you
What if you and I could apply some of the more effective methods we learned Parenting Our Kids to Parenting Our Parents (POP)? When we parented our kids, we had to come to grips with power struggles, their need for our attention, the repetition of drives to/from, to/from school and