Archive for October, 2008

How to Live with an Elderly Person

With the traditional holiday season fast approaching many children and grandchildren will be spending extended visits with their loved ones. Often times the reality of living with an elderly person is daunting and quire frustrating. Here are a few steps towards making the visit a positive experience. Living with the older person has unique rewards [...]

How To Stop Feeling Like Your Life Isn’t Good Enough

In recent times, it seems there are only three measures of success: Money, looks, and fame. If you don’t have one or all of them, you just don’t measure up. But you’re a senior citizen, and it’s hard to feel self-worth, self-respect, and self-esteem when you don’t go to a job, raise children or possibly [...]

How do you tell your parents or grandparents to take better care of themselves?

It’s hard to watch a loved one choose their own suffering. Here’s what to do when your loved one refuses to take good care of themselves. How to Steps: Stop trying to coerce, nag, bully, or talk your family member into taking care of themselves. Doing so never works, it just causes them to rebel [...]