Finding quality advice for the advanced stages of Alzheimer's can be challenging. Caring for someone with advanced Alzheimer's disease is a challenge. It can make you feel like you're on a hamster

Caring for someone with advanced Alzheimer's disease is a challenge. It can make you feel like you're on a hamster wheel - running in circles, trying the same things over and over with no effect on yo

Breeda Miller, caregiver, author & playright. Breeda Miller was an accidental caregiver. Like most of us, she had no training or medical background. She didn't know what she didn't know. She knew s

Back with us today are Mike & Kim Barnes of Parenting Aging Parents. If you missed their first episode with me, Balancing It All, be sure to listen to that one next. Kim has had to find solutions t

Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on palliating a terminally ill patient's pain and symptoms and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs at the end of life. Hospice care prio

Another story about a caregiver who creates something based on their experiences. His fathers actions inspired founder Art Shaikh before his passing, which moved him to develop new technology. Ar

Over the past five years, Mike and Kim Barnes found themselves navigating problems they never saw coming from their parents: Alzheimer's, pacemakers, COVID pneumonia, and the tough decision to move pa

We want a fix when we get sick or don't feel well. Prescribing more and more medications because we want an immediate fix can cause more problems than they solve. This situation is especially true for

I learned about JellyDrops early on in my podcasting days, but sadly they weren't available outside the United Kingdom at the time. Earlier this year (2022), I started seeing social media posts from f

We all likely have a story about how our medical records are incomplete, not regularly reviewed by our doctor, or something else. It's beyond frustrating that in addition to managing ourselves, we als