A conversation with Dr. Elena Mucci on Frailty. What it is, how to avoid becoming frail. - Frailty is an aging-related physiological decline syndrome characterized by significant vulnerability to adverse health outcomes.

Dame Cicely Saunders is the founder of Palliative care. - We're talking today all about Palliative care. Palliative care focuses on improving the overall wellness of individuals with serious illnesses. It addresses both the symptoms and the stress of ...

  - We're doing aging wrong. Our healthcare system delivers quick interventions that act as band-aids but fail to include the entire family. Our medical model focuses on the body yet neglects the mind and soul; both are essential to our healing and co...

Lacking the knowledge of how to best care for someone with Alzheimer's is common for most family caregivers. Each person is unique, and the disease affects them in their own ways. The differences in how each person reacts to their condition make it mor...

Letting Go With Love - Supporting the dying process for someone with dementia. - How can we manage "letting go with love" when our society views death as a failure? Dying is a process we will all go through, and it is a very personal experience. -

Paperwork isn't sexy - a list of documents caregivers need. - Paperwork isn't sexy, In the eighties, promises of four-day workweeks and paperless offices were made thanks to the desktop computer. This promise has never happened,

Anticipatory grief has benefits of which we're not aware. - Is it normal to feel grief for someone when they're still alive? We may not realize that's what we're feeling. Many people assume it's a form of depression and treat it as such. -

Caregiver Carols - a self-help book in song format - Caregiver Carols A Musical Emotional Memoir is a book with a unique twist. It focuses on dealing with the emotional aspects of caregiving. In this episode, my guest is Don Wendorf, who,

As a new caregiver or one who has been caregiving for a while, you're going to hear how important it is to take care of yourself. Take care of yourself first. I'm sure, like most people, you think, "yeah, right! When am I supposed to do that?"

We never know when it's our time for death. In just over four years, or 2025, the first of over 77 million baby boomers will turn 80. Our 8th decade is when frailty becomes common; memory loss affects 25% of us,